ALL PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS AND POETRY
15. Silly Goose: illustrated
by Alison Edgson. Little
co-publishers.
Walker/Bloomsbury
co-publishers internationally.
11. National Geographic Investigates: Ancient
and primary sources, a lively history for elementary and middle-school readers.
7.
6. Jack Takes the Cake: a humorous Easy-Reader. Out-of-print. See details below. Available from author.
5. Wake Up, Me: Simon & Schuster 2002 in the US and Macmillan, UK. illustrated by Sam Williams. Out-of-print.
See details below.
4. Sleepy Me: Simon & Schuster 2001 in the US and Macmillan, UK. illustrated by Sam Williams. Out-of-print.
See details below.
Out of print. See details below.
2. Diego
Columbus, Adventures on the High Seas: historical fiction published by Revell.
POETRY for Children
“Taxi to the Airport”
– in Myra Cohn Livingston’s anthology, Roll
Along, Poems on Wheels
(McElderry/S&S, `93) “Music Becomes Me” – in
“Homemade Ice Cream” – We All Scream for Ice Cream, history of ice cream by Lee Wardlaw: Harper, May 2000
Poems published in Cricket:
1. “Come
Straight Home” (May, 1990)
2. “Daddy
and Me” (June, 1990)
3. “Queen
of Straw” (May, 1996)
4.
“Beach House” (January, 1997)
5.
“Drake of Dreams” (April, 1999)
6.
“Tumble Hill” (September, 2000)
Diego Columbus: Weekly Reader Home Book Club, 1992
The Quiet Farmer: Trumpet Book Club, December 1995
Sleepy Me
and Wake Up, Me: Children’s Book
of the Month Club, Dec. 2002
From Booklist, WAKE UP ME: "To balance the many picture books about going to bed, including McGee and Williams's SLEEPY ME, here's one that recreates a toddlers morning ritual. The large-scale, slightly scruffy drawings are brightened with sunny colors in a series of very appealing double-page spreads.
SLEEPY ME was an ABA Pick of the List and was named by Bank Street College as a "Notable Selection in 2001. Both were included as "Editors' Featured Books in BEST BOOKS FOR CHILDREN UNDER SIX. Santa Barbara reviewer Lin Rolens wrote: "SLEEPY ME is many parents' dream... it is impossible to read this charming book without both a smile and a yawn."
The illustrations of A. Scott Banfill have fascinated readers, adults as well as children, throughout the life of this book. The details are a delight, and the story seems to be a source of comfort and peace. One longtime fan took it with him to college.
From Earthcare, 1995: "This heartwarming tale of nature responding to a child's kindness is our favorite bedtime story. A boy ventures into the woods and loses his way. The forest seems scary until..." the boy rescues a rabbit caught in a trap. Now the "grateful woodland creatures befriend him. A bear feeds him berries and honey; the moon and stars drive away the shadows. One by one, the animals care for him until he falls fast asleep in the woods. Enchanting full-color illustrations are filled with details waiting to be discovered."
JACK TAKES THE CAKE, a Level-2 Troll Easy Reader, illustrated by Dana Regan. According to Papa, young Jack has no common sense at all. He keeps getting things wrong. For example, one day Jack came home with butter dripping in his hair, on his freckles -- even in his ears!
"Jack!," his Papa said. "What happened to you?"
"Butter," said Jack. "Butter happened to me. Granny sent it home for you."
"Jack," cried Papa, "you must have pudding where your brains should be! That is no way to carry butter. I will tell you how. . . "
Will Jack ever figure out how to get something from Granny's house to Papa without winding up in a BIG MESS. DOES Jack have pudding where his brains should be?
