Jane Yolen bibliography


List of works by or about fantasy writer Jane Yolen:

Novels

  • The Wizard of Washington Square
  • The Inway Investigators, or, The Mystery at McCracken's Place
  • The Magic Three of Solatia
  • The Transfigured Hart
  • The Mermaid's Three Wisdoms
  • The Gift of Sarah Barker
  • The River Maid
  • Children of the Wolf
  • The Stone Silenus
  • Cards of Grief
  • The Devil's Arithmetic
  • The Dragon's Boy
  • Wizard's Hall
  • The Wild Hunt
  • Briar Rose
  • Armageddon Summer
  • Sword of the Rightful King
  • Except the Queen
  • Snow in Summer
  • Curse of the Thirteenth Fairy
  • B.U.G. Bad Girls: Sirens, Jezebels, Murderesses, Thieves, and Other Female Villains
  • A Plague of Unicorns
  • Centaur Rising
  • Trash Mountain
  • Mapping the Bones
  • Finding Baba Yaga
  • Schlemiel Comes to America
;The Pit Dragon Chronicles
  1. Dragon's Blood
  2. Heart's Blood
  3. A Sending of Dragons
  4. Dragon's Heart
Great Alta
  1. Sister Light, Sister Dark
  2. White Jenna
  3. The One-Armed Queen
The Young Merlin Trilogy
  1. Passager
  2. Hobby
  3. Merlin
Tartan Magic
  1. The Wizard's Map
  2. The Pictish Child
  3. The Bagpiper's Ghost
The Stuart Quartet
  1. Queen's Own Fool, based on the life of Nichola, a jester at the court of Mary, Queen of Scots
  2. Girl in a Cage, based on the life of Marjorie Bruce
  3. Prince Across the Water
  4. The Rogues
Young Heroes Odysseus in the Serpent Maze Hippolyta and the Curse of the Amazons Atalanta and the Arcadian Beast Jason and the Gorgon's Blood
Rock 'n' Roll Fairy Tales
  • Boots and the Seven Leaguers
  • Pay the Piper
  • The Troll Bridge
The Seelie Wars
  • The Hostage Prince
  • The Last Changeling
  • ''The Seelie King's War''

Short fiction

;Collections
  • The Wizard Islands
  • The Girl Who Cried Flowers and Other Tales
  • The Moon Ribbon and Other Tales
  • The Hundredth Dove and Other Tales
  • Dream Weaver
  • Neptune Rising: Songs and Tales of the Undersea People
  • Tales of Wonder
  • The Whitethorn Wood and Other Magicks
  • Dragonfield and Other Stories
  • Merlin's Booke
  • Tales of Wonder
  • The Faery Flag
  • Storyteller
  • Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast
  • Sister Emily's Lightship and Other Stories
  • The Fish Prince and Other Stories: Mermen Folk Tales
  • Once Upon a Time
  • The Last Selchie Child
  • Grumbles from the Forest: Fairy-Tale Voices with a Twist
  • The Bloody Tide
  • The Emerald Circus
  • How to Fracture a Fairy Tale
  • The Midnight Circus
  • The Scarlet Circus
Here There Be... illustrated by David WilgusHere There Be Dragons Here There Be Unicorns Here There Be Witches Here There Be Angels Here There Be Ghosts
;Stories
TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collectedNotes
Sister Emily's Lightship1997Starlight 1Short story; Nebula Award winner
Lost Girls1998Twelve Impossible Things Before BreakfastNovelette; Nebula Award winner
The Jewel in the Toad Queen's Crown2013Queen Victoria's Book of Spells

