Nancy Willard
Author · 41 books
NANCY WILLARD was an award-winning children's author, poet, and essayist who received the Newbery Medal in 1982 for A Visit to William Blake's Inn. She wrote dozens of volumes of children's fiction and poetry, including The Flying Bed, Sweep Dreams, and Cinderella's Dress. She also authored two novels for adults, Things Invisible to See and Sister Water, and twelve books of poetry, including Swimming Lessons: New and Selected Poems. She lived with her husband, photographer Eric Lindbloom, and taught at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Series
Books
The Left-Handed Story
Writing and the Writer's Life
2008
A Nancy Willard Reader
Selected Poetry and Prose
1991
Swimming Lessons
Selected Poems
1996
The Mouse, the Cat, and Grandmother's Hat
2003
Sailing to Cythera
1974
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
1993
Telling Time
Angels, Ancestors, And Stories
1993
The Moon & Riddles Diner and the Sunnyside Cafe
2001
A Starlit Somersault Downhill
1993
An Alphabet of Angels
1994
The Ballad of Biddy Early
1989
The Tale I Told Sasha
1999
The Mountains of Quilt
1987
Firebrat
1988
Gum
2017
Among Angels
Poems
1995
The Three Mouths of Little Tom Drum
2015
Step Lightly
Poems for the Journey
1998
The High Rise Glorious Skittle Skat Roarious Sky Pie Angel Food Cake
1990
A Visit to William Blake's Inn
Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers
1981
The Voyage of the Ludgate Hill
Travels with Robert Louis Stevenson
1987
Cinderella's Dress
2003
Beauty and the Beast
1992
The Tortilla Cat
1998
Uncle Terrible
1985
Simple Pictures Are Best
1976
Shadow Story
1999
In the Salt Marsh
2004
The Nightgown of the Sullen Moon
1983
The Flying Bed
2007
Pish, Posh, Said Hieronymus Bosch
1991
Things Invisible to See
1985
The Sea at Truro
Poems
2012
Conjunctions #46, Selected Subversions
Essays on the World at Large
2006
Sweep Dreams
2005
A Starlit Snowfall
2011
Household Tales Of Moon And Water
1982
Sister Water
1993
Raggedy Ann and the Christmas Thief
1999
Water Walker
1989
The Island of the Grass King
The Further Adventures of Anatole
1979
