Books written by Jane Yolen

  • Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People
    Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People

    Some of the world's greatest speculative fiction authors explore these roads not taken, and many others, in Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People, the first-ever anthology of Jewish alternate history fiction.

  • You Nest Here With Me
    You Nest Here With Me

    This lyrical bedtime book is an ode to baby birds everywhere and to sleepy children, safe in their beds.

  • My Father Knows the Names of Things
    My Father Knows the Names of Things

    Rhyming text depicts a father sharing with his child such things as seven words that all mean blue and the name of every kind of cloud.

  • Roanoke, the Lost Colony: An Unsolved Mystery from History
    Roanoke, the Lost Colony: An Unsolved Mystery from History

    In this spine-tingling book from the nonfiction An Unsolved Mystery from History picture book series, journey to colonial America and discover the enduring mystery of the missing Roanoke Colony.

  • Birds of a Feather
    Birds of a Feather

    Fortunately, award-winning writer Jane Yolen and photographer Jason Stemple once again give readers the chance to closely observe a brand-new flock of these creatures in expertly rendered poetry and photographs.

  • Johnny Appleseed: The Legend and the Truth
    Johnny Appleseed: The Legend and the Truth

    But the true story of Johnny Appleseed, or John Chapman, is even greater than the legend. In deft and lyrical prose, Jane Yolen tells the whole story of an individual who forever changed the landscape of America.

  • The Stranded Whale
    The Stranded Whale

    When Sally and her brothers spot a beached whale on their way home from school in Maine, the town races to save the it. Meanwhile, Sally sits close to the whale's eye and assures the stranded creature of its strength and beauty.

  • Things that Go Bump in the Night: A Collection of Original Stories
    Things that Go Bump in the Night: A Collection of Original Stories

    A collection of original stories about the noises, dreams, and shadows of the night that frighten and beguile the imagination.

  • On Bird Hill
    On Bird Hill

    From iconic children's author Jane Yolen, and renowned illustrator Bob Marstall, this stunning picture book is the first in a new Jane Yolen series created for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the world authority on birds.

  • On Gull Beach
    On Gull Beach

    " --School Library Journal "A sweetly surreal meditation on the everyday wonders that await in the wild." --Publisher's Weekly Listen to the birds in this book with Bird QR. DOWNLOAD FREE on iTunes and Android stores.

  • Cut from the Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend, and Tall Tale
    Cut from the Same Cloth: American Women of Myth, Legend, and Tall Tale

    A collection of twenty stories about legendary American women, drawing from folktales, popular stories, and ballads.

  • The Leather Apron Club: Benjamin Franklin, His Son Billy & America's First Circulating Library
    The Leather Apron Club: Benjamin Franklin, His Son Billy & America's First Circulating Library

    Careful readers will notice that the story cleverly incorporates famous sayings from Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack, underscoring the lasting impact of words.

  • The Scarecrow's Dance
    The Scarecrow's Dance

    Humbled, the scarecrow knows what he has to do: He returns to the field and watches over the corn as only he can. Masterfully told, with illustrations by award winner Bagram Ibatoulline, this book has all the makings of a new classic.

  • Briar Rose
    Briar Rose

    Becca would have sworn the stories were made up, but on her deathbed Gemma extracts from Becca a promise to fulfill three impossible requests: find the castle, find the prince, and find the spell-maker.

  • How Do Dinosaurs Eat Cookies?
    How Do Dinosaurs Eat Cookies?

    Dinosaurs prepare, enjoy the aromas of, and snack on chocolate chip, strawberry, and cinnamon cookies. On board pages.

  • Dream Weaver
    Dream Weaver

    "Here are seven compelling fantasies to haunt the memory and stir the imagination. the Dream Weaver, a blind gypsy storyteller, spins tales that are rooted in the familiar but which,...

  • Mrs. Noah's Doves
    Mrs. Noah's Doves

    Mrs. Noah kept birds.

  • The Boy who Had Wings
    The Boy who Had Wings

    The wings he is born with give a young boy nothing but unhappiness until he flies over the mountain to rescue his herdsman father.

  • Curse of the Thirteenth Fey: The True Tale of Sleeping Beauty
    Curse of the Thirteenth Fey: The True Tale of Sleeping Beauty

    The orange light had come back on again, so I shuffled toward it. I was careful to go slowly so as not to trip over anything—or anyone—this time, and hoped no one would see me. The fire was seductive, and I was so cold, I curled up by ...

  • Bad Girls: Sirens, Jezebels, Murderesses, Thieves and Other Female Villains
    Bad Girls: Sirens, Jezebels, Murderesses, Thieves and Other Female Villains

    In BAD GIRLS, readers meet twenty-six of history’s most notorious women, each with a rotten reputation. But authors Jane Yolen and Heidi Stemple remind us that there are two sides to every story. Was Delilah a harlot or hero?