Children's books and picture books

Fiction picture books

  • The Witch Who Wasn't
  • Gwinellen: The Princess Who Could Not Sleep
  • The Emperor and the Kite
  • Isabel's Noel
  • The Minstrel and the Mountain: A Tale of Peace
  • The Longest Name on the Block
  • It All Depends
  • The Seventh Mandarin
  • The Bird of Time
  • Rainbow Rider
  • The Boy Who Had Wings
  • The Little Spotted Fish
  • An Invitation To The Butterfly Ball
  • Milkweed Days
  • The Seeing Stick
  • The Sultan's Perfect Tree
  • The Simple Prince
  • No Bath Tonight
  • All in the Woodland Early: An ABC Book
  • The Giants Go Camping
  • The Giants' Farm
  • The Robot and Rebecca: Mystery of the Code-Carrying Kids
  • Mice on Ice
  • Dragon Night and Other Lullabies
  • The Robot, Rebecca, and the Missing Owser
  • Sleeping Ugly
  • Uncle Lemon's Spring
  • Shirlick Holmes and the Case of the Wandering Wardrobe
  • The Boy Who Spoke Chimp
  • The Acorn Quest
  • Brothers of the Wind
  • The Sleeping Beauty
  • The Girl Who Loved the Wind
  • Owl Moon
  • Dove Isabeau
  • Tam Lin
  • Elfabet: An ABC of Elves
  • Sky Dogs
  • Dinosaur Dances
  • All Those Secrets of the World
  • Hark! A Christmas Sampler
  • Greyling
  • Wings
  • Letting Swift River Go
  • Eeny, Meeny, Miney Mole
  • Welcome to the Green House
  • Too Old for Naps
  • Honkers
  • Mouse's Birthday
  • The Girl in the Golden Bower
  • Beneath the Ghost Moon
  • Good Griselle
  • Before the Storm
  • Grandad Bill's Song
  • Old Dame Counterpane
  • The Ballad of the Pirate Queens
  • Alphabestiary
  • Merlin and the Dragons
  • A Sip of Aesop
  • And Twelve Chinese Acrobats
  • Little Mouse & Elephant: A Tale from Turkey
  • Musicians of Bremen: A Tale from Germany
  • Encounter
  • Meet the Monsters
  • Miz Berlin Walks
  • Nocturne
  • Once Upon a Bedtime Story
  • Pegasus, the Flying Horse
  • Welcome to the Ice House
  • The Prince of Egypt
  • The Sea Man
  • King Long Shanks
  • Raising Yoder's Barn
  • MoonBall
  • Where Have the Unicorns Gone?
  • Off We Go!
  • The Flying Witch
  • The Firebird
  • Harvest Home
  • The Sea King
  • Time for Naps
  • Hoptoad
  • Child of Faerie, Child of Earth
  • Grandma's Hurrying Child
  • Soft House
  • Dimity Duck
  • Sleep, Black Bear, Sleep
  • Naming Liberty
  • One Hippo Hops
  • Sad, Mad, Glad Hippos
  • Hip Hippos
  • Mama's Kiss
  • Pumpkin Baby
  • The Scarecrow's Dance
  • My Uncle Emily
  • Come to the Fairies' Ball
  • Under the Star: A Christmas Counting Story
  • Elsie's Bird
  • Hush, Little Horsie
  • My Father Knows the Names of Things
  • Creepy Monsters, Sleepy Monsters
  • The Day Tiger Rose Said Goodbye
  • Pretty Princess Pig
  • Sister Bear: A Norse Tale
  • Waking Dragons
  • Romping Monsters, Stomping Monsters
  • The Stranded Whale
  • Stone Angel,
  • You Nest Here with Me
  • Sing a Season Song
  • What To Do With a Box
  • On Bird Hill
  • On Duck Pond
  • Thunder Underground
  • On Gull Beach
  • Crow Not Crow
  • A Bear Sat on My Porch Today
  • Monster Academy
  • Miriam at the River
  • Kiki Kicks
;Commander Toad
  • Commander Toad in Space
  • Commander Toad and the Planet of the Grapes
  • Commander Toad and the Big Black Hole
  • Commander Toad and the Dis-asteroid
  • Commander Toad and the Intergalactic Spy
  • Commander Toad and the Space Pirates
  • Commander Toad and the Voyage Home
Piggins Piggins Picnic with Piggins Piggins and the Royal Wedding
How Do Dinosaurs...?
  • How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?
  • How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon?
  • How Do Dinosaurs Learn to Read?
  • How Do Dinosaurs Clean Their Rooms?
  • How Do Dinosaurs Count to Ten?
  • How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?
  • How Do Dinosaurs Play with Their Friends?
  • How Do Dinosaurs Learn Their Colors?
  • How Do Dinosaurs Go to School?
  • How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You?
  • How Do Dinosaurs Learn Colours and Numbers?
  • How Do Dinosaurs Love Their Cats?
  • How Do Dinosaurs Love Their Dogs?
  • How Do Dinosaurs Laugh Out Loud?
  • How Do Dinosaurs Say Happy Birthday?
  • How Do Dinosaurs Go Up and Down?
  • How Do Dinosaurs Play All Day?
  • How Do Dinosaurs Say Merry Christmas?
  • How Do Dinosaurs Say Happy Chanukah?
  • How Do Dinosaurs Eat Cookies?
  • How Do Dinosaurs Say I'm Mad?
  • How Do Dinosaurs Stay Safe?
  • How Do Dinosaurs Stay Friends?
  • How Do Dinosaurs Choose Their Pets?
Baby Bear
  • Baby Bear's Bedtime Book Baby Bear's Chairs Baby Bear's Books Baby Bear's Big Dreams
Little Frog
  • Little Frog and the Scary Autumn Thing
  • ''Little Frog and the Spring Polliwogs''

