Jane Louise Curry Books In Order

Abaloc Books In Order

  1. Beneath the Hill (1967)
  2. The Change Child (1970)
  3. The Daybreakers (1970)
  4. Over the Sea’s Edge (1971)
  5. The Birdstones (1977)
  6. The Watchers (1975)
  7. The Wolves of Aam (1981)
  8. Shadow Dancers (1983)

The Big Smith Snatch Books In Order

  1. The Big Smith Snatch (1989)
  2. The Great Smith House Hustle (1993)

Novels

  1. The Sleepers (1969)
  2. Mindy’s Mysterious Miniature (1970)
  3. The Housenapper (1971)
  4. The Ice Ghosts Mystery (1972)
  5. The Lost Farm (1974)
  6. Parsley Sage, Rosemary and Time (1975)
  7. The Magical Cupboard (1976)
  8. Poor Tom’s Ghost (1977)
  9. The Bassumtyte Treasure (1978)
  10. Ghost Lane (1979)
  11. The Great Flood Mystery (1985)
  12. The Lotus Cup (1986)
  13. Me, Myself and I (1987)
  14. Little Little Sister (1989)
  15. What the Dickens (1991)
  16. The Christmas Knight (1993)
  17. Robin Hood and His Merry Men (1994)
  18. Robin Hood in the Greenwood (1995)
  19. Moon Window (1996)
  20. Dark Shade (1998)
  21. A Stolen Life (1999)
  22. The Egyptian Box (2002)
  23. The Black Canary (2005)

Collections

  1. Down from the Lonely Mountain (1968)
  2. Back in the Beforetime (1987)
  3. The Wonderful Sky Boat (2001)
  4. Hold Up the Sky (2003)

Chapbooks

  1. Brave Cloelia (2004)

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Jane Louise Curry Books Overview

Beneath the Hill

‘Reminiscent of the books of C.S. Lewis poetic, wise, and suspenseful’ Chicago Tribune ‘ This perfect fantasy about he past and the present, about good and evil’ Horn Book ‘ the illogical, irresistible sweeping of the reader into a state of being not his own, not of his time This is what Jane Louise Curry splendidly achieves in Beneath the Hill‘ Philippa Pearce, The Guardian.

Mindy’s Mysterious Miniature

A young girl finds an old dollhouse with unsuspected magic powers.

The Ice Ghosts Mystery

Perry, Mab, Oriole Bird and their mother fly to Austria in search of their father: Professor Bird has disappeared while investigating strange earth tremors. Villainous Dr. Pfnur is clearly up to no good, but surely he can t be making earthquakes! And surely the giant Ice Ghost Mab sees can t be real can it? A thoroughly absorbing and original mystery story. Children’s Books of the YearLondon. The plot is ingeniously woven and sustained in a beautifully vivid setting. The Horn Book

Parsley Sage, Rosemary and Time

Ten year old Rosemary thinks the word ‘Time’ cut into a stone in her aunt’s old herb garden should be spelled ‘Thyme’ until she picks a sprig of the herb around it and discovers herself back in the eighteenth century.

Poor Tom’s Ghost

‘Absolutely enthralling…

Publishers Weekly

‘All ends well with perfect emotional logic; who cares about the other sort where deep in a fast moving and absorbing story like this one?’

Jill Paton Walsh.

‘The best children’s fantasies of which this is definitely one offer no insult to the intelligence of the adult reader. If you buy this for your pre teenager and don’t read it for yourself, you are missing a memorable reading experience, and a very poignant evocation of the preadolescent mind.’

Marion Zimmer Bradley.

Dark Shade

Sixteen year old Maggie attempts to save recently orphaned Kip from permanently going back in time to 1758 as an adopted Lenape in the primeval forests of western Pennsylvania.

The Egyptian Box

Tee short for Leticia Woodie and her family have moved into a big, old house that is a part of her father’s inheritance from Great uncle Sebastian. While exploring the contents of Great uncle’s antiques and junk store, they find a parcel marked FOR DEAR LETICIA, MY SHABTI BOX. The decorated Egyptian box inside holds the shabti, a colorful wooden figure of a girl in painted mummy wrappings from the waist down. The writings on those wrappings are ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Charles, Tee’s younger and very curious brother, borrows the figure and uses the Internet to discover what sounds the old hieroglyphics stand for. When he reads the Egyptian words aloud to Tee, strange things begin to happen. That evening, slow in answering her father’s call to come and dry the dishes, Tee reaches the kitchen door only to hear the clink and rattle of plates and cutlery being put away. Peering in, she sees a costumed figure busy at work. Egyptian costume? The shabti? Surely not! But it is. Soon Tee is thinking of ways a secret, magical shabti servant can help her with homework…
with school…
with…
All goes well until the shabti begins to enjoy taking Tee’s place. A frightened Tee must get her back into her box, but can she? Inspired by the shabti figures in the British Museum, the Fitzwilliam Museum, and London’s Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, Jane Curry has written an amusing, then scary story that catches and holds the reader in its magic to the very last word.

