List of works by or about fantasy writer Jane Yolen : [1] [2] [3]
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Great Alta
The Young Merlin Trilogy (Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature)
Tartan Magic
The Stuart Quartet (with Robert J. Harris)
Young Heroes (with Robert J. Harris)
Rock 'n' Roll Fairy Tales (with Adam Stemple)
The Seelie Wars (with Adam Stemple)
Here There Be... illustrated by David Wilgus
Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
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Sister Emily's Lightship | 1997 | Starlight 1 | Short story; Nebula Award winner | |
The Devil's Arithmetic | 1988 | Novella; Nebula Award finalist; basis of the 1999 film The Devil's arithmetic | ||
Lost Girls | 1998 | Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast | Novelette; Nebula Award winner | |
The Jewel in the Toad Queen's Crown | 2013 | Queen Victoria's Book of Spells | available online | |
Piggins (illustrated by Jane Dyer)
How Do Dinosaurs...? (illustrated by Mark Teague)
Baby Bear (illustrated by Melissa Sweet)
Little Frog
An Unsolved Mystery from History (with Heidi E.Y. Stemple; illustrated by Roger Roth)
Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
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Angels fly because they take themselves lightly | 1991 | Yolen, Jane (December 1991). "Angels fly because they take themselves lightly". Asimov's Science Fiction. 15 (14). | 1991 Asimov's Science Fiction Readers' Award, poetry. | |
Call of the Wild | 2014 | Yolen, Jane (December 2014). "Call of the Wild". Asimov's Science Fiction. 38 (12): 53. | ||
Fiddler at midnight | 2014 | Yolen, Jane (October–November 2014). "Fiddler at midnight". Asimov's Science Fiction. 38 (10–11): 149. | ||
Perhaps | 2015 | Yolen, Jane (February 2015). "Perhaps". Asimov's Science Fiction. 39 (2): 71. | ||
Prince/glass | 2015 | Yolen, Jane (March 2015). "Prince/glass". Asimov's Science Fiction. 39 (3): 67. | ||
South of Oz | 2014 | Yolen, Jane (June 2014). "South of Oz". Asimov's Science Fiction. 38 (6): 79. | ||
Telling the true | 2013 | Yolen, Jane (August 2013). "Telling the true". Asimov's Science Fiction. 37 (8): 55. | ||
Tintagel morning : song | 1990 | Yolen, Jane (April 1990). "Tintagel morning : song". Asimov's Science Fiction. 14 (4). | ||
What a time traveler needs most | 2014 | Yolen, Jane (March 2014). "What a time traveler needs most". Asimov's Science Fiction. 38 (3): 24. | ||
Will | 1992 | Yolen, Jane (Spring 1992). "Will". The Magazine of Speculative Poetry. | Also published as a broadside by A Midsummer Night's Press; 1993 Rhysling Award winner. |
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