Jane Yolen

Jane Yolen

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Jane Yolen is a prolific author with over 365 published books, spanning both children's and adult literature. Her notable works include the Pit Dragon Chronicles series and The Devil’s Arithmetic, a Puffin Modern Classic.

In Jane Yolen's "The Devil's Arithmetic," Hannah, a girl who dreads her family's Passover Seder, is transported to a Polish village in 1942 after opening the door to welcome the prophet Elijah. Initially tired of hearing about the past, Hannah soon experiences the Holocaust firsthand. Her journey through time teaches her the profound impact of historical events on her family's life.

Books of the Great Alta

Sister Light, Sister Dark

(1988)

White Jenna

(1989)

The One-Armed Queen

(1998)

Commander Toad

Commander Toad in Space

(1980)

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)

Commander Toad and the Space Pirates

(1987)

Commander Toad and the Voyage Home

(1998)

Fairy Tale Cookbooks

Fairy Tale Feasts

(2006)

Fairy Tale Desserts

(2009)

Fairy Tale Lunches

(2009)

Fairy Tale Dinners

(2009)

Fairy Tale Breakfasts

(2009)

Foiled

Foiled

(2010)

Curses! Foiled Again

(2013)

Here There Be...

Here There Be Dragons

(1993)

Here There Be Unicorns

(1994)

Here There Be Witches

(1995)

Here There Be Angels

(1996)

Here There Be Ghosts

(1998)

How Do Dinosaurs...?

How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?

(2000)

How Do Dinosaurs Count to Ten?

(2004)

How Do Dinosaurs Clean Their Rooms?

(2004)

How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?

(2005)

How Do Dinosaurs Learn Their Colors?

(2006)

How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon?

(2006)

How Do Dinosaurs Play with Their Friends?

(2006)

How Do Dinosaurs Go to School?

(2007)

How Do Dinosaurs Say Happy Chanukah?

(2008)

How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You?

(2009)

How Do Dinosaurs Go Up and Down?: A Book of Opposites

(2011)

How Do Dinosaurs Say Happy Birthday?

(2011)

How Do Dinosaurs Say I'M MAD?

(2013)

How Do Dinosaurs Stay Safe?

(2015)

How Do Dinosaurs Stay Friends?

(2016)

How Do Dinosaurs Say Merry Christmas?

(2019)

How Do Dinosaurs Show Good Manners?

(2020)

How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodbye?

(2021)

How Do Dinosaurs Learn to Be Kind?

(2023)

How Do Dinosaurs Say Trick or Treat?

(2024)

Isabel the Witch

The Witch Who Wasn't

(1964)

On Bird Hill and Beyond

On Bird Hill

(2016)

On Duck Pond

(2017)

Pit Dragons

Dragon's Blood

(1982)

Heart's Blood

(1984)

A Sending of Dragons

(1987)

Dragon's Heart

(2009)

Robot and Rebecca

The Case of the Code-Carrying Kids

(1980)

Robot and Rebecca and the Missing Owner

(1981)

Rock'n' Roll Fairy Tale

Pay the Piper

(2005)(By: Adam Stemple)

The Troll Bridge

(2006)

Stuart Quartet (with Robert J. Harris)

Queen's Own Fool

(2000)

Girl in a Cage

(2002)

Prince Across the Water

(2004)

The Rogues

(2007)

Tartan Magic

The Wizard's Map

(1999)

The Pictish Child

(1999)

The Bagpiper's Ghost

(2002)

The Seelie Wars

The Hostage Prince

(2013)

The Last Changeling

(2014)

The Seelie King's War

(2016)

The Stone Man Mysteries

Stone Cold

(2016)

Sanctuary

(2018)

Breaking Out the Devil

(2019)

The Young Merlin Trilogy

Passager

(1996)

Hobby

(1996)

Merlin

(1997)

Young Heroes

Odysseus in the Serpent Maze

(2001)

Hippolyta and the Curse of the Amazons

(2002)

Atalanta and the Arcadian Beast

(2003)

Jason and the Gorgon's Blood

(2004)

Yolen's Short Fiction

The Emerald Circus

(2017)

How to Fracture a Fairy Tale

(2018)

The Midnight Circus

(2020)

The Scarlet Circus

(2023)

Standalone Novels

Trust a City Kid

(1970)(With: Anne Huston)

The Inway Investigators

(1970)

The Transfigured Hart

(1975)

The Mermaid's Three Wisdoms

(1978)

