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Jane Yolen

(Jane Hyatt Yolen Stemple)

(1939 - )

About Jane Yolen

Jane Yolen is one of the acknowledged masters of fantasy today. She is the author of more than two hundred books for children and adults. Her young adult novel The Devil's Arhtmetic won the Jewish Book Council Award. Her children's book Owl Moon, illustrated by John Schoenherr, was awarded the Caldecott Medal; her fantasy novels Sister Light, Sister Dark and White Jenna were both short-listed for the Nebula; and she's won the Nebula twice for short stories. She has also won the World Fantasy Award, the Christopher Medal twice, and the Golden Kite Award. She has written two previous books in the Young Heroes series with Robert J. Harris, Odysseus in the Serpent Maze and Hippolyta and the Curse of the Amazons. Jane Yolen lives with her husband in western Massachusetts and St. Andrews, Scotland.

Series

Isabel the Witch
The Witch Who Wasn't (1964)
Isabel's Noel (1967)

Giants
The Giants' Farm (1977)
The Giants Go Camping (1979)

Robot and Rebecca
The Mystery of the Code Carrying Kids (1980)
The Mystery of the Missing Owser (1981)

Spider Jane
Spider Jane on the Move (1980)

Pit Dragons
1. Dragon's Blood (1982)
2. Heart's Blood (1984)
3. A Sending of Dragons (1987)
4. Dragon's Heart (2009)
The Pit Dragon Trilogy (omnibus) (1998)

Piggins
Piggins (1987)
Picnic with Piggins (1988)
Piggins and the Royal Wedding (1989)

Books of the Great Alta
1. Sister Light, Sister Dark (1988)
2. White Jenna (1989)
3. The One-Armed Queen (1998)
The Books of Great Alta (omnibus) (1997)

Here There Be...
Here There Be Witches (1995)
Here There Be Angels (1996)

Young Merlin
1. Passager (1996)
2. Hobby (1996)
3. Merlin (1997)
The Young Merlin Trilogy: Passager, Hobby, and Merlin (omnibus) (2004)

Tartan Magic
1. The Wizard's Map (1999)
2. The Pictish Child (1999)
3. The Bagpiper's Ghost (2002)

Stuart Quartet (with Robert J Harris)
1. Queen's Own Fool: A Novel of Mary Queen of Scots (2000)
2. Girl in the Cage (2002)
3. Prince Across the Water (2004)
4. The Rogues (2007)

Young Heroes
1. Odysseus in the Serpent Maze (2001) (with Robert J Harris)
2. Hippolyta and the Curse of the Amazons (2002) (with Robert J Harris)
3. Atalanta and the Arcadian Beast (2003) (with Robert J Harris)
4. Hippolyta and the Lost Amazon City (2003) (with Robert J Harris)
Jason and the Gorgon's Blood (2004)

Rock'n' Roll Fairy Tale (with Adam Stemple)
Pay the Piper (2005)
Troll Bridge (2006)

Foiled
1. Foiled (2010)
2. Curses! Foiled Again (2013)

Novels

Trust a City Kid (1966) (with Anne Huston)
The Inway Investigators (1969)
The Wizard of Washington Square (1969)
Hobo Toad and the Motorcycle Gang (1970)
The Transfigured Hart (1975)
The Lady and the Merman (1976)
The Mermaid's Three Wisdoms (1978)
Dream Weaver (1979)
The Boy Who Spoke Chimp (1981)
Uncle Lemon's Spring (1981)
The Gift of Sarah Barker (1981)
Shirlick Holmes and the Case of the Wandering Wardrobe (1981)
Brothers of the Wind (1981)
The Acorn Quest (1981)
The Stone Silenus (1984)
Cards of Grief (1984)
The Devil's Arithmetic (1988)
The Dragon's Boy (1990)
Wizard's Hall (1991)
Briar Rose (1992)
Children of the Wolf (1993)
And Twelve Chinese Acrobats (1995)
The Wild Hunt (1995)
Once upon a Bedtime Story (1997)
Twice Upon a Time (1998)
The Seaman (1998)
Armageddon Summer (1998) (with Bruce Coville)
Boots and the Seven Leaguers (2000)
Sword of the Rightful King: A Novel of King Arthur (2003)
Naming Liberty (2008)
The Scarecrow's Dance (2009)
Except the Queen (2010) (with Midori Snyder)
The Last Dragon (2011) (with Rebecca Guay)
Snow in Summer: Fairest of Them All (2011)
Curse of the Thirteenth Fey: The True Tale of Sleeping Beauty (2012)
Bad Girls: Sirens, Jezebels, Murderesses, Thieves, and Other Female Villains (2013) (with Heidi E Y Stemple)
B.U.G. (Big Ugly Guy) (2013) (with Adam Stemple)

