Jane Yolen is a prolific author who has written more than 365 books during his career. Yes, she has written more than one book for every day in an entire year. She writes books for children and adults. Some of her best known work is the Pit Dragon Chronicles series of books. Her most famous work is The Devil’s Arithmetic, a Puffin Modern Classic.

Yolen was born and raised in New York City. She attended Smith College before heading to the University of Massachusetts where she earned her master’s degree in education. She was later awarded an honorary Doctor of Law degree by Our Lady of the Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts in 1980. The honor cited that “throughout her writing career she has remained true to her primary source of inspiration–folk culture.” Yolen has earned many awards during her career including the Regina Medal, the Kerlan Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Society of Children’s Book Writers Award, the Mythopoetic Society’s Aslan Award, the Christopher Medal, the Boy’s Club Jr. Book Award, and the Garden State Children’s Book Award.

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Publication Order of Books of the Great Alta Books

Sister Light, Sister Dark(1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
White Jenna(1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The One-Armed Queen(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Commander Toad Books

Commander Toad in Space(1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Commander Toad and the Planet of the Grapes(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Commander Toad and the Big Black Hole(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Commander Toad and the Dis-Asteroid(1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Commander Toad and the Intergalactic Spy(1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Commander Toad and the Space Pirates(1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Commander Toad and the Voyage Home(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Fairy Tale Cookbooks Books

Fairy Tale Feasts(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Fairy Tale Desserts(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Fairy Tale Lunches(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Fairy Tale Dinners(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Fairy Tale Breakfasts(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Foiled Books

Publication Order of Here There Be... Books

Here There Be Dragons(1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Here There Be Unicorns(1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Here There Be Witches(1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Here There Be Angels(1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Here There Be Ghosts(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of How Do Dinosaurs...? Books

How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
How Do Dinosaurs Count to Ten?(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
How Do Dinosaurs Clean Their Rooms?(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
How Do Dinosaurs Learn Their Colors?(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
How Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon?(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
How Do Dinosaurs Play with Their Friends?(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
How Do Dinosaurs Go to School?(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
How Do Dinosaurs Say Happy Chanukah?(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You?(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
How Do Dinosaurs Go Up and Down?: A Book of Opposites(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
How Do Dinosaurs Say Happy Birthday?(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
How Do Dinosaurs Say I'M MAD?(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
How Do Dinosaurs Stay Safe?(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
How Do Dinosaurs Stay Friends?(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
How Do Dinosaurs Say Merry Christmas?(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
How Do Dinosaurs Show Good Manners?(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodbye?(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
How Do Dinosaurs Learn to Be Kind?(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
How Do Dinosaurs Say Trick or Treat?(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Isabel the Witch Books

The Witch Who Wasn't(1964)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of On Bird Hill and Beyond Books

Publication Order of Pit Dragons Books

Dragon's Blood(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Heart's Blood(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Sending of Dragons(1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dragon's Heart(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Robot and Rebecca Books

The Case of the Code-Carrying Kids(1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Robot and Rebecca and the Missing Owner(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Rock'n' Roll Fairy Tale Books

Pay the Piper (By: Adam Stemple)(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Troll Bridge(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Publication Order of Stuart Quartet Books

(with Robert J. Harris)

Queen's Own Fool(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Girl in a Cage(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Prince Across the Water(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Rogues(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Tartan Magic Books

The Wizard's Map(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Pictish Child(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Bagpiper's Ghost(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of The Seelie Wars Books

The Hostage Prince(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Last Changeling(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Seelie King's War(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of The Stone Man Mysteries Books

Publication Order of The Young Merlin Trilogy Books

Publication Order of Young Heroes Books

Odysseus in the Serpent Maze(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Hippolyta and the Curse of the Amazons(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Atalanta and the Arcadian Beast(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Jason and the Gorgon's Blood(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Yolen's Short Fiction Books

