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Children's Writings & Oral Stories - Published Books

Books by children
There is a short list of published books written by children, collections of children's writings, or 
ncluding children's writings or stories (some possibly taken through interviews).  There are many
more, especially those published as contest winners such as the Landmark Editions books.  If you
have suggestions for additions to the list, please email them to raven@ravenstonepress.com

Other writings by children:  see the magazine Stone Soup
Online children's writings may be found by visiting this website: Children's Writings

For a special website of information for children who like to write, see
Aaron Shepard's Young Author Page - For Kids Who Write Stories
If you would like to learn how to bind your own book, see 
ackie French Koller's excellent online directions:

Letters
Dear Laura: Letters from Children to Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1996
Dear Mrs. Parks: A Dialogue With Today's Youth by Rosa Parks, 1996

Miscellaneous Collections
I Will Sing Life: Voices from the Hole in the Wall Gang, 1992
There's a Sound in the Sea by Tamar Griggs, 1975

Nonfiction
All About Asthma by William Ostrow, 1989
The Children of Topaz: The Story of a Japanese-American Internment Camp:
      Based on a Classroom Diary by Michael O. Tunnell, 1996
Dear World: How Children Around the World Feel About Our Environment, 1993, c1992
A Forever Family by Roslyn Banish, 1992 (about adoption)
Just Peace: A Message of Hope by Mattie Stepanek, with Jimmie Carter, 2006.
The Kids' Book About Death and Dying, 1985
The Kids' Book of Divorce: By, For, and About Kids, 1981
Learning to Swim in Swaziland: a Child's Eye View of a Southern African Country
         by Nila K. Leigh, 1993
My Book for Kids With Cansur [sic] by Jason Gees, 1987
My Journey of Hope: a Child's Guidebook for Living With Cancer by Sarah Jean Kovar, 1993
Now I Know Better: Kids Tell About Safety, 1996
Out of the Dump: Writings and Photographs by Children From Guatemala, 1995
Papa, an Intimate Biography of Mark Twain by Susy Clemens
Something Wrong in My House by Katherine Leiner, 1988 (alcoholic parents)
Taking Flight: My Story by Vicki Van Meter, 1995
Voices From the Fields: Children of Migrant Farmworkers Tell Their Stories, 1993

Poetry
Celebrate Through Heartsongs by Mattie Stepanek, 2002.
Heartsongs by Mattie Stepanek, 2001, 2002
Hope Through Heartsongs by Mattie Stepanek, 2002.
I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from the Terezin
         Concentration Camp, 1942-1944, compiled by Hana Volavkova, 1993.
I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's Pocket Book, 1992
Journey Through Heartsongs by Mattie Stepanek, 2001.
The Palm of My Heart: Poetry By African American Children, 1996
Reach for the Moon by Samantha Abeel, 1994 (about learning disabilities)
Reflections of a Peacemaker: A Portrait Through Heartsongs by Mattie Stepanek, 2005.
Rose, Where Did You Get That Read?  Teaching Great Poetry to Children by Kenneth
             Koch, 1973.
The Voice of the Children by June Jordan, 1970
The Wind and the Rain: Children's Poems by Richard Lewis, 1968

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