#jane yolen

[thefugitivesaint]

Brad Holland, ''Trust a City Kid'' by Anne Huston & Jane Yolen, 1966 (from ''Images'', 1971) Source

#Brad Holland #american artists #Anne Huston #jane yolen #children's books #children's illustration

[metamorphesque]

1. Look at the world through metaphor, seeing one tree in terms of another.

2. Let two words bump up against another Or seesaw on a single line.

3. Tell the truth inside out Or on the slant.

4. Remember that grammar can be a good friend And a mean neighbor.

5. Let the poem rhyme in the heart, Though not always on the page.

“Five Tips On Writing A Poem”, Jane Yolen

#poetry #writing #literature #jane yolen #quotes #poems

[in-love-with-movies]

The Devil's Arithmetic (1999)

#The Devil's Arithmetic #filmedit #Kirsten Dunst #Brittany Murphy #Donna Deitch #Jane Yolen #my gifs #movie gifs

[eagle-writes]

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood. ~Jane Yolen

Ink: watercolor paint

#calligraphy #calligraphy practice #quotation #bookmark #jane yolen

[uwmspeccoll]

More Fairy Tales

This week I bring you The Girl Who Cried Flowers, and Other Tales, by the prolific American writer Jane Yolen (b.1939), illustrated by David Palladini (1946-2019), and published in New York by Thomas Y. Crowell in 1974. The book contains five original fairy tales with accompanying illustrations that range from one to two pages and are in both black and white and color. Tales such as these among her more than 300 titles has led Newsweek to dub Yolen “The Hans Christian Andersen of America.”

Yolen claims that it was this book, published nine years after her first book, that established her reputation in the field of children’s literature. The title story, The Girl Who Cried Flowers, has seen several iterations, including being separately published in Cricket magazine in 1990, published as an audiotape that Yolen narrated for Weston Woods Studios in their Readings to Remember series, and produced as an animated movie by Auryn Studios, with a script by Yolen, and directed by Bollywood director Umesh Shukla.

Yolen, who had originally worked as an editor, considered herself to be a poet and a journalist/nonfiction writer. Fate took her in a different direction, however, and to her surprise she became a children’s book writer who focused mostly on fantasy and science fiction. Her numerous awards andhonors include a Caldecott Medal, a Caldecott Honor, two Nebula awards, the Jewish Book Award, and six honorary doctorates.

Palladini, an Italian-born American illustrator, was best known for his Aquarian Tarot deck, which was published by Morgan Press in 1970 and reworked as the New Palladini Tarot in 1997 by U.S. Game Systems. Palladini’s style is reminiscent of the Art Nouveau illustrations of Alphonse Mucha and Aubrey Beardsley, a beautiful accompaniment to Jane Yolen’s stories.

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-- Elizabeth V., Special Collections Undergraduate Writing Intern

#women's history month #women writers #woman author of the week #Jane Yolen #David Pallandini #Thomas Y. Crowell Co. #The Girl Who Cried Flowers and Other Tales #fairy tales #children's books #illustrated books #Historical Curriculum Collection #Elizabeth V.

[sabinahahn]

THE MONKEY AND THE CROCODILE

From Favorite Folktales around the world by Jane Yolen.  

“My heart is way up here! If you want it, come for it, come for it!”

#janeyolen #kidlitart #watercolor #anansi #folktale #monkey #crocodile #indianfolktale

#jane yolen #kidlitart #kidlike #watercolor #folktale #monkey #indian folktale

[godzilla-reads]

You know it’s bad when the bookstore knows you specifically as the dragon-reader 😂

Here’s a picture of my haul. I actually went in looking for something else, couldn’t find it, so I got these instead!

🐉 The Dragon Universe by Ablaze

🐉 Dragonfield and Other Stories by Jane Yolen

🐉 The Dragon Hoard by Tanith Lee

#godzilla reads #dragon books #book dragon #bookwyrm #book haul #the dragon universe #dragonfield and other stories #Jane yolen #the dragon hoard #tanith lee #reading #booklr #bookworm #bookish #book blog

[bookcoversonly]

Title: Encounter | Author: Jane Yolen | Publisher: Clarion Books (1996)

#books #Encounter #Jane Yolen

[tachyonpub]

#jane yolen #birthday

[raybeansbooks]

Finding Baba Yaga

Finding Baba Yaga: A Short Novel in Verse - Book in Verse Jane Yolen Published 2018 by Tordotcom

Released in 2018, Finding Baba Yaga: A Short Novel in Verse focuses on a young girl and her time with the Russian Fairy Tale Witch Baga Yaga; who is known to fly around in a mortar, lives in a home that walks around on chicken feet, and has a nose and teeth made of iron. Her being is ageless, both feared and revered in tales.

