Jane Yolen Children Books Review & Giveaway

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I LOVE Jane Yolen’s books!  Some of our favorite books belong to the “How Does A Dinosaur…” series (i.e. How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?).  Thanks to RAAB Associates, we had the opportunity to review a few of Yolen’s newer titles, including Come to the Fairies’ Ball, How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You?,

We enjoyed reading Come to the Fairies’ Ball. It was a fun book and a twist of the classic Cinderella story.  Everyone is getting ready for the Fairies’ Ball – pulling out their spiderweb dresses and top hats.  All accept one, whose dress is torn from hanging on a thorn.  With the help of the ants, the Fairy put together a dress and headed to the ball.  See what happens next when you read Come to the Fairies’ Ball.  The book retails for $17.99 and is available on Amazonfor $12.21 right now.

We love the book, How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You?  It’s one of my favorites to read to my kids and my kids love interacting with it!  The book is full of rhymes, funny dinosaur moments, and a loving, happy tone.  I love the illustrations in the book as well.  This is definitely a book you should check out, if not own.  How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You is available in bookstores and on Amazonfor a price of $11.55 (retails for $16.99).

I was really impressed by The Seeing Stick  It was not only a great book for kids, but one that adults would enjoy reading as well.  The ending was beautiful and the pictures were gorgeous throughout the book, plus I loved the overall Chinese theme.  My boys sat quietly and listened as I read this book.  The story is about Hwei Min, the only daughter of the emperor of China, who’s been blind since she was born.  The emperor looks everywhere for a cure for his little girl and calls people from near and far to help, but nobody can.  Then one day, a wise old man with mysterious Seeing Stick visits her and opens her eyes to a whole new world.  This is a highly recommended book in my opinion.  You can find it in bookstores or on Amazonfor $11.53 (retails for $16.95) right now.

I loved the book, The Scarecrow’s Dance!  The artwork was beautiful and the story was a sweet one.  The Scarecrow’s Dance is about a scarecrow who has always stood watch over the corn, but one night he gets restless and leaves his post.  He skips through the fields and leaps past the barn, but is stopped by a little boy’s prayer for the farm.  As he listens, he begins to understand where he belongs and his importance there, where he can do what only he can do.  This is a really great book and I’m so glad we were able to review it!   You can find it in bookstores and on Amazon for $12.23 (retails for $16.99) right now.

We enjoyed reading the book, Pumpkin Baby, as well!  In Pumpkin Baby, a young child is anticipating the arrival of a new sibling.  As she goes with her mom on trips to the family farm, a meeting with the mailman, and more, she imagines different babies, each with unique characteristics and flaws.  She imagines a stork baby that could fly away, a pumpkin baby that might be too round, and other babies.  This is definitely a cute, kid-friendly book!  You can find Pumpkin Baby in bookstores and on Amazonfor $13.22 (retails for $16.95) right now.

GIVEAWAY

1 lucky reader will win a Jane Yolen package, including Come to the Fairies’ Ball, How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You, The Seeing Stick, and The Scarecrow’s Dance.

WIN IT!

– Tell me in a comment one of your favorite books by Jane Yolen or a favorite children’s book if you’re not familiar with Jane.

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I received samples of Jane Yolen’s books from RAAB Associates to facilitate this review.  All opinions expressed in this post are 100% mine.

278 thoughts on “Jane Yolen Children Books Review & Giveaway”

  9. Lori Z.

    When I was reading lots of Juv. Fiction for teaching, I really loved Yolen’s Briar Rose–a fictional account of a woman escaped from a concentration camp. It’s geared toward kids around 12-16 and it was really well done. There are others I’ve read of hers with my kids, but Criar Rose has been the most touching.

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  30. Lori A.

    I am not familiar with her books…but we love Mommy’s Best Kisses, Goodnight Moon and Dr. Seuss! 🙂
    ljatwood at gmail dot com

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  38. Christine W

    I have not read any of Jane Yolen’s Children Books but would very much like to have the opportunity to do so. When my daughter was little, we loved to read the Dr. Seuss books. I sent my grandson one of those Hallmark books for Valentine’s Day where he gets to hear me reading the book to him. I know that he would really love the book “How Do Dinosaur’s Say I Love You?”

    Thank you,

    Christine
    womackcm@sbcglobal.net

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  42. McKim

    I’m not familiar with her books, but would be interested in reading them. I like the illustrations. My kid’s favorite books are the Berenstain Bears series.

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  45. Hannah

    I am not familiar with Jane but one of my favorite children’s books is “Guess how much I love you”. Such a lovely story!

