There is quite a lot of material on the Web describing how my books can be used in teaching. Here are a number of links to information of potential use to teachers. Please note that the purpose of listing here is not to endorse but to inform. I am also providing the opportunity to share your ideas and experiences of working with my books with other teachers and librarians.

MATERIALS FOR TEACHING — a list of lesson plans, discussion guides, quizzes, and more for use with Jane’s books.

A MYTH-WRITING WORKSHOP from Writing with Writers.

INTERVIEWS WITH JANE

SOME INTERESTING SITES FOR TEACHERS AND LIBRARIANS

MISCELLANY

A video of my Andrew Lang Lecture at St. Andrews University—the first women to ever give one.

An article discussing, inter alia, a visit to Penn State by Patty Maclachlan and me.

“The Children’s Writer: Jane Yolen”
from ReelLife Productions
1-800-838-7505
running time–54 minutes
produced 1996 (but shot several years earlier)

A straight-forward conversation/interview with me in my home in Massachusetts about writing children’s books.

Good Conversations: A Talk with Jane Yolen
Tim Podell Productions
1-800-642-4181
produced 1998

This is a delightful video interview of me in Scotland, as I take the camera crew and Tim Podell on a walkabout of St Andrews and read from a Scottish-set story of mine on a fifteenth century seawall overlooking Anstruther Harbor.

© 2000 by Jane Yolen