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Janet Taylor Lisle
Janet Taylor Lisle (b. 1947) is an author of children’s fiction. After growing up in Connecticut, Lisle graduated from Smith College and spent a year working for the volunteer grou...view moreJanet Taylor Lisle (b. 1947) is an author of children’s fiction. After growing up in Connecticut, Lisle graduated from Smith College and spent a year working for the volunteer group VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) before becoming a journalist. She found that she loved writing human interest and “slice of life” stories, and honed the skills for observation and dialogue that would later serve her in her fiction. Lisle took a fiction writing course in 1981, and then submitted a manuscript to Richard Jackson, a children’s book editor at Bradbury Press who was impressed with her storytelling. Working with Jackson, Lisle published her first novel, The Dancing Cats of Applesap, in 1984. Since then she has written more than a dozen books for young readers, including The Great Dimpole Oak (1987) and Afternoon of the Elves (1989), which won a Newbery Honor. Her most recent novel is Highway Cats (2008).view less

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  • Investigators of the Unknown

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  • Quicksand Pond

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  • The Crying Rocks

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  • The Art of Keeping Cool

    Author Janet Taylor Lisle
  • The Dancing Cats of Applesap

    Author Janet Taylor Lisle
  • Sirens and Spies

    Author Janet Taylor Lisle
  • Angela's Aliens

    Author Janet Taylor Lisle
  • The Lampfish of Twill

    Author Janet Taylor Lisle
  • Afternoon of the Elves

    Author Janet Taylor Lisle
  • A Message from the Match Girl

    Author Janet Taylor Lisle
  • Looking for Juliette

    Author Janet Taylor Lisle
  • The Lost Flower Children

    Author Janet Taylor Lisle
  • How I Became a Writer and Oggie Learned to Drive

    Author Janet Taylor Lisle
  • The Great Dimpole Oak

    Author Janet Taylor Lisle
  • The Gold Dust Letters

    Author Janet Taylor Lisle
  • Forest

    Author Janet Taylor Lisle
  • Just So Stories

    Author Rudyard Kipling

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