Bibliography

Have You Heard About Lady Bird?

(Disney-Hyperion, 2018)
Poems about all of our First Ladies.
Illustrated by Nancy Carpenter.

Every Month Is A New Year

(Lee & Low, 2018)
Poems about New Year celebrations around the globe.
Illustrated by Susan L. Roth.

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.

The Case of the Cackling Car

(Harper & Row, 1985)
Sam and Dave uncover a parrot smuggling operation while visiting an aunt in a town on the Tex-Mex border.
Illustrations by Judy Glasser.

A Clue in Code

(Harper & Row, 1985)
The Bean brothers hunt for the thief who stole the class trip money. Their clue? A mysterious cipher found in a desk.
Illustrations by Judy Glasser.

Archer Armadillo’s Secret Room

(Macmillan, 1985)
When Archer’s family moves away from “the best burrow in the state of Texas,” a distressed Archer runs back to his old home.
Illustrated by Beth Lee Weiner.

The Case of the Sabotaged School Play

(Harper & Row, 1984)
Sam and Dave try to discover who is sabotaging the school play and why.
Illustrations by Judy Glasser.

(Harper & Row, 1984)
Sam and Dave are hired by Rita O’Toole, their sidekick-to-be, to find her missing brother, Leroy. In the process, they stumble upon a bookmaking operation.
Illustrations by Judy Glasser.

The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth

(Harper & Row, 1983)

Becky and Nemi, fast friends, find their relationship problematic when they both become involved in their high school production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Their love lives, and those of their friends, parallel those of the play.