Purchase Books
Find an independent bookstore near you.
Order from one of my favorite bookstores:
My Publishers
- Atheneum (Simon and Schuster): Monarch and Milkweed
- Candlewick Press: Applesauce Weather and all Collaborations with Rick Lieder
- Holiday House: Blue Daisy
- Macmillan (FSG) (Most of my novels)
- Pioneer Drama: Play: Why Darkness Seems so Light
For Teachers and others who love to share Poetry
- Lee Bennett Hopkins Award-winning Children’s Poetry Books
- Young People’s Poet Laureate
- Teachers and Writers Collaborative
- Sylvia Vardell’s Blog, Poetry for Children
For Writers of Books for Children and Teens
- SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators
- The Authors Guild
- We Need Diverse Books
- Harold Underdown: The Purple Crayon
For Readers of Books for Children and Teens
- We Need Diverse Books
- Sonya Sones’ list of novels-in-poems
- Young Adult Reader Reviews, another good list of novels-in-verse
- Kitaab World: Exploring South Asian Books through Children’s Literature
A few of my friends, collaborators, and other websites I like
- Rick Lieder (photographer / artist /collaborator)
- Cynsations
- Rebecca Kai Dotlitch
- Margarita Engle
- Claire Ewart
- Nikki Grimes
- Katie Hesterman
- J. Patrick Lewis
- Kekla Magoon
- Janet McDonald
- Sarah Miller
- Marilyn Nelson
- Kristine O’Connell George
- Barbara O’Connor
- Mitali Perkins
- Doreen Rappaport
- April Pulley Sayre, in memory
- Lola Schaefer
- Barbara Shoup
- Joyce Sidman
- Marilyn Singer
- Allan Wolf
- Janet Wong