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Hiya! I write in many genres. I love the juxtaposition
of words and pictures. So I'm lucky that all of my work has been illustrated: picture
books, dozens of poems illustrated in magazines and books; even
GIRL COMING IN FOR A LANDING--a novel in poems--has pictures!
Every one of the 100+ poems is illustrated in collage by the
mind, hands and heart of the incredible Elaine Clayton.
And my poetry? Click here to
find my poetry.
New Release!
NEW YEAR AT THE PIER
A Rosh Hashanah Story (Dial), comes out
June 2009--yippee!
The illustrations, by Stéphane
Jorisch, are absolutely gorgeous!
I'm lucky that all of my work has been illustrated: picture
books, dozens of poems in magazines and books; even
GIRL COMING IN FOR A LANDING--a novel in poems--has pictures! Every one of the 100+ poems is illustrated in collage by the incredible Elaine Clayton.
Click
here for 1 minute book trailer
Part
of the pleasure of writing, for me, is sharing. My first
three picture books are now out of print and I want to
share them with you; the manuscripts are yours to download
below.
17 poems & 5 stories are also available on CD.
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GIRL COMING IN FOR A LANDING
GIRL COMING IN FOR A LANDING--A Novel
in Poems...
won the Myra Cohn
Livingston Award for poetry...and
was named an
honor book for the Lee Bennett
Hopkins Award for Children's Poetry--Yippee!
—A Novel in Poems, from Knopf--available in both
hardcover and paperback
Each of the 100+ poems is illustrated in wondrous collages by
Elaine Clayton.
IT'S NOT MY TURN TO LOOK FOR GRANDMA!
Cover illustration © George Booth
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THE
NIGHT HORSE --
A bedtime story written in rhyme.
Cover illustration © Vera Rosenberry
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TO
RABBITTOWN was in print for eight years and
sold 64,000 copies! You can print out the text here.
Cover illustration © Robin
Spowart |
IT’S NOT MY TURN TO LOOK FOR GRANDMA AND OTHER
STORIES
--CD
My CD, which include five stories (IT’S NOT MY TURN
TO LOOK FOR GRANDMA!, THE NIGHT HORSE, TO
RABBITTOWN and two more), 17 poems and a fiddle tune--and
wowee kazowee!--it won the National Association of Parenting Publications (NAPPA)
Gold Award for storytelling.
The CDs are $5
plus shipping
My
poems have been included in many anthologies, including:
LINES IN
THE SAND--NEW WRITING ON WAR AND PEACE
by
Mary Hoffman (Editor),
Rhiannon Lassiter (Editor)
With over 150 poems, stories and pictures about war and peace,
all
royalties from the book will go to UNICEF to directly fund the
bringing of aid to child victims of the war in Iraq. Described
by Publishing News as "one of the hottest books of [the
2003 Bologna Children's Book Fair]" and by the London Sunday
Times as "an uplifting and impassioned collection that goes
beyond ephemeral politics to broaden children¹s understanding of
their own and others' history and to encourage them to aspire to
a better world".
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