Order of Jane Yolen Books
Jane Yolen is a prolific author who has written more than 365 books during his career. Yes, she has written more than one book for every day in an entire year. She writes books for children and adults. Some of her best known work is the Pit Dragon Chronicles series of books. Her most famous work is The Devil’s Arithmetic, a Puffin Modern Classic.
Yolen was born and raised in New York City. She attended Smith College before heading to the University of Massachusetts where she earned her master’s degree in education. She was later awarded an honorary Doctor of Law degree by Our Lady of the Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts in 1980. The honor cited that “throughout her writing career she has remained true to her primary source of inspiration–folk culture.” Yolen has earned many awards during her career including the Regina Medal, the Kerlan Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Society of Children’s Book Writers Award, the Mythopoetic Society’s Aslan Award, the Christopher Medal, the Boy’s Club Jr. Book Award, and the Garden State Children’s Book Award.
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Publication Order of Isabel the Witch Books
| The Witch Who Wasn't | (1964) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Robot and Rebecca Books
| The Case of the Code-Carrying Kids | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Robot and Rebecca and the Missing Owner | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Commander Toad Books
| Commander Toad in Space | (1980) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Commander Toad and the Planet of the Grapes | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Commander Toad and the Big Black Hole | (1983) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Commander Toad and the Dis-Asteroid | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Commander Toad and the Intergalactic Spy | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Commander Toad and the Space Pirates | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Commander Toad and the Voyage Home | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Pit Dragons Books
| Dragon's Blood | (1982) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Heart's Blood | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Sending of Dragons | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dragon's Heart | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Books of the Great Alta Books
| Sister Light, Sister Dark | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| White Jenna | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The One-Armed Queen | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Here There Be... Books
| Here There Be Dragons | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Here There Be Unicorns | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Here There Be Witches | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Here There Be Angels | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Here There Be Ghosts | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of The Young Merlin Trilogy Books
| Passager | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hobby | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Merlin | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Tartan Magic Books
| The Wizard's Map | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Pictish Child | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Bagpiper's Ghost | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Stuart Quartet Books
(with Robert J. Harris)
| Queen's Own Fool | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Girl in a Cage | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Prince Across the Water | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Rogues | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Young Heroes Books
| Odysseus in the Serpent Maze | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hippolyta and the Curse of the Amazons | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Atalanta and the Arcadian Beast | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Jason and the Gorgon's Blood | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Rock'n' Roll Fairy Tale Books
| Pay the Piper | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Troll Bridge | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Foiled Books
| Foiled | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Curses! Foiled Again | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of The Seelie Wars Books
| The Hostage Prince | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Last Changeling | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Seelie King's War | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of The Stone Man Mysteries Books
| Stone Cold | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sanctuary | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Breaking Out the Devil | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
| The Girl Who Cried Flowers and Other Tales | (1974) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Hundredth Dove and Other Tales | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dream Weaver | (1979) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dragonfield and Other Stories | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Merlin's Booke | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Favorite Folktales From Around the World | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tales of Wonder | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Faery Flag | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Hark! | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Storyteller | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Sister Emily's Lightship and Other Stories | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Fish Prince and Other Stories | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Barefoot Book of Ballet Stories | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Grumbles from the Forest | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Animal Stories | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Emerald Circus | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Once There Was a Story | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Meet Me at the Well | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| How to Fracture a Fairy Tale | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Midnight Circus | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Kaddish: Before the Holocaust and After | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Picture Books
| The Sea Man | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Elsie's Bird | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Thunder Underground | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Something New for Rosh Hashanah | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Eeny Up Above | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mrs. Noah's Doves | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Giant Island | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Yuck, You Suck!: Poems about Animals That Sip, Slurp, Suck | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Deborah's Tree | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| What to Do with a Stick | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Kiki Kicks | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Children's Books