Story collections

  • Spider Jane
  • Ring of Earth: A Child's Book of Seasons
  • Milk and Honey: A Year of Jewish Holidays
  • The Fairies' Ring: A Book of Fairy Stories & Poems
  • Not One Damsel In Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls Mightier Than the Sword: World Folktales for Strong Boys
  • The Barefoot Book of Ballet Stories
  • Meow: Cat Stories from Around the World
  • The Barefoot Book of Dance Stories
  • Animal Stories: Heartwarming True Tales from the Animal Kingdom
  • Once There Was a Story: Tales from Around the World, Perfect for Sharing
  • ''Meet Me at the Well: The Girls and Women of the Bible''

Songbooks

The Fireside Song Book of Birds and Beasts Rounds about Rounds The Lullaby Songbook The Lap-Time Song and Play Book Jane Yolen's Mother Goose Songbook Jane Yolen's Songs Of Summer Jane Yolen's Old Macdonald Songbook
  • ''Apple for the Teacher: Thirty Songs for Singing While You Work''

Literary cookbooks

  • Fairy Tale Feasts
  • Fairy Tale Breakfasts
  • Fairy Tale Lunches
  • Fairy Tale Dinners
  • Fairy Tale Desserts
  • ''Jewish Fairy Tale Feasts''

Nonfiction picture books

  • Ring Out! A Book of Bells
  • World on a String: The Story of Kites
  • Simple Gifts: The Story of the Shakers
  • A Letter from Phoenix Farm
  • Welcome to the Sea of Sand
  • Tea with an Old Dragon: A Story of Sophia Smith, Found of Smith College
  • House, House
  • Welcome to the River of Grass
  • My Brothers' Flying Machine: Wilbur, Orville, and Me
  • The Perfect Wizard: Hans Christian Andersen
  • Johnny Appleseed: The Legend and the Truth
  • Lost Boy: The Story of the Man Who Created Peter Pan
  • All Star!: Honus Wagner and the Most Famous Baseball Card Ever
  • The Emily Sonnets: The Life of Emily Dickinson
  • Smout and the Lighthouse
An Unsolved Mystery from History The Mary Celeste The Wolf Girls Roanoke, the Lost Colony
  • ''The Salem Witch Trials''

Poetry

;Collections
  • Best Witches: Poems for Halloween
  • What Rhymes with Moon?
  • Raining Cats and Dogs
  • How Beastly!
  • Animal Fare
  • Water Music: Poems for Children
  • Sacred Places
  • Snow, Snow: Winter Poems for Children
  • The Originals: Animals that Time Forgot
  • Bird Watch
  • O Jerusalem: Voices of a Sacred City
  • Sea Watch
  • Color Me a Rhyme: Nature Poems for Young People
  • Dear Mother, Dear Daughter: Poems for Young People
  • Wild Wings: Poems for Young People
  • Horizons: Poems as Far as the Eye Can See
  • The Radiation Sonnets
  • Least Things: Poems about Small Natures
  • Fine Feathered Friends
  • Count Me a Rhyme: Animal Poems by the Numbers
  • Shape Me a Rhyme: Nature's Forms in Poetry
  • A Mirror to Nature: Poems About Reflection
  • An Egret's Day
  • Things to Say to a Dead Man: Poems at the End of a Marriage and After
  • Bird of a Feather
  • Bug Off! Creepy, Crawly Poems
  • The Last Selchie Child
  • Ekaterinoslav: One Family's Passage to America: A Memoir in Verse
  • Sister Fox’s Field Guide to the Writing Life
  • Grumbles from the Forest: Fairy-Tale Voices with a Twist
  • The Bloody Tide: Poems about Politics and Power
  • Grumbles from the Town: Mother-Goose Voices with a Twist
  • The Alligator's Smile, and Other Poems
  • How to Fracture a Fairy Tale
  • Before the Vote After
  • Fly with Me: A Celebration of Birds Through Pictures, Poems, and Stories
  • In and Out the Window
;Anthologies editedStreet Rhymes Around the World Weather Report Sleep Rhymes Around the World Mother Earth Father Sky: Poems of Our Planet
  • Sky Scrape/City Scape: Poems of City Life
  • Once Upon Ice: And Other Frozen Poems
;Individual poems
TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collectedNotes
Angels fly because they take themselves lightly19911991 Asimov's Science Fiction Readers' Award, poetry.
Call of the Wild2014
Fiddler at midnight2014
Perhaps2015
Prince/glass2015
South of Oz2014
Telling the true2013
Tintagel morning : song1990
What a time traveler needs most2014
Will1992Also published as a broadside by A Midsummer Night's Press; 1993 Rhysling Award winner.

Graphic novels

The Last Dragon Foiled Curses! Foiled Again
  • The Stone Man Mysteries
  • #Stone Cold
  • #''Sanctuary''

Screenplays

As editor

Fiction

Nonfiction

  • Writing Books for Children
  • Friend: The Story of George Fox and the Quakers
  • Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
  • Take Joy: A Writer's Guide to Loving the Craft
  • ''Sea Queens: Women Pirates Around the World''