Books by Ferida Wolff
THE STORY BLANKET by Ferida Wolff
by Ferida Wolff, Harriet May Savitz, illustrated by Elena Odriozola
FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2008

In this bland but worthy original tale old, Babba Zarrah sees that young Nikolai has a hole in his shoe and, having no other wool, secretly unravels part of the blanket she spreads out when children gather to hear her stories to knit him a pair of warm socks. Read full book review >

IS A WORRY WORRYING YOU? by Ferida Wolff
by Ferida Wolff, Harriet May Savitz, illustrated by Marie Le Tourneau
FICTION
Released: May 1, 2005

Mixing serious and silly examples, the authors define "worries" and suggest some coping strategies: "Suppose a monster moves in under your bed, and you're afraid if you go to sleep it will do something horrible, so you stay awake all night. Read full book review >

IT IS THE WIND by Ferida Wolff
Kirkus Star
by Ferida Wolff, illustrated by James E. Ransome
FICTION
Released: April 1, 2005

Prose and pictures perfectly echo the sounds and sights of a summer night in the country. Read full book review >

A YEAR FOR KIKO by Ferida Wolff
by Ferida Wolff, illustrated by Joung Un Kim
FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 1997

Wolff (A Weed Is a Seed, 1996, etc.) takes readers through the calendar with a month-by-month list of a small girl's solitary outdoor activities during the year. Each of 12 spreads celebrates a month as experienced by Kiko, a girl of about five. Read full book review >

A WEED IS A SEED by Ferida Wolff
by Ferida Wolff, illustrated by Janet Pedersen
FICTION
Released: April 1, 1996

In a rhyming book, Wolff (The Emperor's Garden, 1994, etc.) looks at everyday things from opposing points of view. Read full book review >

THE EMPEROR'S GARDEN by Ferida Wolff
by Ferida Wolff, illustrated by Kathy Osborn
FICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 1994

It was a poor but agreeable village in China, where all could call each other a friend. Read full book review >

ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT by Ferida Wolff
by Ferida Wolff, Dolores Kozielski, illustrated by Dolores Avendano
FICTION
Released: Aug. 1, 1994

Young readers will enjoy this extended counting story that chronicles the witches, cats, owls, goats, snakes, bears, wolves, toads, crows, hares, bats, bugs, and ghosts that appear on Halloween night. Read full book review >

SEVEN LOAVES OF BREAD by Ferida Wolff
by Ferida Wolff, illustrated by Katie Keller
FICTION
Released: Aug. 1, 1993

Each day, Millie bakes seven loaves—one each for the dog, hen, goat, and rooster, and a peddler, an elderly neighbor, and her lazy housemate, Rose. Read full book review >

THE WOODCUTTER'S COAT by Ferida Wolff
by Ferida Wolff, illustrated by Anne Wilsdorf
FICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 1992
"Wilsdorf's freely drawn illustrations, enlivened with watercolor, nicely capture the comic spirit of this well-honed tale. With plenty of action, a good choice for independent reading or group sharing. (Picture book. 4-8)

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An amusing original story about the journey of a woodcutter's warm but buttonless and shabby coat: it's stolen first by a thief who abandons it in favor of a coat with buttons, whose owner then adopts and cleans the woodcutter's coat before finding it too small and trading with a baker, who sews on buttons but thinks it's too heavy, and so on, until the woodcutter gets his considerably refurbished coat back from the tailor in exchange for a load of wood. Read full book review >