Author · 1930 – 2015

Ann McGovern

American writer of more than 55 children's books, selling over 30 million copies. She may be best known for her adaptation of Stone Soup, as well as Too Much Noise, historical and travel non-fiction, and biographies of figures like Harriet Tubman and Deborah Sampson and Eugenie Clark.

Works

If you lived in colonial times
1964
Too much noise
1967
... if you sailed on the Mayflower
1969
Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest
1968
"Wanted dead or alive"
1965
The Pilgrims' First Thanksgiving
1973
--if you grew up with Abraham Lincoln
1966
The defenders; Osceola, Tecumseh, Cochise.
1970
Stone soup
1968
The secret soldier
1975
If you lived with the sioux indians
1974
Shark Lady
1978
Christopher Columbus
1962
Swimming with sea lions and other adventures in the Galápagos Islands
1992
Aesop's Fables (Apple Classics)
1963
Elephant baby
1982
La señora de la caja de cartón
1997
Sharks
1976
Adventures of the Shark Lady
1998
Arrow book of poetry
1965
Mr. Skinner's skinny house
1980
Nicholas Bentley Stoningpot III
1982
Playing with penguins and other adventures in Antarctica
1994
Runaway slave
1965
If You Lived 100 Years Ago
1999
TREASURY OF CHRISTMAS STORIES
1960
Stone Soup
1968
Aesop's Fables
2013
If You Lived in the Days of the Knights
2001
Squeals and Squiggles and Ghostly Giggles
1973
The underwater world of the coral reef
1976
Black is beautiful.
1969
Down under, down under
1989
... If you lived with the circus.
1972
Little Wolf.
1965
Night dive
1984
Questions and Answers About Sharks
1995
Zoo, where are you?
1964
Hee haw; story.
1969
Little whale
1979
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