Collections

The Girl Who Cried Flowers (1974)
The Moon Ribbon: And Other Tales (1976)
The Hundredth Dove: And Other Tales (1977)
Dragonfield: And Other Stories (1985)
Merlin's Booke (1986)
Tales of Wonder (1987)
The Faery Flag (1989)
Hark! A Christmas Sampler (1991)
Storyteller (1992)
Here There Be Dragons (1993)
How Beastly (poems) (1994)
Here There Be Unicorns (1994)
Among Angels (poems) (1995) (with Nancy Willard)
Water Music (poems) (1995)
Sister Emily's Lightship: And Other Stories (1997)
Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Stories (1997)
Here There Be Ghosts (1998)
Dear Mother, Dear Daughter: Poems for Young People (poems) (2001) (with Adam Stemple and Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple)
The Fish Prince: And Other Stories (2001) (with Shulamith Oppenheim)
Least Things (poems) (2003)
The Radiation Sonnets (poems) (2003)
Barefoot Book of Stories from the Ballet (2004) (with Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple)
Fine Feathered Friends: Poems for Young People (poems) (2004)
Fairy Tale Feasts: A Literary Cookbook for Young Readers and Eaters (2006)
Shape Me a Rhyme (poems) (2007) (with Jason Stemple)
The Barefoot Book of Ballet Stories (2009) (with Rebecca Guay and Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple)
An Egret's Day (poems) (2009)
A Mirror to Nature: Poems About Reflection (poems) (2009)
Birds of a Feather (poems) (2011)
Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers: A Life of Marc Chagall in Verse (poems) (2011) (with J Patrick Lewis)
What You Wish For: A Book for Darfur (2011) (with Jeanne DuPrau, Nikki Giovanni, John Green, Karen Hesse, Alexander McCall Smith, Naomi Shihab Nye, Joyce Carol Oates and Sofia Quintero)
Things to Say to a Dead Man: Poems at the End of a Marriage and After (poems) (2011)
The Last Selchie Child (poems) (2012)
Wee Rhymes: Baby's First Poetry Book (poems) (2013)

Chapbooks

The Adventures of Eeka Mouse (1974)
The Whitethorn Wood and Other Magicks (1984)

