Recent Publications
Books authored
First Boy. New York: Henry Holt, forthcoming (2005). Audio recording by Random House Children's Audio/Listening Library (forthcoming, 2005).
In God's Hands. Woodstock, Vermont: Jewish Lights Publications, forthcoming (2005). With Rabbi Lawrence Kushner. Illustrated by Matthew J. Baek.
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy. New York: Clarion, 2004. Paperback edition from New York: Dell, (forthcoming, 2006). Scholastic Book Club edition (forthcoming, Fall, 2005). Audio recording by Random House Children's Audio/ Listening Library, 2005. Chinese translation from Eastern Publishing (forthcoming, 2007). John Newbery Honor Book, 2005; Michael L. Printz Honor Book, 2005.
A Passionate Usefulness: The Life and Literary Labors of Hannah Adams . Charlottesville, VA :University Press of Virginia, 2004.
The Wonders of Donal O'Donnell. New York: Henry Holt, 2002. Illustrated by Loren Long.
The Great Stone Face: A Retelling of a Tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2002. Illustrated by Bill Farnsworth. Paperback edition from Eerdmans Publishing, 2005. Korean translation from Seoul, Korea: Bomulchango Publishing (forthcoming, 2007).
Edging the Boundaries of Children's Literature. With Carol Winters. New York: Allyn and Bacon, 2001.
Mara's Stories. New York: Henry Holt, 2001. “The Violinist and the Master” reprinted in Cicada (July/August, 2003): 69-73.
Straw into Gold. New York: Clarion Books, 2001. A Houghton Mifflin Imprint.
Anson's Way. New York: Clarion Books, 1999. A Houghton Mifflin Imprint. Paperback edition from New York: Puffin, 2001.
Ciaran: The Tale of a Saint of Ireland. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2000. Todd L.W. Doney, illustrator.
William Bradford. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdman's Publishing Company, 1998.
Robert Lawson. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1997. Twayne's United States Authors Series.
The Blessing of the Lord. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing, 1997. Dennis Nolan, illustrator.
Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Writers for Children, 1914-1960 . Volume 4. Co-edited with Donald R. Hettinga. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli, Clark, Layman, 1996.
The Sin Eater. New York: Dutton Publishers, 1996. A Lodestar Book. Paperback edition from New York: Puffin, 1998. Audio recording by Recorded Books (Prince Frederick, MD: 1997).
The Iconography of the Mouth of Hell. Selinsgrove, Penn.: Susquehanna University Press, 1995.
Katherine Paterson. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1994. Twayne's United States Authors Series. Published also in Twayne's Women Authors on CD-ROM, 1995.
John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1994. Barry Moser, illustrator. Anthologized in A World of Literature 6 (Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Schools International, 1995): 224-240. Audio recording, LaBaron Productions, Miami Lakes, Florida,1998. Musical recording by Jim Winder as The Hard But Right Way, a NoteBook Records Production, 2001. Chinese translation, Taipei, Taiwan: Taosheng Publishing House [forthcoming, 2006].
Robert Frost. New York: Sterling Publishing Company, 1994. Henri Sorenson, illustrator. Republished in The Blackbirch Treasury of American Poetry for Young People. Woodbridge, CT: Blackbirch Press, 2001.
Communities of Discourse: The Rhetoric of Disciplines. Co-edited with William Vande Kopple. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1993. Instructor's Manual with William Vande Kopple.
Supplementary Essays for College Writers. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1988. Second edition 1991, Third edition, 1993.
Sitting at the Feet of the Past: Retelling the North American Folktale for Children. Co-edited with Donald R. Hettinga. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992.
Hugh Lofting. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1992. Twayne's British Authors Series. Published also in Twayne's English Authors on CD-ROM, 1997.
Robert McCloskey. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1990. United States Authors Series.
The Voice of the Narrator in Children's Literature. Co-edited with Charlotte F. Otten. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1989.
