Nancy Willard Bibliography
Children’s Books
Sailing to Cythera and other Anatole Stories— first in the Anatole trilogy, Illustrated by David McPhail (Harcourt, 1974)
The Merry History of a Christmas Pie: With a Delicious Description of a Christmas Soup, Illustrated by Haig and Regina Shekerjian, (Putnam, 1974)
The Snow Rabbit, Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, (Little Brown & Co., 1975)
All on a May Morning, Illustrated by Haig and Regina Shekerjian, (G.P Putnam’s Sons, 1975)
The Well-Mannered Balloon, Illustrated by Haig and Regina Shekerjian, (Harcourt, 1976)
Shoes Without Leather, Illustrated by Laura Lydecker, (Putnam, 1976)
Simple Pictures Are Best, Illustrated by Tomie dePaola, (Harcourt, 1977)
Strangers' Bread, Illustrated by David McPhail, (Harcourt, 1977)
The Highest Hit, Illustrated by Emily McCully, (Harcourt, 1978)
The Island of the Grass King: The Further Adventures of Anatole, Illustrated by David McPhail, (Harcourt, 1979)
Papa's Panda, Illustrated by Lillian Hoban, (Harcourt, 1979)
The Marzipan Moon, Illustrated by Marcia Sewall, (Harcourt, 1981)
A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers, Illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen, (Harcourt, 1981)
Uncle Terrible: More Adventures of Anatole, Illustrated by David McPhail, (Harcourt, 1982)
The Nightgown of the Sullen Moon, Illustrated by David McPhail, (Harcourt, 1983)
Night Story, Illustrated by Ilse Plume, (Harcourt, 1986)
The Voyage of the Ludgate Hill: Travels with Robert Louis Stevenson, Illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen, (Harcourt, 1987)
The Mountains of Quilt (Harcourt, 1987)
Firebrat, Illustrated by David Wiesner, (Knopf, 1988)
East of the Sun and West of the Moon: A Play, Illustrated by Barry Moser, (Harcourt, 1989)
Ballad of Biddy Early, Illustrated by Barry Moser, (Knopf, 1989)
The High Rise Glorious Skittle Skat Roarious Sky Pie Angel Food Cake, Illustrated by Richard Jesse Watson, (Harcourt, 1990)
Pish, Posh Said Hieronymus Bosch, Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon, (Harcourt, 1991)
Beauty and the Beast, Illustrated by Barry Moser, (Harcourt, 1992)
The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon, (Scholastic, 1993)
Starlit Somersault Downhill, Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, (Little Brown & Co., 1993)
An Alphabet of Angels, also illustrated, (Scholastic, 1994)
Gutenberg's Gift, Illustrated by Bryan Leister (Harcourt, 1995)
The Good-Night Blessing Book, also illustrated, (Scholastic, 1996)
Cracked Corn and Snow Ice Cream: A Family Almanac, Illustrated by Jane Dyer, (Harcourt, 1997)
The Magic Cornfield, also illustrated, (Harcourt, 1997)
The Tortilla Cat, Illustrated by Jeanette Winter, (Harcourt, 1998)
The Tale I Told Sasha, Illustrated by David Christiana, (Little Brown & Co., 1999)Shadow Story, Illustrated by David Diaz, (Harcourt, 1999)
The Moon & Riddles Diner and the Sunnyside Café, Illustrated by Chris Butler, (Harcourt, 2001)
Cinderella's Dress, Illustrated by Jane Dyer, (Blue Sky Press, 2003)
The Mouse, the Cat, and Grandmother's Hat, Illustrated by Jenny Mattheson, (Little Brown & Co., 2003)
The Tale of Paradise Lost: Based on the Poem by John Milton, Illustrated by Jude Daly, (Atheneum, 2004)
Sweep Dreams, Illustrated by Mary GrandPré, (Little Brown & Co., 2005)
The Flying Bed, paintings by John Thompson, (Blue Sky Press, 2007)
A Starlit Snowfall, Illustrated by Jerry Pinkney, (Little Brown & Co., 2011)
The Three Mouths of Little Tom Drum, Illustrated by Kevin Hawkes, (Candlewick Press, 2015)
Gum, Illustrated by Jeff Newman, (Candlewick Press, 2017)
Poetry
In His Country (Generation, 1966)
Skin of Grace (University of Missouri Press, 1967)
A New Herball, prints by Helen Siegl, (Ferdinand Roten Galleries, 1968)
9 Masks for the Naked Poet, Illustrated by Regina Shekerjian, (Harcourt, 1971)
Carpenter of the Sun (Liveright, 1974)
Household Tales of Moon and Water (Harcourt, 1987)
Water Walker (Knopf Doubleday, 1989)
Poem Made of Water (Brighton Press, 1992)
Among Angels with Jane Yolen (Harcourt, 1995)
Swimming Lessons: New and Selected Poems (Knopf Doubleday, 1996)
Step Lightly: Poems for the Journey (Harcourt, 1998)
When There Were Trees (Brighton, 1999)
The River That Runs Two Ways – poems by Nancy Willard, photographs by Eric Lindbloom, (Brighton, 2000)
Swimming Lessons, special edition (Brighton, 2001)
In the Salt Marsh (Knopf Doubleday, 2004)
Diana in Sight — photographs by Eric Lindbloom with poems by Willard, (Brighton, 2009)
The Sea at Truro (Knopf Doubleday, 2012)
Waves, poems by Nancy Willard, etchings by Michele Burgess, woodcuts by Bill Kelly, (Brighton, 2014)
Skin of Grace, special edition (Brighton, 2016)
Fiction
The Lively Anatomy of God: Stories (Eakins Press, 1968)
Childhood of the Magician (Liveright, 1973)
Things Invisible to See (Random House, 1985)
Sister Water (Knopf Doubleday, 1993)
Nonfiction
Testimony of the Invisible Man (University of Missouri Press, 1970)
Angel in the Parlor: Essays and Stories (Harcourt, 1983)
Telling Time: Angels, Ancestors, And Stories (Mariner Books, 1993)
The Left-handed Story: Writing and the Writer's Life (University of Michigan Press, 2008)
Selections
A Nancy Willard Reader (Open Road Integrated Media, 1991)