Order of Jane Yolen Books
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 Isabel the Witch Books
The Witch Who Wasn't | (1964) | 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 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 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 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 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 The Young Merlin Trilogy Books
Passager | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Hobby | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Merlin | (1997) | 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 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 Young Heroes Books
(with Robert J. Harris)
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 Rock'n' Roll Fairy Tale Books
Pay the Piper | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Troll Bridge | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Foiled Books
Foiled | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Curses! Foiled Again | (2013) | 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
Stone Cold | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Sanctuary | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Breaking Out the Devil | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
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 |
Merlin's Booke | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Favorite Folktales From Around the World | (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: Fairy-Tale Voices with a Twist | (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
(with Eugenia Nobati, Heidi E y Stemple, Ariel Stemple)
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!: Poems about Animals That Sip, Slurp, Suck | (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
(with Heidi E.Y. Stemple, Dennis Nolan, Alexandra Badiu, Maddison Stemple-Piatt, Anna Wilson)
The Bird of Time | (1971) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The seeing stick | (1977) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Sleeping Ugly | (1981) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Dove Isabeau | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Wings | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Encounter | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Mouse's Birthday | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Fever Dream | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Perfect Wizard: Hans Christian Andersen | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Day Tiger Rose Said Goodbye | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
You Nest Here with Me | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Last Laughs: Prehistoric Epitaphs | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
A Kite for Moon | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
School of Fish | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Friendship on the High Seas | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
How Do Dinosaurs Say Merry Christmas? | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Racing the Waves | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Rocking the Tide | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Testing the Waters | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Interrupting Cow | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Crossing the Current | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Interrupting Cow and the Chicken Crossing the Road | (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 | (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 | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Love Birds | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Interrupting Cow and the Horse of a Different Color | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Schlemiel Comes to America | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Horseback Librarians | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Interrupting Cow and the Wolf in Sheep's Clothing | (2023) | 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 Eat Their Food? | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You? | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
How Do Dinosaurs Say I'M MAD? | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
How Do Dinosaurs Learn to Be Kind? | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Laksa Anthology Books
Strangers Among Us: Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Shades Within Us: Tales of Migrations and Fractured Borders | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Seasons Between Us: Tales of Identities and Memories | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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Publication Order of Oz Reimagined Books
Dorothy Dreams | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Emeralds to Emeralds, Dust to Dust | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Boy Detective of Oz | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
A Meeting in Oz | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Off to See the Emperor | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Cobbler of Oz | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Lost Girls of Oz | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Blown Away | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
A Tornado of Dorothys | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Veiled Shanghai | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Dead Blue | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Great Zeppelin Heist of Oz | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Beyond the Naked Eye | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
City So Bright | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
One Flew Over the Rainbow | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Robert J. Harris Short Stories/Novellas
(with Robert J. Harris)
Studies in Stone | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Straight And True | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Susan Guevara as Illustrator Books
Emmett's Snowball | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Class With the Summer Birthdays | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
I Have an Aunt on Marlborough Street | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Boardwalk Princess | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The King's Commissioners | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Chato's Kitchen | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Italy | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
My Daughter, My Son, The Eagle, The Dove | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Not One Damsel in Distress: Heroic Girls from World Folklore | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Chato and the Party Animals | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Tiger, Tiger | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Isabel's House of Butterflies by Tony Johnston | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Chato Goes Cruisin' | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Lady in the Blue Cloak | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Tales Our Abuelitas Told: A Hispanic Folktale Collection | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Número Uno | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Wild Women of the Wild West | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Voice from Afar: Poems of Peace | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Little Roja Riding Hood | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
A Journey Toward Hope | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Collections
Among Angels: Poems | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of The Jane Yolen Classic Fantasy Stories Books
The Scarlet Circus | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Shape Shifters: Fantasy and Science Fiction Tales About Humans Who Can Change Their Shapes | (1978) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series XII | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Moonsinger's Friends: An Anthology in Honor of Andre Norton | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Dragons & Dreams | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 12 | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Unicorn Treasury: Stories, Poems, and Unicorn Lore | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
First Annual Collection | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Demons & Dreams: The Best Fantasy and Horror 1 | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Dragons and Warrior Daughters | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Pendragon Chronicles: Heroic Fantasy from the Time of King Arthur | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Second Annual Collection | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Third Annual Collection | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Halloween Poems | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Year's Best Fantasy 2 / Demons and Dreams | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Drabble II: Double Century | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Spells of Enchantment | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
After the King | (1991) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Fifth Annual Collection | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Inside the Funhouse | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
A Wizard's Dozen | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Snow White, Blood Red | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Ultimate Witch | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
South From Midnight | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Xanadu | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Seventh Annual Collection | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Black Thorn, White Rose | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Armless Maiden | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Angels! | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Book of Kings | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Blood Muse | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Women at War | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Year's Best Fantasy & Horror: Tenth Annual Collection | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Starlight 1 | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Out of the Mold | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Modern Classics of Fantasy | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Random House Book of Fantasy Stories | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Black Swan, White Raven | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Eleventh Annual Collection | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
In the Shadow of the Gargoyle | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Nebula Awards 33 | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Sherwood | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Crafty Cat Crimes | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Ribbiting Tales | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Black Heart, Ivory Bones | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Mr. Simonelli or the Fairy Widower | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Nebula Awards 34 (2000) | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Mirror, Mirror: Forty Folk Tales for Mothers and Daughters to Share | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Such a Pretty Face: Tales of Power and Abundance | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Starlight 3 | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Fourteenth Annual Collection | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Writer's Guide to Fantasy Literature | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Fire and Wings: Dragon Tales from East and West | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Fifteenth Annual Collection | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
New Skies: An Anthology of Today's Science Fiction | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
New Magics | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Unexpected | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Jabberwocky 2 | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Best New Paranormal Romance | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Be Careful What You Wish For | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Coyote Road: Trickster Tales | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Firebirds Soaring | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Amazing Faces | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Visitants | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Happily Ever After | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
What You Wish For: A Book for Darfur | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Conclave | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Witches: Wicked, Wild & Wonderful | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Where Rockets Burn Through | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 35, April 2013 | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Oz Reimagined | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The 2013 Rhysling Anthology | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Beyond the Pale | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Futuredaze 2: Reprise | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Mythic Delirium Magazine Issue 1.4 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Scarecrow | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Been There, Done That | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Mythic Delirium: Volume Two | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Warrior Women | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Shoreline of Infinity 3 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
One Minute till Bedtime | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The 2017 Rhysling Anthology | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Shoreline of Infinity 8½: Edinburgh International Book Festival Special Edition | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Mad Hatters and March Hares | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Shoreline of Infinity 11½: Edinburgh International Science Festival Special Edition | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Nebula Awards 52 (2018) | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Mammoth Book of Halloween Stories | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Multiverse: an international anthology of science fiction poetry | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Thanku | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Wonderland | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Coffin Bell Two | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Edited By | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Wicked Women: An Anthology of the New England Horror Writers | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Shadow Atlas: Dark Landscapes of the Americas | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Reinvented Heart | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
The Heartbeat of the Universe: Poems from Asimov’s Science Fiction and Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2012–2022 | (2024) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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.