A versatile writer, Allan Wolf's picture books, poetry collections, young adult novels, and nonfiction celebrate his love of research, history, science, and poetry. He is a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, two-time winner of the North Carolina Young Adult Book Award, and recipient of New York’s Bank Street College Claudia Lewis Award for Poetry. Booklist placed Allan’s The Watch That Ends the Night, on its list of the 50 Best YA Books of All Time. Wolf believes in the healing powers of poetry recitation and has committed to memory nearly a thousand poems. His newest titles include: a YA historical novel in verse, (The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep: Voices from the Donner Party); a picture book (No Buddy Like a Book); a poetry collection about the solar system (The Day the Universe Exploded My Head); and a poetry collection about a busy school garden (Behold Our Magical Garden).