The Emerald Circus(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
How to Fracture a Fairy Tale(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Midnight Circus(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Scarlet Circus(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Trust a City Kid (With: Anne Huston)(1970)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Inway Investigators(1970)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Transfigured Hart(1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Mermaid's Three Wisdoms(1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Boy Who Spoke Chimp(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Gift of Sarah Barker(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Cards Of Grief(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Children of the Wolf(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Stone Silenus(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Briar Rose(1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Devil's Arithmetic(1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Dragon's Boy(1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Wizard's Hall(1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Wild Hunt(1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Armageddon Summer (With: Bruce Coville)(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Boots and the Seven Leaguers(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sword of the Rightful King(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Except the Queen (With: Midori Snyder)(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Last Dragon(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Snow in Summer(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Curse of the Thirteenth Fey(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
B.U.G.(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Trash Mountain(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Centaur Rising(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Plague of Unicorns(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mapping the Bones(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Finding Baba Yaga(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Last Tsar's Dragons(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodbye?(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Arch of Bone(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

The Girl Who Cried Flowers and Other Tales(1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Hundredth Dove and Other Tales(1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dream Weaver(1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dragonfield and Other Stories(1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Favorite Folktales From Around the World(1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Merlin's Booke(1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tales of Wonder(1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Faery Flag(1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Hark!(1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Storyteller(1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sister Emily's Lightship and Other Stories(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Fish Prince and Other Stories(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Barefoot Book of Ballet Stories(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Grumbles from the Forest (With: Rebecca Kai Dotlich)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Animal Stories(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Emerald Circus(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Once There Was a Story(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Meet Me at the Well(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
How to Fracture a Fairy Tale(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Midnight Circus(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Kaddish: Before the Holocaust and After(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Picture Books

The Sea Man(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Elsie's Bird(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Thunder Underground(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Something New for Rosh Hashanah(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Eeny Up Above(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mrs. Noah's Doves(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Giant Island(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Yuck, You Suck! (With: Heidi E y Stemple)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Deborah's Tree(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
What to Do with a Stick(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Kiki Kicks(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Children's Books

The Bird of Time(1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Girl Who Loved the Wind(1972)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The seeing stick(1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
No Bath Tonight(1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sleeping Ugly (With: Diane Stanley)(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Lullaby Songbook(1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Owl Moon (With: John Schoenherr)(1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dove Isabeau(1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tam Lin(1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Wings (With: Dennis Nolan)(1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Encounter(1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mouse's Birthday(1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Pay the Piper: A Rock 'n' Roll Fairy Tale (With: Adam Stemple)(1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Fever Dream(1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters (By: Kathleen Ragan)(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Prince of Egypt (With: Michael Koelsch)(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Perfect Wizard: Hans Christian Andersen (With: Dennis Nolan)(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sea Queens(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Not All Princesses Dress in Pink(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Day Tiger Rose Said Goodbye(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Waking Dragons(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
You Nest Here with Me (With: Melissa Sweet,Heidi E. Y. Stemple)(2015)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Little Frog and the Scary Autumn Thing(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Last Laughs: Prehistoric Epitaphs(2017)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Crow Not Crow(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Kite for Moon (With: Heidi E.Y. Stemple)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Merbaby's Lullaby(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
School of Fish (With: Mike Moran)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Friendship on the High Seas (With: Mike Moran)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Racing the Waves (With: Mike Moran)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rocking the Tide (With: Mike Moran)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Testing the Waters (With: Mike Moran)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Interrupting Cow (With: Joëlle Dreidemy)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Crossing the Current (With: Mike Moran)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Interrupting Cow and the Chicken Crossing the Road (With: Joëlle Dreidemy)(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Mary Celeste(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Leather Apron Club: Benjamin Franklin, His Son Billy & America's First Circulating Library(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
When Nana Dances (With: Maddison Stemple-Piatt)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
New Tricks for the Old Dog(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Elefantastic!: A Story of Magic in 5 Acts(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Big Bold Beautiful Me (With: Maddison Stemple-Piatt,Chloe Burgett)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Love Birds (With: Anna Wilson)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Interrupting Cow and the Horse of a Different Color (With: Joëlle Dreidemy)(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Schlemiel Comes to America(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Horseback Librarians (With: Alexandra Badiu)(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Straw Bag, Tin Box, Cloth Suitcase: Three Immigrant Voices(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
What to Do with a Box (With: Chris Sheban)(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Interrupting Cow and the Wolf in Sheep's Clothing (With: Joëlle Dreidemy)(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Smout and the Lighthouse: A Story of Robert Louis Stevenson(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tea with an Old Giant(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Nana and Me: Special Poems Just for Us(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mighty Micah (With: Steliyana Doneva)(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
See This Little Dot (With: Laëtitia Devernay)(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Eeny and Her Sisters (With: Kathryn Brown)(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Too Many Golems (With: Maya Shleifer)(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Quiet as Mud (With: Nicole Wong)(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Apple Argument (With: Anita Barghigiani)(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Interrupting Cow Meets the Wise Quacker: Ready-to-Read Level 2 (With: Joëlle Dreidemy)(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Giants' Visitor: A QUIX Book(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Many Problems of Rochel-Leah (With: Felishia Henditirto)(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Giants' Tree House: A QUIX Book(2025)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Animals On Parade (With: Anne Yvonne Gilbert)(2025)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
His Fairytale Life: A Book About Hans Christian Andersen (With: Brooke Boynton-Hughes)(2025)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
How to Spot a Mermaid (With: Sally Deng)(2025)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Monsters of Fife: Sea Dragons (With: Celia Lowenthal)(2025)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Publication Order of Collections

