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Cover of Welcome to the Green House by Jane Yolen

Welcome to the Green House

This book about the rain forest in occasional rhyme began when one of the Save the Rain forest groups asked me to write a book for Laura Regan to illustrate. I adored her bold, color-drenched work. But I said they needed to find a publisher before I’d start. I knew there would be lots and lots of research ahead.

Cover of Songs of Summer by Jane Yolen, Musical Arrangements by Adam Stemple

Songs of Summer

The second of four music books I did for Boyds Mills. Adam was wonderful to work with, shipping me off the simple arrangements which I then played on the piano. We figured if I could sight read them, ANYONE could! I picked the songs, wrote the historical notes. Adam did all the musical arrangements.

Cover of Here There Be Dragons by Jane Yolen

Here There Be Dragons

Short stories and poems, all written by me, having to do with dragons. This was the first of the five HERE THERE BE. . .books. Since I’d already written many dragon short stories, I only needed to write one new one–a Chinese dragon story. Included here is “Cockfight,” which started the Pit Dragon Trilogy

Coer of Honkers by Jane Yolen

Honkers

Pat Gauch at Philomel wanted me to write a follow-up book for John Schoenherr after our success with OWL MOON. I wrote this book in the first person hoping it had the same tone. Perspicacious readers will note that the book is not illustrated by Schoenherr (he was already at work on a goose book)

Cover of Raining Cats and Dogs by Jane Yolen

Raining Cats and Dogs

I am a cat person. My husband is a dog person. We’ve owned both and so these poems are from experience! And no–there is no mistake. Half the book is upside down so you can start from either end, depending upon whether you prefer cats or dogs. Janet Street’s uproarious pictures are right on beat!

Cover of Weather Report by Jane Yolen

Weather Report

More than fifty weather related poems from poets as various as Carl Sandberg, Robert Frost, Eve Merriam, Lilian Moore, Ralph Fletcher, Emily Dickinson and four new poems by me, too. My poems are “Weather Report” (which has been quoted by local weather men on tv), “An Awkward Arrangement”

Cover of What Rhymes With Moon? by Jane Yolen

What Rhymes With Moon?

This is a book of poems all about the moon. Ruth’s warm and loving illustrations are a real highlight of the book. (See “Old Dame Counterpane” for more about her work.) A few of the poems were reprints, but most are original to this book.

Cover of Storyteller by Jane Yolen

Storyteller

A collection of my stories, poems, and essays (a few whose only publication is in this volume), this was produced in a small press limited edition by the good folks who run Boskone, the premier Boston science fiction convention. It is a limited edition of 1000, of which 8 are lettered and slipcased, the first 200 numbered

Cover of Briar Rose by Jane Yolen

Briar Rose

The idea for an adult novel on the subject of the Holocaust came to me when I was watching the documentary “Shoah” in which the concentration camp Chelmno was described. It was a camp in a castle. Castle, barbed wire, and the gassing of innocent folk. It suggested the fairy tale “Sleeping Beauty” in a horrible way.

Cover of A Letter from Phoenix Farm by Jane Yolen and Jason Stemple

Letter from Phoenix Farm, A

The editor at Owens, a small educational publisher, asked me if I’d like to write a picture book autobiography for a newly created line of photo books. I said only if my son Jason, a professional photographer, could do the photos. She agreed readily, loved his work, and so Jason’s first book was published.