Manning, Jane K.

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Manning, Jane K.

Personal

Female.

Addresses

Home—Deep River, CT.

Career

Author and illustrator.

Writings

SELF-ILLUSTRATED

This Little Piggy, HarperFestival (New York, NY), 1997.

My First Songs, HarperFestival (New York, NY), 1998.

Who Stole the Cookies from the Cookie Jar?, HarperFestival (New York, NY), 2001.

My First Baby Games, HarperFestival (New York, NY), 2001.

Cat Nights, Greenwillow Books (New York, NY), 2008.

ILLUSTRATOR

Susan Saunders, The Ghost Who Ate Chocolate, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1996.

Susan Saunders, The Haunted Skateboard, HarperTrophy (New York, NY), 1996.

Alvin Granowsky, Help Yourself, Little Red Hen!, Steck-Vaughn (Austin, TX), 1996.

Susan Saunders, The Revenge of the Pirate Ghost, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1997.

Susan Saunders, The Phantom Pen Pal, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1997.

Susan Saunders, The Ghost of Spirit Lake, HarperTrophy (New York, NY), 1997.

Susan Saunders, The Curse of the Cat Mummy, HarperTrophy (New York, NY), 1997.

Susan Saunders, The Chilling Tale of Crescent Pond, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1998.

Susan Saunders, The Case of the Eyeball Surprise, HarperTrophy (New York, NY), 1998.

Susan Saunders, The Creature Double Feature, HarperTrophy (New York, NY), 1998.

Susan Saunders, The Creepy Camp-Out, HarperTrophy (New York, NY), 1998.

Alice Low, The Witch Who Was Afraid of Witches, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1999.

Sarah Weeks, Drip, Drop, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2000.

Susan Lowell, Cindy Ellen: A Wild Western Cinderella, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2000.

Shirley Climo, Cobweb Christmas, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2001.

Melinda Luke, The Green Dog, Kane Press (New York, NY), 2002.

Linda Smith, There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Boot, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2003.

Sarah Weeks, Baa-choo!, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2004.

Pattie L. Schnetzler, Fast 'n' Snappy, Carolrhoda Books (Minneapolis, MN), 2004.

Megan McDonald, Beetle McGrady Eats Bugs!, Greenwillow Books (New York, NY), 2005.

Jane Kurtz, Do Kangaroos Wear Seat Belts?, Dutton Children's Books (New York, NY), 2005.

Gary L. Blackwood, The Just-So Woman, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2006.

Sarah Weeks, Pip Squeak, Laura Geringer Books (New York, NY), 2007.

Lola M. Schaefer, Look Behind!: Tales of Animal Ends, Greenwillow Books (New York, NY), 2008.

Biographical and Critical Sources

PERIODICALS

Booklist, December 15, 1996, Denia Hester, review of The Ghost Who Ate Chocolate, p. 727; November 15, 1998, Kay Weisman, review of That Toad Is Mine!, p. 596; September 1, 1999, Kathy Broderick, review of The Witch Who Was Afraid of Witches, p. 146; September 15, 1999, Shelley Townsend-Hudson, review of Lost Little Angel, p. 269; July, 2000, Gillian Engberg, review of Drip, Drop, p. 2046; August, 2004, Hazel Rochman, review of Baa-Choo!, p. 1946; December 1, 2006, Hazel Rochman, review of The Just-So Woman, p. 51.

Horn Book, January-February, 2005, Martha V. Parravano, review of Baa-Choo!, p. 99; July-August, 2007, Betty Carter, review of Pip Squeak, p. 406.

Kirkus Reviews, February 15, 2003, review of A Pet for Me: Poems, p. 307; April 15, 2003, review of There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Boot, p. 1079; November 1, 2004, review of Baa-Choo!, p. 1047; January 1, 2005, review of Do Kangaroos Wear Seat Belts?, p. 53; April, 2005, review of Beetle McGrady Eats Bugs!, p. 421; October 15, 2006, review of The Just-So Woman, p. 1066.

Publishers Weekly, December 3, 2001, review of A Wild Western Cinderella, p. 63; August 4, 2003, review of There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Boot, p. 79; February 28, 2005, review of Beetle McGrady Eats Bugs!, p. 66; February 28, 2005, review of Do Kangaroos Wear Seat Belts?, p. 65.

School Library Journal, June, 2000, Starr LaTronica, review of A Wild Western Cinderella, p. 134; September, 2000, Martha Topol, review of Drip, Drop, p. 211; March, 2003, Jane Marino, review of A Pet for Me, p. 219; December, 2003, Blair Christolon, review of There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Boot, p. 128; April, 2004, Donna Cardon, review of Fast 'n Snappy, p. 124; January, 2005, Susan Lissim, review of Baa-Choo!, p. 98; April, 2005, Piper L. Nyman, review of Do Kangaroos Wear Seat Belts?, p. 105; May, 2005, Suzanne Meyers Harold, review of Beetle McGrady Eats Bugs!, p. 90; November, 2006, Melinda Piehler, review of The Just-So Woman, p. 84.