Short stories and poems all written by me, having to do with angels. A few–like “Angelica” had been published before. But a number are brand new to the book, like “Fallen Angel,” a story about an angel whose wings have been burned up when he falls
Here There Be Dragons
Short stories and poems, all written by me, having to do with dragons. This was the first of the five HERE THERE BE. . .books. Since I’d already written many dragon short stories, I only needed to write one new one–a Chinese dragon story. Included here is “Cockfight,” which started the Pit Dragon Trilogy
Here There Be Ghosts
Short stories and poems, all written by me, having to do with ghosts. As I had written very few ghost stories up to that point, most of them are new. Included are “Mandy” about a ghost dog based on the dog I owned when I was a teenager and
Here There Be Unicorns
Short stories and poems, all written by me and having to do with unicorns. Among the stories is the much reprinted “The Boy Who Drew Unicorns.” Each story and poem begins with a short introduction about how it came to be written.
Here There Be Witches
Short stories and poems, all written by me and having to do with witches. A number of them had been published already, but there are new stories as well. Each story and poem begins with a short introduction about how it came to be written.
Here’s a Little Poem
Andrew Fusek Peters of Shropshire, England, the well-known young (but VERY tall) British poet for children, emailed me and asked if I would be interested in working on an anthology of poems about a child’s day with him. He would choose the British poets and me the Americans. He’d already
Hip Hippos
Key-Porter is a Canadian publisher, and this is how I got to them. My friend Jonathan Schmidt (and ex-editor at Tor) moved to Canada to be married and settle north of the border, and soon became head of trade books there. He introduced me to the children’s book editor, Linda Prussen, hoping I
History Mystery: Roanoke, The Lost Colony
In many ways this book was the hardest of all to write so far of the Unsolved Mysteries, because it had three separate stories of travel to America by boat, with slaughters on all sides, and then a missing colony. Also, because it dealt in part with
History Mystery: The Mary Celeste
I had the idea for a series of true unsolved mysteries from history in picture book form because of my daughter Heidi’s interest in criminal justice. (She’s been both a probation officer and a private detective.) We began with
History Mystery: The Salem Witch Trials
When we were still in the research phase of this book, Heidi and her daughters and their friends, the Napiers of Myrtle Beach, went on a road trip to Salem to get the feel of the area and pick up more books. Heidi came back with a bumper sticker that said,