The Boy Who Spoke Chimp

(1981)

The Gift of Sarah Barker

(1981)

Cards Of Grief

(1984)

Children of the Wolf

(1984)

Stone Silenus

(1984)

Briar Rose

(1988)

The Devil's Arithmetic

(1988)

The Dragon's Boy

(1990)

Wizard's Hall

(1991)

The Wild Hunt

(1995)

Armageddon Summer

(1998)(With: Bruce Coville)

Boots and the Seven Leaguers

(2000)

Sword of the Rightful King

(2003)

Except the Queen

(2010)(With: Midori Snyder)

The Last Dragon

(2011)

Snow in Summer

(2011)

Curse of the Thirteenth Fey

(2012)

B.U.G.

(2013)

Trash Mountain

(2014)

Centaur Rising

(2014)

A Plague of Unicorns

(2014)

Mapping the Bones

(2018)

Finding Baba Yaga

(2018)

The Last Tsar's Dragons

(2019)

How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodbye?

(2021)

Arch of Bone

(2021)

Short Story Collections

The Girl Who Cried Flowers and Other Tales

(1974)

The Hundredth Dove and Other Tales

(1977)

Dream Weaver

(1979)

Dragonfield and Other Stories

(1985)

Favorite Folktales From Around the World

(1986)

Merlin's Booke

(1986)

Tales of Wonder

(1987)

The Faery Flag

(1989)

Hark!

(1991)

Storyteller

(1992)

Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast

(1997)

Sister Emily's Lightship and Other Stories

(1997)

The Fish Prince and Other Stories

(2001)

The Barefoot Book of Ballet Stories

(2004)

Grumbles from the Forest

(2013)(With: Rebecca Kai Dotlich)

Animal Stories

(2014)

The Emerald Circus

(2017)

Once There Was a Story

(2017)

Meet Me at the Well

(2018)

How to Fracture a Fairy Tale

(2018)

The Midnight Circus

(2020)

Kaddish: Before the Holocaust and After

(2021)

Picture

The Sea Man

(1997)

Elsie's Bird

(2010)

Thunder Underground

(2017)

Something New for Rosh Hashanah

(2021)

Eeny Up Above

(2021)

Mrs. Noah's Doves

(2022)

Giant Island

(2022)

Yuck, You Suck!

(2022)(With: Heidi E y Stemple)

Deborah's Tree

(2022)

What to Do with a Stick

(2023)

Kiki Kicks

(2023)

Children's (with Maddison Stemple-Piatt, Heidi E. Y. Stemple)

The Bird of Time

(1971)

The Girl Who Loved the Wind

(1972)

The seeing stick

(1977)

No Bath Tonight

(1978)

Dimity Duck

(1980)

Sleeping Ugly

(1981)(With: Diane Stanley)

The Lullaby Songbook

(1986)

Owl Moon

(1987)(With: John Schoenherr)

Dove Isabeau

(1989)

Tam Lin

(1990)

Wings

(1991)(With: Dennis Nolan)

Encounter

(1992)

Letting Swift River Go

(1992)

Greyling

(1993)

Mouse's Birthday

(1993)

Grandad Bill's Song

(1994)

Fever Dream

(1996)

Sacred Places

(1996)

Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters

(1998)(By: Kathleen Ragan)

The Prince of Egypt

(1998)(With: Michael Koelsch)

The Perfect Wizard: Hans Christian Andersen

(2005)

Sea Queens

(2008)

Not All Princesses Dress in Pink

(2010)

The Day Tiger Rose Said Goodbye

(2011)

Waking Dragons

(2012)

The Emily Sonnets

(2012)

Romping Monsters, Stomping Monsters

(2013)

You Nest Here with Me

(2015)(With: Heidi E. Y. Stemple)

Little Frog and the Scary Autumn Thing

(2016)

Last Laughs: Prehistoric Epitaphs

(2017)

Crow Not Crow

(2018)

A Kite for Moon

(2019)(With: Heidi E.Y. Stemple)

Merbaby's Lullaby

(2019)

School of Fish

(2019)

Friendship on the High Seas

(2019)

Racing the Waves

(2019)

Rocking the Tide

(2020)

Knowing the Name of a Bird

(2020)

Testing the Waters

(2020)

Interrupting Cow

(2020)

Crossing the Current

(2020)

Interrupting Cow and the Chicken Crossing the Road

(2020)

The Mary Celeste

(2021)

