Not too often do you see an author who not only writes but also illustrates her own literature. To be so talented.
Her book list (snagged from her website ~ which I encourage everyone to visit, it's very impressive)
http://www.betsyjames.com/pages/comprehensive.html Quote:
PICTURE BOOKS AND MIDDLE GRADE
Written and illustrated by Betsy James:
Tadpoles
Dutton Children's Books 1999
Mary Ann, Dutton Children's Books 1994
A 1994 School Library Journal Best Book
A 1995 Child Study Children's Book Committee Book of the Year
cloth: ISBN 0-525-45077-7
Natalie Underneath
Dutton Children's Books 1990
cloth: ISBN 0-525-44591-9
The Red Cloak
Chronicle Books 1989
Included in the 1995-96 National Museum for Women in the Arts exhibition, Brave Little Girls
cloth: ISBN 0-87701-564-3
What's That Room For?
Dutton Children's Books 1988
cloth: ISBN 0-525-44382-7
Written by Betsy James:
My Chair
Scholasic Books, 2004
ISBN ISBN 0-439-44421-7
Flashlight, Knopf 1997
A Junior Library Guild selection, 1998
cloth: ISBN 0-679-87970-6
Blow Away Soon,
Putnam 1995
A 1996 Child Study Children's Book Committee
Book of the Year
cloth: ISBN 0-399-22648-6
The Mud Family
Putnam 1994 (in Canada, Oxford University Press)
Paperback edition, Oxford University Press 1998
1995-96 Our Choice of the Canadian Children's Book Centre
cloth: ISBN 0-19-541075-0
paper: ISBN 0-19-512479-0
He Wakes Me
Orchard Books 1991
cloth: ISBN 0-531-05954-5
library: ISBN 0-531-08554-6
The Dream Stair
Harper and Row 1990
cloth: ISBN 0-06-022788-5
Illustrated by Betsy James
The Fireplug is First Base, by P. J. Petersen
Dutton Children's Books 1990
cloth: ISBN 0-525-44587-0
paper: ISBN 0-14-130056-6 (Penguin)
No More Animals, by Lucia Monfried
Dutton Children's Books 1995
cloth: ISBN 0-525-45390-3
YOUNG ADULT NOVELS
written and illustrated by Betsy James
Listening at the Gate
Atheneum, 2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-689-85068-4
ISBN-10: 0-68985068-9
Dark Heart
Atheneum (2005)
(Originally published by Dutton Children's Books, 1992
cloth: ISBN 0-525-44951-5)
Long Night Dance
Atheneum (2005)
A Voices of Youth Advocates Best Fantasy, 1991
(Originally published by Dutton Children's Books 1989
cloth: ISBN 0-525-44485-8)
|
I'm going to add her awards too:
Quote:
Awards and Honors
Flashlight
1998 Junior Library Guild selection
Blow Away Soon
1996 Child Study Children's Book Committee Book of the Year
The Mud Family
1995-96 Our Choice of the Canadian Children's Book Centre
The Red Cloak
1995-96 Selected for National Museum for Women in the Arts exhibition, Brave Little Girls
Mary Ann
1994 School Library Journal Best Book
1995 Child Study Children's Book Committee Book of the Year
Long Night Dance
1991 Voices of Youth Advocates Best Fantasy |