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  65. maria

    When I was a kid, I love the Little House on the Prarie series. I can’t wait to introduce that to my daughter. Currently, we love the If you give a mouse a….series.

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  73. mindy

    i am not familiar with her books but used to love the madelyn series thanks for the giveaway minsthins at optonline dot net

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  80. anthy

    Wow, talk about things I never thought I’d see in a giveaway post! I used to read Jane Yolen all the time as a child and a teenager, and if I read more books nowadays (I’ve let my fiction reading fall by the wayside in favor of the internet, sadly), I’d still read her books and short stories. I always got the impression that she was very well-known and loved among the fantasy book community at large.

    My favorites…let me jog my memory with Amazon. I used to love the Pit Dragon Chronicles (books about a young dragon trainer), and the Young Merlin books. And the Great Alta saga (oh, wow, she has a book out in that series that I didn’t read). And she wrote about a wizard school long before J.K. Rowling did. 🙂

    Thank you for the giveaway; I’d love to share these books with my nieces and nephews (and read them myself – especially The Seeing Stick. 🙂 )

    anthy_stl [ATT] yahoo [DOTT] com

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  104. Vicky H.

    I’m unfamiliar with Jane Yolen, though these books look beautifully illustrated and are cute stories.
    One of my favorite books when I was a child was Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters.

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  111. Jennifer T.

    We love Where the Wild Things Are. But, who doesn’t? My daughter has several favorites. Sometimes, they’re very professional books and sometimes they are $1 books from bargain printing at a local press.

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  116. DEBBIE STANTON

    My favorite Jane Yolen book is “How Do Dinosaurs Clean Their Rooms”… we have 4 of th How Do Dinosaurs ____ books (but not the I Love You – so I hope I win so we can add it to our collection!!).

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  131. Teresa

    My favorite childrens book is Corduroy as I am not familiar with this author. These books looks adorable!
    mstlee2000 @ hotmail.com

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  148. Heather

    I am unfamiliar with her books but they look enchanting. We have different ages and stages of reading but our youngest could listen to Goodnight Moon 100X a day and not tire of it. We all have it memorized.

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  156. Mommy2Bears

    Not familiar but looking forward to changing that. My favorite book as a kid was There Is A Monster At The End Of This Book but now reading to my girls I love anything Dr. Seuss. And so do they. Especially I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew. Fun reading.

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  161. Susan C

    I am unfortunately not familiar with Jane, but I will keep an eye out for her books. My favorite children’s book is In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak.
    smchester at gmail dot com

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  163. chrissyb

    My favorite childrens book is Corduroy! I still have it 30 years later! I’d like to read my son these books!

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  173. Kylie

    I loved Briar Rose (fairy tale re-tellings are my favorite) that I first read as a teen but the little ones will love these picture books.

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  201. P.J. Shaw

    My favorite Jane Yolen book will always be “Owl Moon.” It is a gentle book, a quiet book that spoke loudly to the Caldecott awards committee. A dear friend gave it to me in 1989 before I had written my first book, and Jane signed it to me “and to all the books to come.” So, yes, please enter me in this special giveaway. I just met Jane at an SCBWI conference last weekend and would love to have her memory linger awhile longer here in Atlanta.

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  204. Randy Bailey

    I am not familiar with this book author, but her books sounds very fun and interesting. I have 4 grandkids who would enjoy reading these books. My favorite children’s book growing up was a book of fairy tales, I loved Rapunzel, Jack In The Beanstalk & Puss In Boots among other stories in that big book

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  222. brooke

    My son loves How do Dinosaurs get so well…. was great when he was sick and didn’t always want to do something… hehee weeshenanigans (at) gmail (Dot) com

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  228. Patricia Miller

    My favorite children’s book is an oldie but a goodie. “The Monster At the End of This Book” My boys absolutely love it.

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  230. Rosey

    I am not familiar with her work, though the dinosaur book looks enticing. My favorite children’s book is If you give a mouse a cookie. My daughter is right here (tween) and she said to put Bridge to Terabitha up as her fave. Thanks.

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  250. Crystal F

    I’m not familiar with her so I will say some of our favorite books are The Pout Pout Fish and Silly Tilly. Thank you!

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  254. Heather

    I am not familiar with this author. Some of My nephews favorite books are Good night moon and the very Hungry Caterpillar!

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  264. Pamela S

    My elementary children like the Jan Yolen book Dragon Heart. My favorite children’s book is “Mama, Do You Love Me?” LOVE that book. thanks.

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