| The Bird of Time | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The seeing stick | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Sleeping Ugly | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Owl Moon | (1987) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Dove Isabeau | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Wings | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Encounter | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Mouse's Birthday | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Pay the Piper: A Rock 'n' Roll Fairy Tale | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Fever Dream | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Prince of Egypt | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Perfect Wizard: Hans Christian Andersen | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Day Tiger Rose Said Goodbye | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| You Nest Here with Me | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Little Frog and the Scary Autumn Thing | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Last Laughs: Prehistoric Epitaphs | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| A Kite for Moon | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| School of Fish | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Friendship on the High Seas | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Racing the Waves | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Rocking the Tide | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Testing the Waters | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Interrupting Cow | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Crossing the Current | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Interrupting Cow and the Chicken Crossing the Road | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Mary Celeste | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Leather Apron Club: Benjamin Franklin, His Son Billy & America's First Circulating Library | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| When Nana Dances | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| New Tricks for the Old Dog | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Elefantastic!: A Story of Magic in 5 Acts | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Big Bold Beautiful Me | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Love Birds | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Interrupting Cow and the Horse of a Different Color | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Schlemiel Comes to America | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Horseback Librarians | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Straw Bag, Tin Box, Cloth Suitcase: Three Immigrant Voices | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| What to Do with a Box | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Interrupting Cow and the Wolf in Sheep's Clothing | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Smout and the Lighthouse: A Story of Robert Louis Stevenson | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Tea with an Old Giant | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Nana and Me: Special Poems Just for Us | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Mighty Micah | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| See This Little Dot | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Eeny and Her Sisters | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Too Many Golems | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Quiet as Mud | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Apple Argument | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Interrupting Cow Meets the Wise Quacker: Ready-to-Read Level 2 | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Giants' Visitor: A QUIX Book | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Many Problems of Rochel-Leah | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Giants' Tree House: A QUIX Book | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Animals On Parade | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| His Fairytale Life: A Book About Hans Christian Andersen | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| How to Spot a Mermaid | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Monsters of Fife: Sea Dragons | (2025) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of How Do Dinosaurs...? Books
| How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| How Do Dinosaurs Count to Ten? | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| How Do Dinosaurs Clean Their Rooms? | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| How Do Dinosaurs Learn Their Colors? | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon? | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| How Do Dinosaurs Play with Their Friends? | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| How Do Dinosaurs Go to School? | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| How Do Dinosaurs Say Happy Chanukah? | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You? | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| How Do Dinosaurs Go Up and Down?: A Book of Opposites | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| How Do Dinosaurs Say Happy Birthday? | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| How Do Dinosaurs Say Merry Christmas? | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| How Do Dinosaurs Say I'M MAD? | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| How Do Dinosaurs Stay Safe? | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| How Do Dinosaurs Stay Friends? | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| How Do Dinosaurs Say Merry Christmas? | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| How Do Dinosaurs Show Good Manners? | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodbye? | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| How Do Dinosaurs Learn to Be Kind? | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| How Do Dinosaurs Say Trick or Treat? | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Oz Reimagined Books
| Dorothy Dreams | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Emeralds to Emeralds, Dust to Dust | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Boy Detective of Oz | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| A Meeting in Oz | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Off to See the Emperor | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Cobbler of Oz | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Lost Girls of Oz | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Blown Away | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| A Tornado of Dorothys | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Veiled Shanghai | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Dead Blue | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| The Great Zeppelin Heist of Oz | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Beyond the Naked Eye | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| City So Bright | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| One Flew Over the Rainbow | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Rebecca Kai Dotlich Collections
(with Rebecca Kai Dotlich)
| Grumbles from the Forest | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| One Day, The End | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Lemonade Sun | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Grumbles from the Town | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Robert J. Harris Short Stories/Novellas
(with Robert J. Harris)
| Studies in Stone | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
| Straight And True | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com | ||
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Publication Order of Collections
| Among Angels: Poems | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Not One Damsel in Distress: Heroic Girls from World Folklore | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Grumbles from the Town | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| In and Out the Window | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Last Robot and Other Science Fiction Poems | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Bruce Coville's Book Of... Books
| Bruce Coville's Book of Monsters: Tales to Give You the Creeps | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of MagicQuest Books
Publication Order of The Jane Yolen Classic Fantasy Stories Books
| The Scarlet Circus | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
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If You Like Jane Yolen Books, You’ll Love…
Dragon’s Blood is the first book in the Pit Dragon Chronicles series. The story follows a boy named Jakkin who is working in Sarkkhan’s dragon nursery. Jakkin has plans to steal a baby dragon so that he can train him to fight and earn him enough money to buy himself out of bond.
Jane Yolen’s The Devil’s Arithmetic sees a girl named Hannah who dreads going to her family’s Passover Seder. She is tired of hearing her relatives talk about the past, but she soon learns to understand the effects of the Holocaust. Hannah opens the front door to symbolically welcome the prophet Elijah, but finds herself transported to a Polish village in the year 1942.