Coming to Know Emily Dickinson through Prose and Poetry: K-8 Children's Books

from Miss Emily

Elementary School: K-4

1. Bedard, Michael. (2002). Emily.  Illustrated by Barbara Cooney. New York: Dragonfly Books. (Picture book biography)
2. Figley, Marty Rhodes. (2012). Emily and Carlo. Illustrated by Catherine Stock. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge. (Picture book biography)
3. Mutén, Burleigh. (2014). Miss Emily. Illustrated by Matt Phelan. Somerville, MA: Candlewick. (Novel in verse)
4. Spinelli, Eileen. (2014). Another Day as Emily. New York: Knopf Books for Young Readers. (Novel in verse)
5. Spires, Elizabeth. (1999). The Mouse of Amherst. Illustrated by Claire A. Nivola. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (Picture book biography)
6. Winter, Jeanette. (2002). Emily Dickinson's Letters to the World. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.  (Picture book biography)
7. Yolen, Jane. (2009). My Uncle Emily. Illustrated by Nancy Sippel Carpenter. New York: Philomel. (Picture book biography)

Middle School: 5-8

1. Burak, Kathryn. (2012). Emily's Dress and Other Missing Things. New York: Roaring Brook Press (Fiction)
2. Dana, Barbara. (2009). A Voice of Her Own: Becoming Emily Dickinson. New York: HarperTeen. (Fiction)
3. Dickinson, Emily. (2008). My Letter to the World and Other Poems. Illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault. Kids Can Press. 
4. Lewis, J. Patrick. (2003). The Last Resort. Illustrated by Robert Innocenti. Mankato, MN: Creative Editions. (Includes ED in illustration and credits her as muse)
5. MacColl, Michaela. (2014). Nobody's Secret. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books. (Fiction)
6. Meltzer, Milton. (2005). Emily Dickinson: A Biography.  Lerner Pub Group. 
7. Yolen, Jane. (2012). The Emily Sonnets: The Life of Emily Dickinson.  Illustrated by Gary Kelley. Mankato, MN: Creative Editions. 

For the Birds, Part 2 - Books for Grades 5-8

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from Peter Sis'sThe Conference of the Birds.

Traditional and Contemporary Stories

Lumbard, Alexis York. (2012). The Conference of the Birds. Illustrated by Demi. Bloomington, IN: Wisdom Tales Press.

Martin, Rafe. (2007). Birdwing. New York: Scholastic.

Sis, Peter. (2011). The Conference of the Birds. New York: Penguin.

from  Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95. 

Informational & Literary Nonfiction

Arnonsky, Jim. (2011). Thunder Birds: Nature’s Flying Predators. New York: Sterling.

Fleischman, Paul. (2013). I Am a Phoenix: Poems for Two Voices. Illustrated by Ken Nutt. New York: HarperCollins.

Hoose, Philip. (2012). Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Hoose, Philip. (2004). The Race to Save Lord God Bird. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

from  Looking for Seabirds: Journal from an Alaskan Voyage

Webb, Sophie. (2011). Far from Shore: Chronicles of an Open Ocean Voyage. New York: HMH Books for Young Readers.

Webb, Sophie. (2004). Looking for Seabirds: Journal from an Alaskan Voyage. New York: HMH Books for Young Readers.

Webb, Sophie. (2000). My Season With Penguins: An Antarctic Journal. New York: HMH Books for Young Readers.