Jane Yolen

Rhyming text affirms that girls can pursue their many interests, from playing sports to planting flowers in the dirt, without giving up their tiaras.

Dimity Duck and Frumity Frog have a fun day together in the pond, then go home when it gets dark outside.

When four-year-old Janie's father goes off to war, the rest of the family moves to the grandparents' on the Chesapeake Bay, where Janie learns a secret of the world which helps her understand her father's long absence.

Everyone knows the legend of Johnny Appleseed, the man from Massachusetts who planted apple trees all the way to California. But the true story of Johnny Appleseed, or John Chapman, is even greater than the legend.

Before she became Queen of the Amazons, young Hippolyta fought to break a goddess's curse . . . An ancient prophecy states that any Amazon who bears two sons must kill the second, lest he grow up to destroy all the Amazons. But Queen Otrere can't bear to sacrifice her baby, so she gives him to her daughter, thirteen-year-old Hippolyta, begging her to take the child to his father, Laomedon, King of Troy. In order to save her baby brother's life, Hippolyta...

Before he led the Argonauts on the quest for the Golden Fleece, Jason saved an ancient city . . . Jason is an orphan training to be a warrior under the instruction of the centaur Chiron. But when wild centaurs steal Chiron's most precious possessions-two jars of Gorgon's blood, one with the power to heal any wound and the other a poison deadly enough to massacre multitudes-Jason must recover the blood before it can destroy the city of Iolcus. As he...

A Highland lad comes of age at the brutal battle of Culloden in 18th-century Scotland. In the year 1745, the cry goes out across the Scottish Highlands for every able-bodied Scotsman to take up arms in support of Bonnie Prince Charlie. Stalwart and brave but prone to sudden seizures, young Duncan longs to join his da and the other men of clan MacDonald in the noble fight against the English. His father decrees the boy must remain behind, but the call...

The blind man is the wisest man in the village. He asks the hunter to take him hunting everyday, but the hunter doesn't understand how someone who cannot see could possibly be good at hunting. Learn how the blind man is so wise in this story from Western Africa.

In this Russian folk tale, the farmer's wife cannot keep a secret. When the farmer finds a box of gold he knows that by the end of the day, the entire village will know, and by the end of the week, the whole country, including the greedy king. How can the farmer keep the king from taking the gold?

A Kite for Moon Educator's Guide is a companion to A Kite for Moon by Jane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple. This guide can be utilized in the classroom, in a home school setting, or by parents seeking additional resources. Ideal for grades K-3.