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The Go-Around Dollar
A story describing how a
single dollar changes hands,
accompanied by facts about
the one-dollar bill.
Author: Barbara Johnston Adams
Illustrator: Joyce Audy Zarins.
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Log Cabin in the Woods
A True Story
about a Pioneer Boy
Author: Joanne Landers Henry
Illustrator: Joyce Audy Zarins.
Purchase it today from
Emmis Books!

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As an Illustrator:

The Go-Around Dollar (Barbara Johnston Adams) is available through Simon & Schuster in hardcover and is a Junior Library Guild selection. It is being released in an audio version and in an anthology. Ages 7-9. Four Winds Press.

The first of a series of three books, Mrs. Peloki's Snake (Joanne Oppenheim), was a 1981 IRA Children's Choice book. It was followed by Mrs. Peloki's Substitute, then Mrs. Peloki's Class Play, which in 1984-85 was nominated for The Golden Sower: the Nebraska Children's Book Award. Ages 4-8. Dodd, Mead.

Joanne Landers Henry (the author) and I have negotiated the re-publication of Log Cabin in the Woods, which was available for years in both hardcover and paperback and was also a Scholastic Book Club title. Ages 10-13. Four Winds Press. Re-published by Guild Press, Emmis Publishing, IN, Spring 2002.

How to Survive Third Grade has been available for ten years now. Ages 7-9. Albert Whitman.

The author of Orphan Jeb at the Massacree, Stephen Mooser, is one of the founders of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Ages 9-12. Knopf.

Piskies, Spriggans and Other Magical Beings (Shirley Climo). Ages 8-10. T. Y. Crowell.

Milllion Dollar Jeans (Ron Roy). Ages 9-12. E.P. Dutton.

Be Kind to Your Dog at Christmas (Barbara Costikyan). Ages 8-11. Pantheon.

Gus Goes to School (Jane Thayer) was one of the popular Gus the Ghost books. Its first edition title was Gus Was a Real Dumb Ghost. Ages 4-6. William Morrow.

The Day Eli Went Looking for Bear (Michelle Dionetti). Ages 4-7. Addison-Wesley.

The Story of Things (Kate Morgan). Ages K-3. Walker & Co.

There were three books published by Cobblestone Publishing which are available as large format paperbacks. The Struggle for Freedom: Plays on the American Revolution 1762-1788(Charles F. Baker III) and The Myths and Legends of Mount Olympos (Rosalie and Charles F. Baker III) were illustrated by me alone. Earth Maker's Lodge: Native American Folklore, Activities and Foods (edited by E. Barrie Kavasch), illustrated by myself, Chris Wold Dyrud and Tim Foley, won the 1995 Book Builder's Award for Excellence in Graphic Arts.

My illustrations have appeared in magazines including Cricket, Spider, Ladybug, Faces, Cobblestone and Odyssey.

I am a member of Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. I gave a workshop at the 1998 SCBW&I Northeast Regional Conference in Framingham, MA.

Also, Open Water was a finalist for the SCBW&I Works in Progress Grant for YA Fiction.

I am a sea kayaker, sculptor in welded steel, mother of three and wife. I have a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

photo credit : Joyce 


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