Picture Books

See This Little Line (1963)
Gwinellen, the Princess Who could Not Sleep (1965)
The Minstrel and the Mountain (1967)
The Emperor and the Kite (1967)
The Longest Name On the Block (1968)
Greyling (1968)
It All Depends (1969)
The Seventh Mandarin (1969)
The Bird of Time (1971)
The Girl Who Loved the Wind (1973)
The Boy Who Had Wings (1974)
Rainbow Rider (1974)
The Little Spotted Fish (1975)
Hands (1976)
Milkweed Days (1976)
An Invitation to the Butterfly Ball (1976)
Hannah Dreaming (1977)
The Seeing Stick (1977)
The Sultan's Perfect Tree (1977)
Spider Jane (1978)
No Bath Tonight (1978)
The Simple Prince (1978)
All in the Woodland Early: An Abc Book (1979)
Mice on Ice (1980)
Commander Toad in Space (1980)
Dragon Night and Other Lullabies (1980)
Sleeping Ugly (1981)
Commander Toad and the Planet of the Grapes (1982)
Commander Toad and the Big Black Hole (1983)
Commander Toad and the Dis-Asteroid (1985)
Commander Toad and the Intergalactic Spy (1986)
The Lullaby Songbook (1986)
The Sleeping Beauty (1986)
Ring of Earth (1986)
Too Old for Naps (1987)
The Three Bears Rhyme Book (1987)
Owl Moon (1987)
Commander Toad and the Space Pirates (1987)
Best Witches (1989)
Dove Isabeau (1989)
The Laptime Song and Play Book (1989)
Baby Bear's Bedtime Book (1990)
Dinosaur Dances (1990)
Bird Watch: A Book of Poetry (1990)
Elfabet: An ABC of Elves (1990)
Sky Dogs (1990)
Tam Lin (1990)
All Those Secrets of the World (1991)
Merlin and the Dragons (1991)
Wings (1991)
Street Rhymes Around the World (1992)
Eeny, Meeny, Miney Mole (1992)
Encounter (1992)
Letting Swift River Go (1992)
A Letter from Phoenix Farm (1992)
Mouse's Birthday (1993)
Welcome to the Green House (1993)
Jane Yolen's Songs of Summer (1993)
Honkers (1993)
Raining Cats and Dogs (1993)
What Rhymes with Moon? (1993)
Sleep Rhymes Around the World (1994)
Animal Fare (1994)
Little Mouse and Elephant (1994)
Grandad Bill's Song (1994)
Beneath the Ghost Moon: A Halloween Tale (1994)
The Girl in the Golden Bower (1994)
Old Dame Counterpane (1994)
Good Griselle (1994)
Alphabestiary: Animal Poems from A to Z (1995)
The Three Bears Holiday Rhyme Book (1995)
The Ballad of the Pirate Queens (1995)
Before the Storm (1995)
A Sip of Aesop (1995)
The Musicians of Bremen (1996)
Welcome to the Sea of Sand (1996)
O Jerusalem (1996)
Sea Watch (1996)
Sky Scrape / City Scape (1996)
Meet the Monsters (1996) (with Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple)
Sacred Places (1996)
Welcome to the River of Grass (1996)
Once Upon Ice (1997)
Miz Berlin Walks (1997)
Child of Faerie, Child of Earth (1997)
Nocturne (1997)
House, House (1998)
King Long Shanks (1998) (with Victoria Chess)
The Originals (1998)
Welcome to the Ice House (1998)
Pegasus, the Flying Horse (1998)
Tea with an Old Dragon (1998)
Prince of Egypt (1998)
Raising Yoder's Barn (1998)
Commander Toad and the Voyage Home (1998)
Snow, Snow (1998)
MoonBall (1999)
The Mary Celeste: An Unsolved Mystery from History (1999) (with Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple)
Off We Go! (1999)
Where Have the Unicorns Gone? (2000) (with Ruth Sanderson)
Color Me a Rhyme (2000)
The Firebird (2000)
The Wolf Girls: An Unsolved Mystery from History (2001)
Bedtime for Bunny (2002)
Wild Wings (2002)
Horizons (2002)
Animal Train (2002)
Harvest Home (2002)
The Sea King (2002) (with Shulamith Oppenheim)
Time for Naps (2002)
My Brothers' Flying Machine (2003)
Hoptoad (2003)
The Flying Witch (2003)
Eeny Up Above (2004)
The Salem Witch Trials: An Unsolved Mystery from History (2004)
The Perfect Wizard: Hans Christian Andersen (2005)
Grandma's Hurrying Child (2005)
Soft House (2005)
Dimity Duck 2 (2007)
Sleep, Black Bear, Sleep (2007) (with Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple)
Baby Bear's Big Dreams (2007)
Hip Hippos (2008)
One Hippo Hops (2008)
Sad, Mad, Glad Hippos (2008)
Mama's Kiss (2008)
My Uncle Emily (2009)
Pumpkin Baby (2009)
Under the Star (2009)
Come to the Fairies' Ball (2009)
Good Night, Little Bunny (2010)
All Star!: Honus Wagner and the Most Famous Baseball Card Ever (2010)
My Father Knows the Names of Things (2010)
Not All Princesses Dress in Pink (2010) (with Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple)
Elsie's Bird (2010)
Hush, Little Horsie (2010)
The Day Tiger Rose Said Goodbye (2011)
Pretty Princess Pig (2011)
Sister Bear: A Norse Tale (2011)
Creepy Monsters, Sleepy Monsters (2011)
Take Two!: A Celebration of Twins (2012) (with J Patrick Lewis)
Bug Off!: Creepy, Crawly Poems (2012)
Waking Dragons (2012)
Romping Monsters, Stomping Monsters (2013)

