Every Month Is A New Year
(Lee & Low, 2018)
Poems about New Year celebrations around the globe.
Illustrated by Susan L. Roth.
Bibliography
Feel the Beat!: Dance Poems that Zing from Salsa to Swing
(Dial/Penguin, 2017)
Poems about social dances in the rhythms of those dances.
Illustrated by Kristi Valiant.
Miss Muffet, Or What Came After
(Clarion, 2016)
What did happen to Miss Muffet after the spider sat beside her? A wacky verse play featuring many nursery rhyme characters.
Illustrated by David Litchfield.
What’s A Banana?
(Abrams, 2016)
What can you do with a banana? A young picture book.
Illustrated by Greg Pizzoli.
What’s An Apple?
(Abrams, 2016)
What can you do with an apple? A young picture book.
Illustrated by Greg Pizzoli.
Echo Echo: Reverso Poems about Greek Myths
(Dial/Penguin, 2016)
The third book of reverso poems, this time based on Greek myths.
Illustrated by Josée Masse.
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.
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.
