I write nonfiction and historical fiction, picture books, and Golden Books. I speak at school, libraries, and conferences. I also love to garden and offer manuscript critiques. (Deborahhopkinson@yahoo.com) NEW books in 2023 include RACE AGAINST DEATH: The Greatest POW Rescue of WWII, which has three starred reviews; CINDERELLA AND A MOUSE CALLED FRED, illustrated by Caldecott Medalist Paul O. Zelinsky, which has a star from Kirkus; TRIM SETS SAIL and TRIM HELPS OUT, Junior Library Guild selections; THE PLOT to Kill a QUEEN and SMALL PLACES, CLOSE to HOME, a picture book inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I live in Oregon.
Series
Books
Hear My Sorrow
The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker, New York City 1909
2004
Into the Firestorm
A Novel of San Francisco, 1906
2006
Stagecoach Sal
2009
Bluebird Summer
2001
Dive! World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific (Scholastic Focus)
The Incredible Story of U.S. Submarines in WWII
2016
Shutting Out the Sky
2003
Sweet Land of Liberty
2007
Birdie's Lighthouse
1996
Carter Reads the Newspaper
2019
My Little Golden Book About Betty White
2021
First Family
2009
Who Was Charles Darwin?
2005
Ordinary, Extraordinary Jane Austen
2018
The Story of a Story
2021
From Slave to Soldier
Based on a True Civil War Story
2005
Susan B. Anthony
Fighter for Women's Rights
2005
We Must Not Forget
Holocaust Stories of Survival and Resistance
2021
Our Kansas Home
2003
Annie and Helen
2012
Fannie in the Kitchen
The Whole Story from Soup to Nuts of How Fannie Farmer Invented Recipes with Precise Measurements
2001
Home on the Range
John A. Lomax and His Cowboy Songs
2009
Fatal Throne
2018
My Little Golden Book About Dolly Parton
2021
Titanic
Voices From the Disaster
2012
Thanks to Frances Perkins
Fighter for Workers' Rights
2020
A Letter to My Teacher
A Teacher Appreciation Gift
2017
Keep On!
The Story of Matthew Henson, Co-Discoverer of the North Pole
2009
The Humblebee Hunter
Inspired By The Life and Experiments of Charles Darwin and His Children
2010
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
1993
Butterflies Belong Here
A Story of One Idea, Thirty Kids, and a World of Butterflies
2020
Michelle
2009
Beatrix Potter and the Unfortunate Tale of a Borrowed Guinea Pig
2016
Up Before Daybreak
Cotton And People In America
2006
What Is the Women's Rights Movement?
2018
Apples to Oregon
Being the (Slightly) True Narrative of How a Brave Pioneer Father Brought Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums, Grapes, and Cherries (and Children) Across the Plains
2004
A Packet of Seeds
2004
John Adams Speaks for Freedom (Ready-To-Read
2005
Girl Wonder
A Baseball Story in Nine Innings
2003
Billy and the Rebel
Based on a True Civil War Story
2005
A Boy Called Dickens
2012
A Band of Angels
A Story Inspired by the Jubilee Singers
1999
Maria's Comet
1999
D-Day
The World War II Invasion that Changed History
2018
Abe Lincoln Crosses a Creek
A Tall, Thin Tale
2008
Only One
2022
Where Is the Kremlin?
2019
Courage & Defiance
Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark
2015
Steamboat School
2016
Saving Strawberry Farm
2005
The Deadliest Fires Then and Now
2022
Sky Boys
How They Built the Empire State Building
2004
Sailing for Gold
2003
We Had to Be Brave
Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport
2020
The Great Trouble
A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel
2013
A Bandit's Tale
The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket
2016
Knit Your Bit
A World War I Story
2013
Mindful Day
2020
The Plot to Kill a Queen
2023
How I Became a Spy
A Mystery of WWII London
2019
Under the Bodhi Tree
A Story of the Buddha
2018
Independence Cake
A Revolutionary Confection Inspired by Amelia Simmons, Whose True History Is Unfortunately Unknown
2017
Prairie Skies
2002
Under the Quilt of Night
2002
