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.
Bibliography
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.
The Morgans Dream
(Holt, 1995)
The large Morgan family and the dreams they dream one night.
Illustrated by Gary Drake.
Please Don’t Squeeze Your Boa, Noah!
(Holt, 1995)
Silly poems about people and their pets.
Illustrated by Clement Oubrerie.
A Wasp Is Not a Bee
(Holt, 1995)
Animals that are easily confused with each other or with the wrong family. Taxonomy for kids.
Illustrated by Patrick O’Brien.
Chester, The Out of Work Dog
(Holt, 1992)
When Chester’s family moves from the country to the city, the poor border collie is out-of-work. Desperately missing his sheep, he tries to herd everything in sight, with disastrous consequences, until he finally gets a new and most satisfying job.
Illustrated by Cat Bowman Smith.
In My Tent
(Macmillan, 1992)
Episodic poems depicting one family’s camping trip as seen through the eyes of a young girl.
Illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully.
The Golden Heart of Winter
(Morrow, 1991)
To help him choose the next master of the forge, a blacksmith sends his three sons on a quest to bring him back something of value. Kindly Half, the youngest, stops in a magical wood to free an imprisoned raven, who tells him the secret of the most precious object in the world: the Golden Heart of Winter, a glowing heart that beats beneath the ground so that spring will follow winter forever and Life will rule equally with Death. When his two greedy brothers dig up the Heart, it is up to Half to rescue it and save his land from ruin.
Illustrated by Robert Rayevsky.
Nine O’Clock Lullaby
(HarperCollins, 1991)
A lyrical trip through the world’s time zones, starting and ending in Brooklyn, NY.
Illustrated by Frane Lessac.
Exotic Birds
(Doubleday, 1991)
Exotic birds, including eighteen diverse environments and their avian inhabitants.
Illustrated by James Needham.
Twenty Ways to Lose Your Best Friend
(Harper & Row, 1990)
Emma has been taught to “do the right thing.” So she votes for a better actor rather than her best friend to play the lead in the fourth grade class play. When her friend, Sandy, finds out, Emma’s in trouble. A Junior Library Guild selection. A Trumpet Book Club selection (paperback), 1992. Illustrations by Jeffrey Lindberg.
