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MY
BOOKS AND WELCOME TO THEM
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Hi!
Thanks for your interest in my writing!
I write in many genres. I particularly love the juxtaposition
of words and pictures.
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.
My words are also available on CD.
GIRL COMING IN FOR A LANDING
NEWS FLASH!
GIRL COMING IN FOR A LANDING--A Novel
in Poems...
has won the Myra Cohn
Livingston Award for poetry...
and has been named an
honor book for the Lee Bennett
Hopkins Award for Children's Poetry!
...Yippee!
If you'd like an autographed sticker for this book, email
your snail mail address & who you want it autographed to
aprilwayland@aol.com
—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!
Although it’s out of print, I have hundreds of copies of this
book which I sell at schools and through
selected bookstores.
(If you want to buy a book--$15 includes postage--email
me.)
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. It’s also
available as an e-book at ipicturebooks.com.
Cover illustration © Robin
Spowart
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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 $12.97.
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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