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Jane Yolen

Jane Yolen is the award-winning author of over three hundred children's books including Last Laughs: Prehistoric Epitaphs and Last Laughs: Animal Epitaphs, Bad Girls (with Heidi E. Y. Stemple); Owl Moon, a Caldecott Medal Winner; the How Do Dinosaurs . . . ? series, and Sea Queens. She has been called the Hans Christian Andersen of the Americas. Jane lives in Western Massachusetts and Scotland.
Monsters of Fife: Terror Birds
Monsters of Fife: Sea Dragons
The Leather Apron Club
Plymouth Rocks!
Meet Me at the Well
Last Laughs: Prehistoric Epitaphs
Bad Girls
Last Laughs: Animal Epitaphs
Sea Queens

Books

Monsters of Fife: Terror Birds
Monsters of Fife: Sea Dragons
The Leather Apron Club
Plymouth Rocks!
Meet Me at the Well
Last Laughs: Prehistoric Epitaphs
Bad Girls
Last Laughs: Animal Epitaphs
Sea Queens

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