Jane Yolen is a highly accomplished author with a prolific career spanning over 365 books. She is known for her writing in various genres, including children's and adult literature. Yolen's most famous work is "The Devil's Arithmetic," a Puffin Modern Classic that has been adapted into a television movie in 1999.
In addition to being a novelist, Yolen is also a storyteller, poet, folklorist, songwriter, journalist, and children's book author. Her accolades include the Caldecott Medal, two Nebula Awards, the World Fantasy Award, three Mythopoeic Awards, the Kerlan Award, two Christopher Awards, and six honorary doctorate degrees from colleges and universities in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. These awards and recognitions are a testament to her talent and dedication to the craft of writing.
Born and raised in New York City, Yolen is a mother of three and a grandmother of six. She divides her time between Massachusetts and St. Andrews, Scotland, no doubt finding inspiration for her writing in both places. Her writing has been adapted for television, with "Jackanory" and "Merlin" becoming television series and "The Devil's Arithmetic" becoming a television movie. This further highlights the wide appeal and impact of her work, which has captivated audiences of all ages.
Isabel the Witch Books
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The Witch Who Wasn't
1964
Robot and Rebecca Books
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The Case of the Code-Carrying Kids
1980
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Robot and Rebecca and the Missing Owner
1981
Commander Toad Books
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Commander Toad in Space
1980
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Commander Toad and the Planet of the Grapes
1982
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Commander Toad and the Big Black Hole
1983
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Commander Toad and the Dis-Asteroid
1985
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Commander Toad and the Intergalactic Spy
1986
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Commander Toad and the Space Pirates
1987
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Commander Toad and the Voyage Home
1998
Pit Dragons Books
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Dragon's Blood
1982
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Heart's Blood
1984
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A Sending of Dragons
1987
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Dragon's Heart
2009
Books of the Great Alta Books
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Sister Light, Sister Dark
1988
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White Jenna
1989
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The One-Armed Queen
1998
Here There Be... Books
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Here There Be Dragons
1993
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Here There Be Unicorns
1994
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Here There Be Witches
1995
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Here There Be Angels
1996
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Here There Be Ghosts
1998
The Young Merlin Trilogy Books
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Passager
1996
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Hobby
1996
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Merlin
1997
Tartan Magic Books
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The Wizard's Map
1999
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The Pictish Child
1999
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The Bagpiper's Ghost
2002
Stuart Quartet Books (with Robert J. Harris)
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Queen's Own Fool
2000
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Girl in a Cage
2002
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Prince Across the Water
2004
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The Rogues
2007
Young Heroes Books (with Robert J. Harris)
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Odysseus in the Serpent Maze
2001
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Hippolyta and the Curse of the Amazons
2002
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Atalanta and the Arcadian Beast
2003
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Jason and the Gorgon's Blood
2004
Rock'n' Roll Fairy Tale Books
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Pay the Piper
2005
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The Troll Bridge
2006
Foiled Books
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Foiled
2010
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Curses! Foiled Again
2013
The Seelie Wars Books
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The Hostage Prince
2013
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The Last Changeling
2014
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The Seelie King's War
2016
The Stone Man Mysteries Books
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Stone Cold
2016
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Sanctuary
2018
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Breaking Out the Devil
2019
Standalone Novels
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Trust a City Kid
1970
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The Inway Investigators
1970
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The Transfigured Hart
1975
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The Mermaid's Three Wisdoms
1978
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The Boy Who Spoke Chimp
1981
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The Gift of Sarah Barker
1981
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Cards Of Grief
1984
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Children of the Wolf
1984
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Stone Silenus
1984
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Briar Rose
1988
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The Devil's Arithmetic
1988
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The Dragon's Boy
1990
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Wizard's Hall
1991
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The Wild Hunt
1995
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Armageddon Summer
1998
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Boots and the Seven Leaguers
2000
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Sword of the Rightful King
2003
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Except the Queen
2010
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The Last Dragon
2011
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Snow in Summer
2011
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Curse of the Thirteenth Fey
2012
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B.U.G.
2013
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Trash Mountain
2014
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Centaur Rising
2014
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A Plague of Unicorns
2014
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Mapping the Bones
2018
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Finding Baba Yaga
2018
28
The Last Tsar's Dragons
2019
29
How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodbye?
2021
30
Arch of Bone
2021
Short Story Collections
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The Girl Who Cried Flowers and Other Tales
1974
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The Hundredth Dove and Other Tales
1977
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Dream Weaver
1979
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Dragonfield and Other Stories
1985
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Merlin's Booke
1986
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Favorite Folktales From Around the World
1986
7
Tales of Wonder
1987
8
The Faery Flag
1989
9
Hark!