Series contributed to

MagicQuest
8. The Magic Three of Solatia (1974)

Oz Reimagined
Blown Away (2013)

Anthologies edited

Zoo 2000: Twelve Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy Beasts (1973)
Shape Shifters: Fantasy and Science Fiction Tales About Humans Who Can Change Their Shapes (1978)
Favorite Folktales from Around the World (1986)
Spaceships and Spells (1987) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
Things That Go Bump in the Night: A Collection of Original Stories (1989) (with Martin H Greenberg)
2041: Twelve Short Stories About the Future (1991)
Vampires: A Collection of Original Stories (1991) (with Martin H Greenberg)
Xanadu (1993) (with Martin H Greenberg)
Weather Report (1993)
Xanadu 2 (1994)
Xanadu 3 (1995)
Camelot (1995)
The Haunted House: A Collection of Original Stories (1995)
Mother Earth / Father Sky (1995)
Gray Heroes: Elder Tales from Around the World (1999)
The Fairies' Ring (1999)
Sherwood (2000)
Mirror, Mirror: Forty Folktales for Mothers and Daughters to Share (2000) (with Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple)
Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls (2000)
Mightier Than the Sword: World Folktales for Strong Boys (2003)
The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens (2005) (with Patrick Nielsen Hayden)
Meow: Cat Stories from Around the World (2005) (with Hala Wittwer)

Non fiction

Pirates in Petticoats (1963)
World On a String: The Story of Kites (1968)
Friend: The Story of George Fox And the Quakers (1972)
The Wizard Islands (1974)
Ring Out: A Book of Bells (1974)
Simple Gifts: The Story of the Shakers (1976)
Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie, and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood (1981)
Writing Books for Children (1983)
Guide to Writing for Children (1989)
Take Joy: A Book for Writers (2003)
Roanoke, the Lost Colony (2003) (with Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple)
Deconstructing Tolkien: A Fundamental Analysis of the Lord of the Rings (2004) (with Edward J McFadden and Tom Piccirilli) (see J R R Tolkien)
Sea Queens (2008)
Johnny Appleseed: The Legend and the Truth (2008)
Lost Boy (2010) (see J M Barrie)
The Emily Sonnets: The Life of Emily Dickinson (2012) (with Gary Kelley) (see Emily Dickinson)
Ekaterinoslav: One Family's Passage to America: A Memoir in Verse (2012)
Jewish Fairy Tale Feasts (2012) (with Heidi E Y Stemple)

