Jane Yolen bibliography

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List of works by or about fantasy writer Jane Yolen : [1] [2] [3]

Contents

Novels

The Pit Dragon Chronicles
  1. Dragon's Blood (1982)
  2. Heart's Blood (1984)
  3. A Sending of Dragons (1987)
  4. Dragon's Heart (2009)

Great Alta

  1. Sister Light, Sister Dark (1988, Nebula Award finalist)
  2. White Jenna (1989, Nebula Award finalist)
  3. The One-Armed Queen (1998)

The Young Merlin Trilogy (Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature)

  1. Passager (1996)
  2. Hobby (1996)
  3. Merlin (1997)

Tartan Magic

  1. The Wizard's Map (1999)
  2. The Pictish Child (1999)
  3. The Bagpiper's Ghost (2002)

The Stuart Quartet (with Robert J. Harris)

  1. Queen's Own Fool (2000), based on the life of Nichola a jester at the court of Mary, Queen of Scots
  2. Girl in a Cage (2002)
  3. Prince Across the Water (2004)
  4. The Rogues (2007)

Young Heroes (with Robert J. Harris)

Rock 'n' Roll Fairy Tales (with Adam Stemple)

The Seelie Wars (with Adam Stemple)

Short fiction

Collections

Here There Be... illustrated by David Wilgus

Stories [lower-alpha 1]
TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collectedNotes
Sister Emily's Lightship1997Starlight 1Short story; Nebula Award winner
The Devil's Arithmetic 1988Novella; Nebula Award finalist; basis of the 1999 film The Devil's arithmetic
Lost Girls1998Twelve Impossible Things Before BreakfastNovelette; Nebula Award winner
The Jewel in the Toad Queen's Crown2013Queen Victoria's Book of Spells available online

Children's books and picture books

Fiction picture books

Commander Toad

Piggins (illustrated by Jane Dyer)

How Do Dinosaurs...? (illustrated by Mark Teague)

Baby Bear (illustrated by Melissa Sweet)

Little Frog

Story collections

Songbooks

Literary cookbooks

Nonfiction picture books

An Unsolved Mystery from History (with Heidi E.Y. Stemple; illustrated by Roger Roth)

Poetry

Collections
Anthologies edited
Individual poems
TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collectedNotes
Angels fly because they take themselves lightly1991Yolen, 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 Wild2014Yolen, Jane (December 2014). "Call of the Wild". Asimov's Science Fiction. 38 (12): 53.
Fiddler at midnight2014Yolen, Jane (October–November 2014). "Fiddler at midnight". Asimov's Science Fiction. 38 (10–11): 149.
Perhaps2015Yolen, Jane (February 2015). "Perhaps". Asimov's Science Fiction. 39 (2): 71.
Prince/glass2015Yolen, Jane (March 2015). "Prince/glass". Asimov's Science Fiction. 39 (3): 67.
South of Oz2014Yolen, Jane (June 2014). "South of Oz". Asimov's Science Fiction. 38 (6): 79.
Telling the true2013Yolen, Jane (August 2013). "Telling the true". Asimov's Science Fiction. 37 (8): 55.
Tintagel morning : song1990Yolen, Jane (April 1990). "Tintagel morning : song". Asimov's Science Fiction. 14 (4).
What a time traveler needs most2014Yolen, Jane (March 2014). "What a time traveler needs most". Asimov's Science Fiction. 38 (3): 24.
Will1992Yolen, Jane (Spring 1992). "Will". The Magazine of Speculative Poetry.Also published as a broadside by A Midsummer Night's Press; 1993 Rhysling Award winner.

Graphic novels

Screenplays

As editor

Fiction

Nonfiction

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References

  1. "Jane Yolen – Summary Bibliography". ISFDB. Retrieved 2018-08-10.
  2. "Books by Jane Yolen (Author of The Devil's Arithmetic)". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2018-09-10.
  3. "Jane Yolen — Works". janeyolen.com. Retrieved 2018-09-10.

Notes

  1. Short stories unless otherwise noted.