The Black Canary

Twelve year old biracial James has grown up in a musical family. Not only are both of his parents musicians, but his four grandparents are as well. Everyone assumes that James will pursue music, yet he would rather become a newspaper reporter…
or an astronomer…
or a cook…
anything that will let him leave music behind and be his own self.

Everything changes when, on a family visit to London, James discovers a portal that leads to London in the year 1600, then finds himself unable to return to the point in time he had left behind. James is forced to join the Children of the Chapel Royal, a group that performs for the queen of England, and the musical talents he denied are now put to the test and pushed to their limits. In this alternate world James comes to realize that he cannot survive and get back to the twenty first century without recognizing, understanding, and making the most of his musical gifts.

Jane Louise Curry brings Elizabethan London to life in this remarkable story about music, family, and finding one’s place in the world.

Down from the Lonely Mountain

This is an Authors Guild/BIP title. Please use Authors Guild/BIP specs. Author’s bio: Born in Ohio, Jane Curry worked as an actress, artist, and art teacher before studying English literature at UCLA and London University, and earning a Ph.D. at Stanford. She taught in Stanford’s English Department for several years before ‘retiring’ to write full time. Description: Here, greedy, boastful Coyote cannot wait for the newly formed earth to dry, and leaves footprints on it that make mountain ridges and valleys. Brave Blue Jay and Ground Squirrel steal dawn from the Dawn People to shaare it with the world. Other creatures, some brave, some foolish, some comical or wicked, scurry through these tales told with humor and a storyteller’s relish.

Back in the Beforetime

In these entertaining twenty one stories from a variety of California Indian tribes, you’ll meet trickster Coyote, Grizzly Bear, Dog, and Weasel. You’ll find out how according to Indian legend the world began, the mountains were formed, and Sun came to light the day. Read and laugh about a time when all was magic and wonder, when Man was at home in the natural world, Back in the Beforetime.

The Wonderful Sky Boat

In this collection of twenty seven delightful stories, there are trickster tales full of sly humor and tales of magic and the supernatural, of adventure and derring do. ‘How and Why’ stories explain why the buzzard is bald and how the alligator’s nose was broken. We laugh along with Rabbit when, to impress the pretty girl he wants to marry, he tricks Wolf into letting him ride him like a horse. Tales from familiar peoples such as the Cherokee, Choctaw, Seminole, and Cree are here, as well as from less well known tribes. Jane Curry has also provided helpful notes ‘About the Southeastern Tribes,’ ‘About the Storytellers,’ and ‘About the Stories.’ There is a happy variety in these stories, retold with great skill by a gifted writer, whose earlier book of Native American tales, Back in the Beforetime, has been a favorite for years. Storytellers and young readers alike will welcome The Wonderful Sky Boat.

Hold Up the Sky

Nearly all that remains of some Indian tribes of Texas and the Southern Plains are their stories. Here twenty six tales are brought together from fourteen tribes and at least five different cultures. They are stories of humor, guidance, and adventure that have been passed down through the generations.

From the Tejas story that explains how the universe began, to the Lipan Apache tale in which a small lizard smartly outwits a hungry coyote, these stories are sure to delight young readers. Additional information about each tribe is included in the ‘About the Storytellers’ section.

Once again Jane Louise Curry has skillfully retold traditional tales of Native Americans. Hold Up the Sky is in keeping with the style of her previous, highly acclaimed collections of Native American stories, Back in the Beforetime, The Wonderful Sky Boat, and Turtle Island. This, too, is a collection to be treasured.

Brave Cloelia

In his History of Early Rome, the ancient historian Livy tells the story of a Roman girl named Cloelia who was taken prisoner by Larth Porsena, the king of the Etruscans. Cloelia came up with a daring plan of escape from her Etruscan captors and in the process won the admiration of all Rome and of the Etruscan king himself, who freed her. For saving her city, a grateful Rome set up a statue in her honor, the first such ever to be put on the Sacred Way. Jane Louise Curry tells this exciting and true story in Brave Cloelia, beautifully illustrated by Jeff Crosby. Jane Louise Curry is the author of many books for young people, most recently Hold Up the Sky and Other Indian Tales of Texas and the Southwest and The Egyptian Box. Brave Cloelia is his sixth children’s book.

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