Although her picture books include lighthearted narratives such as No Bath Tonight (1978), the story of Jeremy’s attempts to avoid bathing, her best-known picture book texts are sensitive free-verse poems. She has published several volumes of verse, beginning with See This Little Line? in 1963 and including How Beastly!: A Menagerie of Nonsense Poems (1980) and The Three Bears Rhyme Book (1987). Although she has continued to publish an occasional volume of nonfiction, including the biographical Friend: The Story of George Fox and the Quakers (1972), Yolen has concentrated on fiction and poetry. Jane Yolen’s first book for children was Pirates in Petticoats (1963), a factual work about female pirates. After graduation, she worked in publishing for several years, then settled in Massachusetts with her family and embarked on a full-time writing career. She continued to develop her writing and musical skills while attending high school in Connecticut and Smith College in Massachusetts. With a confident writing style and inexhaustible imagination, Jane Yolen has proven herself one of the most prolific and diverse creators in the field of children’s literature.īorn in New York City, Jane Yolen spent her early years in Virginia and California but returned to New York, where she attended grade school and wrote the script, music, and lyrics for school plays.
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