1991
10
Storyteller
1992
11
Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast
1997
12
Sister Emily's Lightship and Other Stories
1997
13
The Fish Prince and Other Stories
2001
14
The Barefoot Book of Ballet Stories
2004
15
Grumbles from the Forest: Fairy-Tale Voices with a Twist
2013
16
Animal Stories
2014
17
The Emerald Circus
2017
18
Once There Was a Story
2017
19
Meet Me at the Well
2018
20
How to Fracture a Fairy Tale
2018
21
The Midnight Circus
2020
22
Kaddish: Before the Holocaust and After
2021
Picture Books (with Eugenia Nobati, with Alida Massari, with Heidi E y Stemple, with Ariel Stemple)
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Thunder Underground
2017
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Something New for Rosh Hashanah
2021
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Eeny Up Above
2021
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Mrs. Noah's Doves
2022
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Giant Island
2022
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Yuck, You Suck!: Poems about Animals That Sip, Slurp, Suck
2022
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Deborah's Tree
2022
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What to Do with a Stick
2023
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Kiki Kicks
2023
Children's Books (with Heidi E.Y. Stemple, with Dennis Nolan, with Alexandra Badiu, with Maddison Stemple-Piatt, with Anna Wilson)
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The Bird of Time
1971
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The seeing stick
1977
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Sleeping Ugly
1981
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Dove Isabeau
1989
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Wings
1991
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Encounter
1992
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Mouse's Birthday
1993
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Fever Dream
1996
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Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World
1998
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The Perfect Wizard: Hans Christian Andersen
2005
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Last Laughs: Prehistoric Epitaphs
2017
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A Kite for Moon
2019
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School of Fish
2019
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Friendship on the High Seas
2019
15
How Do Dinosaurs Say Merry Christmas?
2019
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Racing the Waves
2019
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Rocking the Tide
2020
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Testing the Waters
2020
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Interrupting Cow
2020
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Crossing the Current
2020
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Interrupting Cow and the Chicken Crossing the Road
2020
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The Mary Celeste
2021
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The Leather Apron Club: Benjamin Franklin, His Son Billy & America's First Circulating Library
2021
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When Nana Dances
2021
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New Tricks for the Old Dog
2021
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Elefantastic!: A Story of Magic in 5 Acts
2022
27
Big Bold Beautiful Me
2022
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Love Birds
2022
29
Interrupting Cow and the Horse of a Different Color
2022
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Schlemiel Comes to America
2023
31
The Horseback Librarians
2023
32
Interrupting Cow and the Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
2023
How Do Dinosaurs...? Books
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How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?
2000
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How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?
2005
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How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You?
2009
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How Do Dinosaurs Say I'M MAD?
2013
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How Do Dinosaurs Learn to Be Kind?
2023
Laksa Anthology Books
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Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts
2016
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The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound
2017
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Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy
2017
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Shades Within Us: Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders
2018
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Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories
2021
Oz Reimagined Books
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Dorothy Dreams
2013
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Emeralds to Emeralds, Dust to Dust
2013
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The Boy Detective of Oz
2013
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A Meeting in Oz
2013
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Off to See the Emperor
2013
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The Cobbler of Oz
2013
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Lost Girls of Oz
2013
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Blown Away
2013
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A Tornado of Dorothys
2013
10
The Veiled Shanghai
2013
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Dead Blue
2013
12
The Great Zeppelin Heist of Oz
2013
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Beyond the Naked Eye
2013
14
City So Bright
2013
15
One Flew Over the Rainbow
2013
Susan Guevara as Illustrator
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Emmett's Snowball
1990
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The Class With the Summer Birthdays
1991
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I Have an Aunt on Marlborough Street
1992
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The Boardwalk Princess
1993
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The King's Commissioners
1994
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Chato's Kitchen
1995
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Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Italy
1996
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Mouse Party
1998
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My Daughter, My Son, The Eagle, The Dove
2000
10
Not One Damsel in Distress: Heroic Girls from World Folklore
2000
11
Chato and the Party Animals
2000
12
Tiger, Tiger
2002
13
Isabel's House of Butterflies by Tony Johnston
2003
14
Chato Goes Cruisin'
2005
15
The Lady in the Blue Cloak
2006
16
Tales Our Abuelitas Told: A Hispanic Folktale Collection
2006
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Número Uno
2007
18
Wild Women of the Wild West
2007
19
Voice from Afar: Poems of Peace
2008
20
Little Roja Riding Hood
2013
21
A Journey Toward Hope
2019
Melissa Sweet as Illustrator
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Pinky and Rex
1990
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Pinky and Rex and the Spelling Bee
1991
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Pinky and Rex and the Mean Old Witch
1991
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Pinky and Rex Go To Camp
1992
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Pinky and Rex Get Married
1993
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Pinky And Rex and the New Baby
1993
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Pinky and Rex and the Double-Dad Weekend
1995
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Blast Off!
1995
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Bat Jamboree
1996
10
Pinky and Rex and the Bully
1996
11
Pinky and Rex and the New Neighbors
1997
12
Pinky and Rex and the Perfect Pumpkin
1998
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Pinky and Rex and the School Play
1998
14
On Christmas Day in the Morning
1999
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Bats on Parade
1999
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Love and Kisses
1999
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Bats Around the Clock
2000
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Girls Think of Everything
2000
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Bouncing Time
2000
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Dirty Laundry Pile
2001
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Pinky and Rex and the Just-Right Pet
2001
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It's Spring!
