Prairie Dogs Kiss and Lobsters Wave: How Animals Say Hello
(Holt, 1998)
And whales whistle and giraffes lick and chimps hug and zebras chew.
Illustrated by Normand Chartier.
Bibliography
Deal with a Ghost
(Holt, 1997) and (Avon Tempest, 1999)
Forced to live with her cold, disapproving grandmother, sixteen-year-old Deal McCarthy plays the Dating Game to win – even if it means stealing other girls’ boyfriends, then breaking their hearts. Two things can help her break through old patterns and old secrets, if she’ll let them. One is a boy named Laurie Lorber. The other is a ghost.
Bottoms Up! A Book About Rear Ends
(Holt, 1997)
Animal rear ends and their many uses – from cats marking their territory to sea cucumbers housing pearl fish to spiders spinning silk.
Illustrated by Patrick O’Brien.
All We Needed to Say: Poems About School from Tanya and Sophie
(Atheneum, 1996)
School and friendship from the points-of-view of two narrators, Tanya and Sophie.
Photographs by Lorna Clark.
The Maiden on the Moor
(Morrow, 1995)
Two shepherd brothers find a maiden sleeping on a frozen moor. The kind and lonely brother brings her to his house. Day after day, he and his dogs keep watch over her. One night as he sleeps, she awakes and is transformed into a snow goose. But the shepherd is rewarded for his kindness with a new love.
Illustrated by Troy Howell.
In the Palace of the Ocean King
(Atheneum, 1995)
At a duke’s castle, Mariana meets and falls in love with Sylvain. When his ship is wrecked, she, who is afraid of water, must dive to the depths of the sea to rescue him from the powerful Ocean King.
Illustrated by Ted Rand.
Venom
(Darby Creek/Lerner, 2007)
A non-fiction book about venomous and poisonous animals.
Let’s Build A Clubhouse
(Clarion, 2006)
An introduction to tools for young children.
Illustrated by Timothy Bush.
Cats to the Rescue
(Holt, 2006)
True stories and legends about heroic cats around the world.
Illustrated by Jean Cassels.
What Stinks?
(Darby Creek/Lerner, 2006)
A non-fiction book about smelly plants and animals.
Make Me Over: 11 Original Stories About Transforming Ourselves
(Dutton/Penguin, 2005)
Eleven stories about makeovers, physical, psychological, spiritual, etc. edited by Marilyn and including her story “Bedhead Red, Peekaboo Pink,” as well as stories by Joyce Sweeney, Rene Saldana, Jr., Peni Griffin, Joseph Bruchac, Terry Trueman, Jess Mowry, Norma Howe, Marina Budhos, Evelyn Coleman, and Margaret Peterson Haddix.
Monday on the Mississippi
(Holt, 2005)
A lyrical trip down the Mississippi River.
Illustrated by Frane Lessac.
