
Johanna Hurwitz
Author · 54 books
Johanna Hurwitz is an American author of more than sixty children's books. She has sold millions of books in many different languages. Hurwitz graduated from Queens College, New York with a degree in English and Columbia University with a master's in library science.
Series
Books

Baseball Fever
1981

School Spirit
1994

New Shoes for Silvia
1993

Rip-Roaring Russell
1983

The Two and Only Kelly Twins
2013

PeeWee & Plush
A Park Pals Adventure
2002

Faraway Summer
1998

Dear Emma
2002

Class President
1990

The Unsigned Valentine
And Other Events in the Life of Emma Meade
2006

Much Ado about Aldo
1978

Superduper Teddy
1980

Aldo Ice Cream
1981

What Goes Up Must Come Down
1978

Squirrel World
A Park Pals Adventure
2007

Pee-Wee's Tale
2000

Astrid Lindgren
Storyteller to the World
1989

Helen Keller
Courage in the Dark
1997

Russell's Secret
2001

The Rabbi's Girls
1982

Russell Sprouts
1987

Anne Frank
Life in Hiding
1989

The Cold and Hot Winter
1988

Dede Takes Charge!
1984

The Down & Up Fall
1996

Russell and Elisa
1989

Hurray for Ali Baba Bernstein
1989

Summer with Elisa
2000

Double or Nothing with the Two and Only Kelly Twins
2017

Aldo Applesauce
1979

One Small Dog
2000

Ever-Clever Elisa
1997

Teacher's Pet
1988

Birthday Surprises
Ten Great Stories to Unwrap
1995

It's Fine to Be Nine
2000

Class Clown
1987

The Hot and Cold Summer
1984

E Is for Elisa
1991

Once I Was a Plum Tree
1980

Make Room for Elisa
1993

A Llama in the Family
1994

Mighty Monty
More First-Grade Adventures
2008

Elisa Michaels, Bigger & Better
2003

Fourth-Grade Fuss
2004

The Adventures of Ali Baba Bernstein
1985

New Neighbors for Nora
1979

Mostly Monty
First Grader
2007

The Just Desserts Club
1999

Busybody Nora
1976

Tough-Luck Karen
1982

Nora and Mrs. Mind Your Own Business
1977

Lexi's Tale
2001

I Fooled You
Ten Stories of Tricks, Jokes and Switcheroos
2010

Spring Break
1997