Jane Yolen

[SFG75]

Don't know if you guys have heard of her. She has a great series of books regarding dinosaurs. I found this out as I checked out How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food? from the local library. The book is very well done artistically and features some eye-catching colors. Age range might be above my oldest(who is 3) but they sit and look through it for good periods of time. Definitely three thumbs up.

 

[Carica]

As far as I can tell, Jane Yolen is one of 'the' names in States-side children's literature, esp. in writing forkloric/magical tales. Like various other writers, she wrote about orphans going to wizard school and making friends and having adventures, long before HP came into the world. I have followed her blog for the last couple of years, and she seems to be a thoughtful and hard-working writer, who consistently writes good stuff.

It's not easy to find her stuff in the UK though, unless you buy off Amazon.

 

[Jeanne-Marie]

SHe has written so many stories about dragons. But her most popular ones would probably be Devil's Arithmetic (about the Holocaust) and Armageddon Summer.