Among Angels: Poems (With: Nancy Willard)(1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Not One Damsel in Distress: Heroic Girls from World Folklore (With: Susan Guevara)(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Grumbles from the Town (With: Rebecca Kai Dotlich)(2021)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
In and Out the Window(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Last Robot and Other Science Fiction Poems(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Oz Reimagined Books

Dorothy Dreams (By: Simon R. Green)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Emeralds to Emeralds, Dust to Dust (By: Seanan McGuire)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Boy Detective of Oz (By: Tad Williams)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Meeting in Oz (By: Jeffrey Ford)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Off to See the Emperor (By: Orson Scott Card)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Cobbler of Oz (By: Jonathan Maberry)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lost Girls of Oz (By: Theodora Goss)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Blown Away(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Tornado of Dorothys (By: Kat Howard)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Veiled Shanghai (By: Ken Liu)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dead Blue (By: David Farland)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Great Zeppelin Heist of Oz (By: C.C. Finlay,Rae Carson)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Beyond the Naked Eye (By: Rachel Swirsky)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
City So Bright (By: Dale Bailey)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
One Flew Over the Rainbow (By: Robin Wasserman)(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Publication Order of MagicQuest Books

The Sherwood Ring (By: Elizabeth Marie Pope)(1958)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Seventh Swan (By: Nicholas Stuart Gray)(1962)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Dragon Hoard (By: Tanith Lee,Graham Oakley)(1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Throme of the Erril of Sherill (By: Patricia A. McKillip)(1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Perilous Gard (By: Elizabeth Marie Pope)(1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Magic Three of Solatia(1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Power of Three (By: Diana Wynne Jones)(1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Time Piper (By: Delia Huddy)(1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Dark Lord of Pengersick (By: Richard Carlyon)(1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
East of Midnight (By: Tanith Lee)(1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Devil on the Road (By: Robert Westall)(1978)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Ash Staff (By: Paul R. Fisher)(1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tulku (By: Peter Dickinson)(1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Magicians of Caprona (By: Diana Wynne Jones)(1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Princess and the Thorn (By: Paul R. Fisher)(1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mont Cant Gold (By: Paul R. Fisher)(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Hawks of Fellheath (By: Paul R. Fisher)(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Talking to Dragons (By: Patricia C. Wrede)(1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Last Days of the Edge of the World (By: Brian M. Stableford)(1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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Publication Order of Anthologies

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If You Like Jane Yolen Books, You’ll Love…

Dragon’s Blood is the first book in the Pit Dragon Chronicles series. The story follows a boy named Jakkin who is working in Sarkkhan’s dragon nursery. Jakkin has plans to steal a baby dragon so that he can train him to fight and earn him enough money to buy himself out of bond.

Jane Yolen’s The Devil’s Arithmetic sees a girl named Hannah who dreads going to her family’s Passover Seder. She is tired of hearing her relatives talk about the past, but she soon learns to understand the effects of the Holocaust. Hannah opens the front door to symbolically welcome the prophet Elijah, but finds herself transported to a Polish village in the year 1942.

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