The Leather Apron Club

(2021)

When Nana Dances

(2021)(With: Maddison Stemple-Piatt)

New Tricks for the Old Dog

(2021)

Elefantastic!: A Story of Magic in 5 Acts

(2022)

Big Bold Beautiful Me

(2022)(With: Maddison Stemple-Piatt)

Love Birds

(2022)(With: Anna Wilson)

Interrupting Cow and the Horse of a Different Color

(2022)

Schlemiel Comes to America

(2023)

The Horseback Librarians

(2023)

Straw Bag, Tin Box, Cloth Suitcase

(2023)

What to Do with a Box

(2023)

Interrupting Cow and the Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

(2023)

Smout and the Lighthouse

(2023)

Tea with an Old Giant

(2023)

Nana and Me: Special Poems Just for Us

(2023)

Mighty Micah

(2024)

See This Little Dot

(2024)

Eeny and Her Sisters

(2024)

Too Many Golems

(2024)

Quiet as Mud

(2024)

The Apple Argument

(2024)

Interrupting Cow Meets the Wise Quacker

(2024)

The Giants' Visitor: A QUIX Book

(2024)

The Many Problems of Rochel-Leah

(2024)

The Giants' Tree House: A QUIX Book

(2025)

Animals On Parade

(2025)

His Fairytale Life

(2025)

How to Spot a Mermaid

(2025)

Monsters of Fife: Sea Dragons

(2025)

Collections

Among Angels: Poems

(1995)(With: Nancy Willard)

Not One Damsel in Distress: Heroic Girls from World Folklore

(2000)(With: Susan Guevara)

Grumbles from the Town

(2021)(With: Rebecca Kai Dotlich)

In and Out the Window

(2024)

The Last Robot and Other Science Fiction Poems

(2024)

Oz Reimagined

Dorothy Dreams

(2013)(By: Simon R. Green)

Emeralds to Emeralds, Dust to Dust

(2013)(By: Seanan McGuire)

The Boy Detective of Oz

(2013)(By: Tad Williams)

A Meeting in Oz

(2013)(By: Jeffrey Ford)

Off to See the Emperor

(2013)(By: Orson Scott Card)

The Cobbler of Oz

(2013)(By: Jonathan Maberry)

Lost Girls of Oz

(2013)(By: Theodora Goss)

Blown Away

(2013)

A Tornado of Dorothys

(2013)(By: Kat Howard)

The Veiled Shanghai

(2013)(By: Ken Liu)

Dead Blue

(2013)(By: David Farland)

The Great Zeppelin Heist of Oz

(2013)(By: C.C. Finlay,Rae Carson)

Beyond the Naked Eye

(2013)(By: Rachel Swirsky)

City So Bright

(2013)(By: Dale Bailey)

One Flew Over the Rainbow

(2013)(By: Robin Wasserman)

MagicQuest

The Sherwood Ring

(1958)(By: Elizabeth Marie Pope)

The Seventh Swan

(1962)(By: Nicholas Stuart Gray)

The Dragon Hoard

(1971)(By: Tanith Lee,Graham Oakley)

The Throme of the Erril of Sherill

(1973)(By: Patricia A. McKillip)

The Perilous Gard

(1974)(By: Elizabeth Marie Pope)

The Magic Three of Solatia

(1974)

Power of Three

(1976)(By: Diana Wynne Jones)

Time Piper

(1976)(By: Delia Huddy)

The Dark Lord of Pengersick

(1976)(By: Richard Carlyon)

East of Midnight

(1977)(By: Tanith Lee)

The Devil on the Road

(1978)(By: Robert Westall)

The Ash Staff

(1979)(By: Paul R. Fisher)

Tulku

(1979)(By: Peter Dickinson)

The Magicians of Caprona

(1980)(By: Diana Wynne Jones)

The Princess and the Thorn

(1980)(By: Paul R. Fisher)

Mont Cant Gold

(1981)(By: Paul R. Fisher)

The Hawks of Fellheath

(1984)(By: Paul R. Fisher)

Talking to Dragons

(1985)(By: Patricia C. Wrede)

The Last Days of the Edge of the World

(1985)(By: Brian M. Stableford)

Anthologies

Shape Shifters: Fantasy and Science Fiction Tales About Humans Who Can Change Their Shapes

(1978)

The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XII

(1984)

Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction

(1985)

Moonsinger's Friends: An Anthology in Honor of Andre Norton

(1985)