This tale focuses on a young girl named Natasha, who runs away from home; away from her controlling and harsh father, away from her dormant mother who doesn’t do anything to help. After a week of traveling on her own, Natasha discovers the home of the fairy tale witch Baga Yaga. Under her roof and tutelage, she learns how to take care of and speak up for herself.

This poetic retelling of Baga Yaga speaks to the audience it is written for… it speaks to teenagers with tough familiar relationships learning to express themselves and speak up for themselves and what they believe. We are not encouraging readers to run away and move in with the first old crone that doesn’t eat them but we are offering a chance at discovering one’s own power and encouraging others to find their own.

Jane Yolen’s novel is an excellent, poetic piece of literature within the category of poetry and novel-in-verse. Within an educational setting, this could be a great way to connect discussions on fantasy figures in culture(s) and the stories they hold and lessons they tell as well as a wider conversation on what poetry can be and is. Poetry can be a difficult unit for young writers and readers, learning how to pace and express themselves and interpret others. A novel in verse like this feels like an insightful in between for understanding. Like I mentioned, there could be a crossroads of poetry and folk tale discussion we could reach with a novel-in-verse/ piece of literature like this and it could hold a great place in understanding these genres/ subjects as well as hold a place in educating in a place or program like a workshop or classroom unit.

When I was in school, poetry was a very dividing time for me and other students. We might have been okay writing Hikus in elementary school or memorizing a poem or two in middle or high school… however, it was when we had to start writing our own pieces that things got intimidating and scary, for lack of a better term, and participating without choice in Poetry Out Loud was quite a draining experience. While I can understand where teachers are coming from in hosting these lessons, I wish we had more ebb and flow in regards to what we could do in this unit and how we could do it. Maybe we would have felt more able and willing to open up and express ourselves in this medium if we understood it more. Maybe if we mixed contemporary works into the mix things wouldn’t have been as intimidating and perhaps more personal and fun. Who knows? I do know I discovered my favorite poem to date in this chaos but also lost personal ability to invest in it though I am lucky enough to still recognize appreciation. In the end, I understand we don’t have to like every unit or lesson, that’s totally fine and valid. 

- Ray

11/12/2023

Goodreads. (n.d.). Finding Baba Yaga: A short novel in verse. Goodreads. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39680799-finding-baba-yaga?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_12 

Yolen, J. (2018). Finding Baba Yaga: A short novel in verse. Tor USA.

#book blog #books #ya #fiction #literature #poetry #novel in verse #jane yolen #baba yaga #witches #fairy tales #folk tales #mythology #finding baba yaga #ya lit #ya literature

[the-emerald-wyrm]

The third dragon book I got from the bookstore today, discovering it in their Used section. Yay for Jane Yolen!

⭐️ Dragonfield and Other Stories by Jane Yolen

#emerald wyrm #Dragonfield and other stories #Jane yolen #dragon books #used books #bookdragon #bookwyrm #dragon art #book cover #books and dragons

[vinca-majors]

Jane Yolen’s Dove Isabeau, illustrated by David Yolen

#dove isabeau #jane yolen #david yolen #illustrations #book illustrators #art #fairy tales #dragons #formative things #favorite things

[bookwyrmshoard]

#nanowrimo #writing #writing quotes #on writing #writing encouragement #jane yolen #my quotes

[shesamreads]

These are the covers I remember when I first read The Devil's Arithmetic. The audiobooks on Hoopla is different.

I'm reading this for PopSugar's prompt, "A Book Published the Year You Were Born." I had a few other options in my list as well, but this felt like it was important to reread.

#SheSamReads #The Devil's Arithmetic #Jane Yolen #fiction #Jewish Fiction #Histortical Fiction #Science Fiction #Fantasy

[zombiesun]

It would not have mattered at that moment if what she had written was as banal as the rest. I was caught up in her differences and would have read them into anything she wrote.

Jane Yolen, Cards of Grief

#quotes #bookshelf #jane yolen #cards of grief #this got me

[sabinahahn]

A Man Who Had No Story. From Favorite Folktales from Around the World by Jane Yolen.

But in those days there was a little glen outside of Barr an Ghaoith that they called Alt an Torr and there were remarkably fine rods growing there. But nobody dared cut any rods there, for everyone made out that it was a fairy glen. But one morning Brian said to his wife that if she made him up a little lunch he would go out and cut the makings of a couple of baskets and perhaps no harm would come to him.

The wife got up and made up a lunch for him. He put it in his pocket and he took a hook and a rope under his arm.

#jane yolen #daily drawing #kidlitart #irish folklore #watercolor