Books
This is a list of all the books Charlotte has written. Each title is linked to its page on Amazon, where nearly all of them – sometimes new and sometimes used – can be obtained.
Title | Publisher | |||
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Thunderboom! Poems for Everyone | Front Street – Boyds Mills | |||
The Mousery
Christopher Award, 2000 |
Harcourt Brace | |||
The Birthday Letters | Greenwillow | |||
You’re Not My Best Friend Any More
Junior Library Guild Selection, 1998 |
Dial Books | |||
Mangaboom (story of a lady giant)
American Bookseller, Pick of the Lists, 1997 |
Greenwillow | |||
Here Comes Henny (children’s poem inspired by Belinda the hen in Finnegans Wake)
Reprinted in paperback by Mulberry Press in 1997 |
Greenwillow | |||
Halfway to Your House (book of poems) | Greenwillow | |||
The Outside Dog (an I Can Read Book)
Starred reviews in School Library Journal, ALA Booklist, Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, Kirkus Reviews, etc., 1993-94; listed in 100 best books, New York Public Library, 1993; HarperChildren’s Audio, 1993 |
HarperCollins | |||
Serena Katz (adventures of an elderly woman) | Macmillan | |||
Flap Your Wings and Try
Published in Japanese, 1991; published with audiotape by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1993 |
Greenwillow | |||
The Chalk Doll
Top Ten Picture Books, 1989 Boston Globe; Parents Choice Award, 1990; ALA Booklist, 1989; Harper Trophy edition, 1993 |
J.B. Lippincott | |||
Timothy Tall Feather (story of a grandpa who says he is a Native American) | Greenwillow | |||
How Many Trucks Can a Tow Truck Tow?
A Children’s Book of the Year, Library of Congress, 1991 |
Random House | |||
One Duck, Another Duck (counting book)
Published by l’Ecole des Loisirs, France, 1985; UK publication, Julia MacRae, 1985; Picture Puffin, 1986 |
Greenwillow | |||
All Asleep (book of lullabies)
UK publication, Julia MacRae, 1984; Picture Puffin, 1986 |
Greenwillow | |||
The Half-Birthday Party
Junior Literary Guild Selection |
Clarion | |||
Where’s the Bear? (story in seven words)
UK publication, Julia MacRae, 1984; l’Ecole des Loisirs, France, 1984; Picture Puffin, 1985; Picture Corgi, UK, 1987; paperback, Mulberry Books, 1991; Shuntaro Tanikawa, Japan, 1992 |
Greenwillow | |||
Whiff, Sniff, Nibble and Chew: The Gingerbread Boy Retold (in rhyme) | Greenwillow | |||
Posy
Junior Literary Guild Selection; Christopher Award, 1984 |
Greenwillow | |||
Buffy and Albert (book about cats and aging) | Greenwillow | |||
If I Had A Paka: Poems in Eleven Languages
Jane Addams Honor Award, 1983; reprinted, Mulberry Press, 1993 |
Greenwillow | |||
Noah’s and Namah’s Ark (Noah’s Ark retold) | Holt | |||
The Tamarindo Puppy and Other Poems (Spanish/English)
ALA Notable Book; paperback, Mulberry Press, 1993; Reading Rainbow Book, 1985 |
Greenwillow | |||
The Downtown Fairy Godmother
Reprinted, Ms. Magazine; Bantam-Skylark paperback, 1983 |
Addison-Wesley | |||
The Mango Tooth
Junior Literary Guild Selection |
Greenwillow | |||
Detective Poufy’s First Case: or The Missing Battery-Operated Pepper Grinder
Bantam-Skylark paperback, 1983 |
Addison-Wesley | |||
The Ballad of the Long-Tailed Rat | Macmillan | |||
The Piggy in the Puddle
NYT Outstanding Picture Book of the Year; UK publication, Methuen, 1977; Weekly Reader Children’s Book Club; Aladdin Books paperback, 1989; Book of the Month Club Selection, 1990; reprinted in Ladybug, 1991; featured book Reading Rainbow, 1992; Kellogg’s bookmark (“cerealized” author), 1992; Trumpet Book Club, 1993 |
Macmillan | |||
The Princess and the Admiral (adapted from a 13th Century Vietnamese folk tale)
Jane Addams Children’s Book Award, 1974; South Africa publication, Die Kinderpers in Afrikaans, 1978; reprinted in Ms. Magazine; Feminist Press paperback, 1992 |
Addison-Wesley / Young Scott | |||
The Day They Parachuted Cats on Borneo (a drama of ecology in verse-play format)
One of ten IBBY books for International Year of the Child, 1978; Open Court Press anthology, 1994; reprinted in Books for Little Rebels, NYU Press. |
Addison-Wesley / Young Scott | |||
Why You Look Like You (Mendelian genetics) | Young Scott | |||
Ask the Windy Sea (life along the seashore) | Young Scott | |||
The Moon Pony (child’s dream) | Young Scott | |||
The Bear Who Couldn’t Sleep | William Morrow |
Books for Adults
Special Editorial Assistant, Einstein on Peace, Otto Nathan and Heinz Norden (editors), Simon & Schuster, 1960.
Author and editor, A Quarter-Century of Un-Americana — Tragico-Comical Memorabilia of HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) 1938-1963, Marzani and Munsell, 1963.