Author of over 400 Books for Children and Adults
with John Patrick PazdzioraIllustrated by Lyndsay Roberts RayneAlbert Whitman & Company (September 7, 2023)ISBN: 0807574848ISBN-13: 978-0807574843 Smout and the Lighthouse is a story about the wonderful writer Robert Louis Stevenson as a boy. His entire family created lighthouses up and down the Scottish Coast and elsewhere. They were known as The Lighthouse Stevensons. But even …
Reycraft Books (March 7, 2023)ISBN: 1478876115ISBN-13: 978-1478876113 A short middle grade novel based on the old Jewish tales of the imaginary town of Chelm where everyone is a dim-wit and dummy except for one man named Schlimiel who decides to move to America where he finds some folk as silly and dumb as in Chelm. …
Illustrated by Joëlle DreidemySimon Spotlight (August 29, 2023)ISBN: 1665914424ISBN-13: 978-1665914420 Interrupting Cow and the Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing is the latest (and probably the last) in the easy reading series based on the well known joke about the Interrupting Cow that my darling grandaughter, Ari Stemple, (they are also a published writer) used to tell …
Illustrated by Tomie dePaola Aladdin (February 7, 2023) ISBN 10: 153448857X ISBN 13: 978-1534488571 The Giants’ Farm began when my husband and I bought an old farm and fourteen acres in Hatfield, MA some 50 years ago. I wanted to call it Fe-Fi-Fo Farm. My husband and our three children were mortified. He suggested Phoenix …
KIKKI KICKS is my first book with grandchild Ari Stemple who also writes poetry, stories, comic books, song lyrics (and music).
The poem is mine, celebrating the martial arts, but the story itself was written by Ari and me, re-calling Ari’s trials when they were badly bullied in school…
From the publisher: We’re delighted to announce that The Last Robot, our chapbook collection of Jane Yolen’s science fiction poetry, has been nominated for the Elgin Awards. Many congratulations to Jane Yolen, and to Russell Jones who edited the collection. The Last Robot is amongst some fine company, as you can see in the List of Nominations for the …
I first read about the horseback librarians in a newspaper article, and carried the idea for a long while in my heart. Then a picture book came out about them for children and I set the idea aside. It took me another ten or more years before I tried my own version, following a single (made up) librarian and giving a paragraph footnote at the books’ end about the real Appalachian horseback librarians
What to Do with A Stick is the third book in a series of picture books, after What To Do With A Book, and What to Do with a String. Each book has a different illustrator and is in rhyme. Great for reading aloud to a child, stretches the imagination, and I had a wonderful time writing them.
Hello Readers! Heidi here! Every Wednesday, I’ll be asking JY a question (two if they are short). The questions might involve advice for writers, fun facts for students, or just reminiscing about a career that has spanned more than 60 years in the publishing world. Every time we teach together, I hear people whisper about …