Bibliography

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.

Tallulah’s Tap Shoes

(Clarion, 2015)
Tallulah is not keen about taking tap dance at dance camp. Will she change her mind?
Illustrated by Alexandra Boiger.

I’m Gonna Climb A Mountain In My Patent Leather Shoes

(Abrams, 2014)
Sadie goes camping in the wackiest wardrobe ever! A rhymed picture book.
Illustrated by Lynne Avril.

Rutherford B., Who Was He?

(Disney-Hyperion, 2013)
Poems about our presidents.
Illustrated by John Hendrix.

Sixteen-year-old Franny Yeager, the “good girl” of the family, tries to hide her burgeoning love for a Japanese-American boy since her father is rabidly anti-Japanese. Complicating matters is the illness of her beloved grandmother with whom she shares a room. Published in Great Britain by Pan Macmillan.

The Lightey Club

(Four Winds Press, 1987)
Three sisters, forced to spend the summer with their grandparents whom they don’t like, decide to form the Lightey Club. At each meeting, Henny, the oldest sister, recounts a new tale about Lightey the Lightning Bug and his insect pals. Henny’s stories help change a bad vacation into a magical one.
Illustrations by Kathryn Brown.

Ghost Host

(Harper & Row, 1987)
Sixteen-year-old Bart Hawkins, star quarterback, learns that his house is haunted when Millicent, a sixteen-year-old “spokespook” for nine other ghosts, asks his help in ridding the place of a new and obnoxious poltergeist. With her help, Bart, who has been hiding his brains and love of reading, learns to be truthful about himself to his friends and his girlfriend.

Mitzi Meyer, Fearless Warrior Queen

(Scholastic, 1987)

Mitzi is afraid of everything until a “psychic” named Madame Blini tells her that she was Queen Boadicea in a past life.

Lizzie Silver Of Sherwood Forest

(Harper & Row, 1986)
Lizzie’s latest obsession, in this sequel to Tarantulas on the Brain, is Robin Hood, leading to some misadventures at a Medieval Faire. In addition, to keep her best friend Tessa from going off to music school without her, Lizzie tries to learn the harp, with less than satisfactory results.
Illustrations by Miriam Nerlove.

Where There’s a Will, There’s a Wag

(Holt, 1986)
Did the wealthy Carlotta Bucks really leave all her money to a cat? Sam will find out.
Illustrations by Andrew Glass.