Dragons & Dreams

(1986)

The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 12

(1986)

The Unicorn Treasury

(1988)

First Annual Collection

(1988)

Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1

(1988)

Dragons and Warrior Daughters

(1989)

The Pendragon Chronicles: Heroic Fantasy from the Time of King Arthur

(1989)

Second Annual Collection

(1989)

Third Annual Collection

(1989)

Halloween Poems

(1989)

The Year's Best Fantasy 2 / Demons and Dreams

(1990)

Drabble II: Double Century

(1990)

Spells of Enchantment

(1991)

After the King

(1991)

Fifth Annual Collection

(1992)

Inside the Funhouse

(1992)

A Wizard's Dozen

(1993)

Snow White, Blood Red

(1993)

The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales

(1993)

The Ultimate Witch

(1993)

South From Midnight

(1994)

Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence

(1994)

Xanadu

(1994)

Seventh Annual Collection

(1994)

Black Thorn, White Rose

(1994)

The Armless Maiden

(1995)

Angels!

(1995)

The Book of Kings

(1995)

The Haunted House of Original Stories

(1995)

Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears

(1995)

Blood Muse

(1995)

Women at War

(1995)

Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Tenth Annual Collection

(1996)

Starlight 1

(1996)

Modern Classics of Fantasy

(1997)

Out of the Mold

(1997)

The Random House Book of Fantasy Stories

(1997)

Black Swan, White Raven

(1997)

Eleventh Annual Collection

(1998)

In the Shadow of the Gargoyle

(1998)

Nebula Awards 33

(1999)

Sherwood

(2000)

Crafty Cat Crimes

(2000)

Ribbiting Tales

(2000)

Black Heart, Ivory Bones

(2000)

Mr. Simonelli or the Fairy Widower

(2000)

Nebula Awards 34 (2000)

(2000)

Mirror, Mirror: Forty Folk Tales for Mothers and Daughters to Share

(2000)

Such a Pretty Face: Tales of Power and Abundance

(2000)

Starlight 3

(2001)

Fourteenth Annual Collection

(2001)

The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women

(2001)

The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature

(2002)

The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest

(2002)

Fire and Wings: Dragon Tales from East and West

(2002)

Fifteenth Annual Collection

(2002)

New Skies: An Anthology of Today's Science Fiction

(2003)

Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian

(2003)

New Magics

(2004)

The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens

(2005)

Unexpected

(2005)

Jabberwocky 2

(2006)

Best New Paranormal Romance

(2006)

Be Careful What You Wish For

(2007)

The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales

(2007)

Firebirds Soaring

(2009)

The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People

(2009)

Amazing Faces

(2010)

Visitants

(2010)

Happily Ever After

(2011)

What You Wish For

(2011)

Conclave

(2012)

Witches: Wicked, Wild & Wonderful

(2012)

After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia

(2012)

Where Rockets Burn Through

(2012)

Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 35, April 2013

(2013)

Oz Reimagined

(2013)

The 2013 Rhysling Anthology

(2013)

Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales

(2013)

Beyond the Pale

(2014)

Futuredaze 2: Reprise

(2014)

Mythic Delirium

(2014)

Mythic Delirium Magazine Issue 1.4

(2015)

Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep

(2015)

Scarecrow

(2015)

Been There, Done That

(2015)

Mythic Delirium: Volume Two

(2015)

Warrior Women

(2015)

Shoreline of Infinity 3

(2016)

Beyond the Woods: Fairy Tales Retold

(2016)

One Minute till Bedtime

(2016)

The 2017 Rhysling Anthology

(2017)

Equus

(2017)

Shoreline of Infinity 8½: Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition

(2017)

Mad Hatters and March Hares

(2017)

Compass Roads: Poems about the Pioneer Valley

(2018)

Shoreline of Infinity 11½

(2018)

Nebula Awards 52 (2018)

(2018)

The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories

(2018)

Multiverse: an international anthology of science fiction poetry

(2018)

Thanku

(2019)

Wonderland

(2019)

Coffin Bell Two

(2019)

Edited By

(2020)

Wicked Women: An Anthology of the New England Horror Writers

(2020)

Seasons Between Us

(2021)

Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas

(2021)

The Reinvented Heart

(2022)

The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie

(2023)

The Heartbeat of the Universe: Poems from Asimov’s Science Fiction and Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2012–2022

(2024)

42 Stories Anthology Presents: Book of 42²

(2024)

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