Books written by Jane Yolen

Sword of the Rightful King: A Novel of King Arthur

A Booklist Editors’ Choice ABA’s Pick of the Lists A Parent’s Guide Children’s Media Award Winner “Yolen takes elements of Arthurian legend and makes them her own in this involving novel.”—Booklist (starred review) “[A] page ...

The Flying Witch

Vladimir Vagin's remarkably detailed borders and intricate scenes will give readers chills and laughs as they read this witty tale.

Meow: Cat Stories from Around the World

Paintings of more than fifty different cats in their native homes enhance a collection of cat stories, sayings, and nursery rhymes from Tibet, Oman, India, Scotland, the United States, and more.

Sleep, Black Bear, Sleep

When winter's snow creates a soft blanket of silence, nothing is more comforting than curling up under a cozy quilt.

The Flying Witch

Vladimir Vagin's remarkably detailed borders and intricate scenes will give readers chills and laughs as they read this witty tale.

The Dragon's Boy

"In order to gain wisdom, you must learn to read inter linea, between the lines.

The Firebird

The result is a seamlessly woven multilayered tapestry of story and art that will make this book a treasure for ballet lovers new and old.

Milk and Honey: A Year of Jewish Holidays

Relates customs and stories and offers poems, songs with piano and guitar accompaniment, and a play for each holiday of the Jewish calendar year

Dragons & Dreams: A Collection of New Fantasy and Science Fiction Stories

A collection of ten science fiction and fantasy stories by authors such as Patricia A. McKillip, Jane Yolen, and Diane Wynne Jones.

Tea with an Old Dragon: A Story of Sophia Smith, Founder of Smith College

A picture book introduces children to a female pioneer of higher education for women in mid-nineteenth-century New England, a remarkable woman who founded Smith College, the alma mater of the author and the illustrator.

Pretty Princess Pig

Follows Pretty Princess Pig as she gets ready to throw a party by painting the dining room, baking, and digging up flowers.

Mama's Kiss

Told in jaunty verse, award-winning Jane Yolen's clever fantasy offers warm and witty affirmation that it is indeed love that makes the world go round.

Sleeping Ugly

This morality tale about Plain Jane, beautiful inside but ugly in appearance, and Princess Miserella, beautiful but nasty, involves a misunderstanding with a fairy and a hundred-year sleep

Sleeping Ugly

Ring of Earth: A Child's Book of Seasons

The beauty of the seasons is shown through the eyes of nature. The circle of seasons is presented in a poetic way--deeply rooted to the earth and connected to nature.

The Bloody Tide: Poems about Politics and Power

Jane Yolen's spirited poems of political protest are an impassioned call for social justice, equality, peace in a troubled world.

Pay the Piper: A Rock 'n' Roll Fairy Tale

A rock 'n' roll band to die for?

Tam Lin

Letting Swift River Go