2001
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The Sky's the Limit
2002
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Jingle Bells
2002
25
Peek-A-Book
2003
26
Spring Is Here
2004
27
A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams
2008
28
The Sleepy Little Alphabet
2009
29
Day Is Done
2009
30
Rubia and the Three Osos
2010
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Mrs. Harkness and the Panda
2012
32
Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909
2013
33
A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin
2013
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Firefly July
2014
35
You Nest Here with Me
2015
36
Baabwaa and Wooliam
2017
37
Cricket in the Thicket
2017
38
How to Read a Book
2019
39
Alphamaniacs
2020
40
Unbound: The Life and Art of Judith Scott
2021
41
Girls Solve Everything
2022
Collections
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Among Angels: Poems
1995
The Jane Yolen Classic Fantasy Stories Books
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The Scarlet Circus
2023
Jane Yolen Anthologies
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Shape Shifters: Fantasy and Science Fiction Tales About Humans Who Can Change Their Shapes
1978
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The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XII
1984
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Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction
1985
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Moonsinger's Friends: An Anthology in Honor of Andre Norton
1985
5
Dragons & Dreams
1986
6
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 12
1986
7
The Unicorn Treasury: Stories, Poems, and Unicorn Lore
1988
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First Annual Collection
1988
9
Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1
1988
10
Dragons and Warrior Daughters
1989
11
The Pendragon Chronicles: Heroic Fantasy from the Time of King Arthur
1989
12
Second Annual Collection
1989
13
Third Annual Collection
1989
14
Halloween Poems
1989
15
The Year's Best Fantasy 2 / Demons and Dreams
1990
16
Drabble II: Double Century
1990
17
Vampires
1991
18
Spells of Enchantment
1991
19
After the King
1991
20
Fifth Annual Collection
1992
21
Inside the Funhouse
1992
22
A Wizard's Dozen
1993
23
Snow White, Blood Red
1993
24
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales
1993
25
The Ultimate Witch
1993
26
South From Midnight
1994
27
Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence
1994
28
Xanadu
1994
29
Seventh Annual Collection
1994
30
Black Thorn, White Rose
1994
31
The Armless Maiden
1995
32
Angels!
1995
33
The Book of Kings
1995
34
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears
1995
35
Blood Muse
1995
36
Women at War
1995
37
Tenth Annual Collection
1996
38
Starlight 1
1996
39
Out of the Mold
1997
40
Modern Classics of Fantasy
1997
41
The Random House Book of Fantasy Stories
1997
42
Black Swan, White Raven
1997
43
Eleventh Annual Collection
1998
44
In the Shadow of the Gargoyle
1998
45
Nebula Awards 33
1999
46
Sherwood
2000
47
Crafty Cat Crimes
2000
48
Ribbiting Tales
2000
49
Black Heart, Ivory Bones
2000
50
Mr. Simonelli or the Fairy Widower
2000
51
Nebula Awards 34 (2000)
2000
52
Mirror, Mirror: Forty Folk Tales for Mothers and Daughters to Share
2000
53
Such a Pretty Face: Tales of Power and Abundance
2000
54
Starlight 3
2001
55
Fourteenth Annual Collection
2001
56
The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women
2001
57
The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature
2002
58
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest
2002
59
Fire and Wings: Dragon Tales from East and West
2002
60
Fifteenth Annual Collection
2002
61
New Skies: An Anthology of Today's Science Fiction
2003
62
Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian
2003
63
New Magics
2004
64
The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens
2005
65
Unexpected
2005
66
Jabberwocky 2
2006
67
Best New Paranormal Romance
2006
68
Be Careful What You Wish For
2007
69
The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales
2007
70
Firebirds Soaring
2009
71
The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People
2009
72
Amazing Faces
2010
73
Visitants
2010
74
Happily Ever After
2011
75
What You Wish For: A Book for Darfur
2011
76
Conclave
2012
77
Witches: Wicked, Wild & Wonderful
2012
78
After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia
2012
79
Where Rockets Burn Through
2012
80
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 35, April 2013
2013
81
Oz Reimagined
2013
82
The 2013 Rhysling Anthology
2013
83
Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales
2013
84
Beyond the Pale
2014
85
Futuredaze 2: Reprise
2014
86
Mythic Delirium Magazine Issue 1.4
2015
87
Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep
2015
88
Scarecrow
2015
89
Been There, Done That: Writing Stories from Real Life
2015
90
Mythic Delirium: Volume Two
2015
91
Warrior Women
2015
92
Shoreline of Infinity 3
2016
93
One Minute till Bedtime
2016
94
The 2017 Rhysling Anthology
2017
95
Shoreline of Infinity 8½: Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition
2017
96
Mad Hatters and March Hares
2017
97
Shoreline of Infinity 11½: Edinburgh International Science Festival Special Edition
2018
98
Nebula Awards 52 (2018)
2018
99
The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories
2018
100
Multiverse: an international anthology of science fiction poetry
2018
101
Thanku
2019
102
Wonderland
2019
103
Coffin Bell Two
2019
104
Edited By
2020
105
Wicked Women: An Anthology of the New England Horror Writers