Books edited
Spring: A Spiritual Biography. Woodstock, Vermont: Skylight Paths Press, forthcoming (2006). Edited with Susan Felch. Illustrated by Mary Azarian.
Summer: A Spiritual Biography. Woodstock, Vermont: Skylight Paths Press, forthcoming (2005). Edited with Susan Felch. Illustrated by Barry Moser.
Autumn: A Spiritual Biography. Woodstock, Vermont: Skylight Paths Press, 2004. Edited with Susan Felch. Illustrations by Mary Azarian.
Winter: A Spiritual Biography. Woodstock, Vermont: Skylight Paths Press, 2002. Edited with Susan Felch. Illustrations by Barry Moser.
Aricles (2000- )
“Biography,” in Connie Ann Kirk, ed., Encyclopedia of American Children's and Young Adult Literature. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, forthcoming, 2005.
“Seven Advantages to Writing with a Computer—and Why No Writer Should Ever Use Them.” Christian School Teacher, forthcoming.
Review of Maria Tatar, Secrets Beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives. The Lion and the Unicorn (forthcoming).
Review of Lois Thomas Stover, Jacqueline Woodson: “The Real Thing ,” and Julius Lester, On Writing for Children and Other People. The Lion and the Unicorn (forthcoming). With Millie Jackson.
“Michael and Jeff Shaara,” in Thomas McCarthy, ed., Popular Contemporary Writers, Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish Reference Books, forthcoming.
“Medieval Literature as Children's Literature.” Review of Barbara Tepa Lupack, ed., Adapting the Arthurian Legends for Children: Essays on Arthurian Juvenilia , and Velma Bourgeois Richmond , Chaucer as Children's Literature: Retellings from the Victorian and Edwardian Eras. The Lion and the Unicorn 29.2 (April, 2005): 276-280.
“So Who Can Tell Such a Story?” Horn Book 82.2 (March-April, 2005): 153-162.
“Engaging Harry Potter as Books, Product, and Social Phenomenon.” Review of Giselle Liza Anatol's Reading Harry Potter: Critical Essays , and Lana Whitehead's The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter. The Lion and Unicorn 29.1 (January, 2005): 136-140.
“Anne, Rebecca, Polly, and Nancy in the Marketplace.” Review of Peter Stoneley's Consumerism and American Girls' Literature, 1860-1940. The Lion and Unicorn 28 (January, 2004): 163-166.
“The Hope of the Shared Burden: Thematic Continuity and Paradigmatic Shifting In the Retellings and ShortFiction of Katherine Paterson.” In Bridges for the Young: The Fiction of Katherine Paterson, edited by Joel D. Chaston and M. Sarah Smedman. Lanham , Maryland : Rowan and Littlefield, 2003. 268-291.
“The Impossibility of Meaning.” Review of Hamida Bosmajian's Sparing the Child: Grief and the Unspeakable in Youth Literature , and Adrienna Kurtzer's My Mother's Voice: Children, Literature, and the Holocaust. The Lion and Unicorn 27 (April, 2003): 277-281.
“The Moral Imagination in Children's Books.” Christian School Teacher 3 (Fall, 2001): 9-13.
“Bede” [54-55], “Bernard the Wise” [60], “Daniel the Abbot” [147], “John Phocas” [477], and “William Wey” [641-642] in John B. Friedman, ed., Medieval Trade, Travel, and Exploration: An Encyclopedia. (New York : Garland Publishing, 2000.
“The Last Taboo: Spiritual Life in Children's Literature.” Five Owls 15 (November/ December, 2000): 25-30.
“Defamiliarizing, and So Retelling, the Stories of the Bible.” Five Owls 14 (March/ April, 2000): 102-103.
“The Dangerous Harry Potter.” Christian Home and School 78 (March/April, 2000): 26-27. Reprinted in Spirit Catalyst 10 (July, 2000): 1,3. |
