Willard, Nancy

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The Moon and Riddles Diner and the Sunnyside Cafe

2001
A light-hearted collection of poems about Shoofly Sally and her Everything Dog, who meet an unusual cast of characters at an odd restaurant called The Moon & Riddles Diner and the Sunnyside Cafe.

Shadow story

1999
The clever Holly Go Lolly, now orphaned, lures the evil parent-eating ogre Ooboo into the make-believe forest she has created with hand shadows.

Beauty and the beast

1992
A retelling, set in the early 1900's in New York City, of the traditional tale in which a kind and beautiful young woman, through her great capacity to love, releases a handsome young man from the spell which has made him into an ugly beast.

The voyage of the Ludgate Hill

travels with Robert Louis Stevenson
1987
A poem inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's letters describes how the author and his wife survived a stormy ocean voyage with a shipload of exotic animals.

A starlit somersault downhill

1992
Having made a plan with Bear to spend the winter napping in a cozy home, Rabbit finds himself too energetic to sleep and decides to join the world outside.

The flying bed

2007
A greedy baker buys his wife a magic bed that flies them to the master baker, where they are given special yeast that helps their bakery become, for a while, the most popular in Florence.

The high rise glorious skittle skat roarious sky pie angel food cake

1996
As she is preparing a special angel food cake for her mother's birthday, a girl is surprised by three angels who have dropped in for a taste.

The mountains of quilt

1987
Four magicians lose their magic carpet which eventually finds its way into the center of a grandmother's quilt.

An alphabet of angels

1994
Alphabetical listing of angels in rhyming verse, illustrated with photographs of angels posed in dreamlike settings.

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