Anthologies containing stories by Jane Yolen

Short stories

	The Lady and the Merman [short story] (1976)
	The Tower Bird (1978)
	Angelica (1979)
	Cockfight (1980)
	The Sleep of Trees (1980)
	Brothers of the Wind [short story] (1981)
	In the Hall of Grief (1982)
	The Malaysian Mer (1982)
	Brother Kenan's Bell (1983)
	The Foxwife (1984)
	Evian Steel (1985)
	The Face in the Cloth (1985)
	The Confession of Brother Blaise (1986)
	Dream Reader (1986)
	"Once Upon a Time..." She Said (1987)
	Science Fiction (1987)
	Wolf/Child (1987)
	Words of Power (1987)
	The Boy Who Drew Unicorns (1988)
	The Devil's Arithmetic [short story] (1988)		Nebula (nominee) World Fantasy (nominee)
	Memoirs of a Bottle Djinn (1988)
	The Quiet Monk (1988)
	Beauty and the Beast: An Anniversary (1989)
	The Faery Flag [short story] (1989)
	Mama Gone (1991)
	A Story Must Be Held (1991)
	The Question of the Grail (1992)
	The Tale of the Seventeenth Eunuch (1992)
	this is a story (1992)
	Will (1992)
	Inscription (1993)
	Knives (1993)
	The Ring at Yarrow (1993)
	Circles (1994)
	De Natura Unicorni (1994)
	M�rchen (1994)
	Orkney Lament (1994)
	Pitch (1994)
	Allerleirauh (1995)
	Daffodils (1995) (with Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple)
	Jacob and the Angel (1995)
	Journey into the Dark (1995)
	The Mirror Speaks (1995)
	The Question of the Sword (1995)
	Sister Death (1995)
	Swan/Princess (1995)
	The Traveler and the Tale (1995)
	Vamping the Muse (1995)
	Women's Stories (1995)
	Castle Collapse (1996)
	First Contact/Second Coming (1996)
	Flattened Fauna Poem #37: Cats (1996)
	The House of Seven Angels (1996)
	Intermarriage (1996)
	Sex Among the Abos (1996)
	Sextraterrestrials (1996) (with Joe Haldeman)
	Wonder Land (1996)
	Belle Bloody Merciless Dame (1997)
	Godmother Death (1997)
	Rabbit Hole (1997)
	Song of the Cards (1997)
	A Southern Night (1997)
	The Wizard of the Birds (1997) (with Adam Stemple)
	Become a Warrior (1998)
	Bird Count (1998)
	Carrion Crows (1998) (with Robert J Harris)
	Lost Girls (1998)		Nebula
	Sister Emily's LightShip [short story] (1998)		Nebula
	Studies in Stone (1998) (with Robert J Harris)
	Old Merlin Dancing On the Sands of Time (1999)
	Cinder Elephant (2000)
	Holy, Holy, Holy (2000) (with Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple)
	Our Lady of the Greenwood (2000)
	Snow in Summer [short story] (2000)

Awards

	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel winner (1985) : Cards of Grief
	World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (1986) : Dragonfield: And Other Stories
	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Collection nominee (1987) : Merlin's Booke
	World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (1987) : Merlin's Booke
	Nebula Best Novella nominee (1989) : The Devil's Arithmetic [short story]
	World Fantasy Best Novella nominee (1989) : The Devil's Arithmetic [short story]
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1990) : Sister Light, Sister Dark
	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel nominee (1991) : Sister Light, Sister Dark
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1991) : White Jenna
	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Novel winner (1993) : Briar Rose
	Nebula Best Novel nominee (1993) : Briar Rose
	World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1993) : Briar Rose
	Nebula Best Short story winner (1998) : Sister Emily's LightShip [short story]
	Nebula Best Novellette winner (1999) : Lost Girls

Links to other websites

Jane Yolen Official Web Site

Jane Yolen recommends

The Gods of Pegana (1905) Lord Dunsany "Lord Dunsany is the great grandfather of us all."	A College of Magics (1994) (College of Magics, book 1) Caroline Stevermer "A large step up ... from Harry Potter."	Song in the Silence: The Tale of Lanen Kaelar (1996) (Song in the Silence, book 1) Elizabeth Kerner "Elizabeth Kerner has a strong new voice that has the cadences and resonance of an old and wise bard."
The Fox Woman (2000) (Fox Woman, book 1) Kij Johnson "If you are a smash-and-grab, blood-on-the-sword fantasy reader, this astonishingly lyrical first novel about a medieval Japanese shapeshifter is not for you. But if you want lush prose, romantic settings, and a poetry-of-the-soul book, run-do not walk-to get this. God, I wish I had written it!"	The Freedom Maze (2001) Delia Sherman "A bold and sensitively-written novel about a supposed-white child, Sophie Fairchild returned magically to a time of her ancestors who were slavemaster and slaves in the old South. I was mesmerized."

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