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A versatile writer, Allan Wolf's picture books, poetry collections, young adult novels, and nonfiction celebrate his love of research, history, science, and poetry. He is a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist, two-time winner of the North Carolina Young Adult Book Award, and recipient of New York’s Bank Street College Claudia Lewis Award for Poetry. Booklist placed Allan’s The Watch That Ends the Night, on its list of the 50 Best YA Books of All Time.

Wolf believes in the healing powers of poetry recitation and has committed to memory nearly a thousand poems.

His newest titles include: a YA historical novel in verse, (The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep: Voices from the Donner Party); a picture book (No Buddy Like a Book); a poetry collection
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September Update

Dear gentle Po-Folk,
There is a lot to howl about in the Wolf Den this fall.
 
A Picture Book
My brand-new picture book, The Blanket Where Violet Sits, is now available everywhere! It stars a girl eating a sandwich on a blanket, in a park, in a city, on a planet, in a solar system, in a galaxy, in a universe! As she looks through her telescope, Violet sits at the center of it all, surrounded by starli

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Published on September 04, 2022 14:38
Average rating: 4.0 · 6,946 ratings · 1,581 reviews · 25 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Watch That Ends the Night

4.15 avg rating — 3,617 ratings — published 2011 — 22 editions
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Who Killed Christopher Good...

3.60 avg rating — 902 ratings — published 2017 — 9 editions
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The Snow Fell Three Graves ...

4.19 avg rating — 734 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions
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Zane's Trace

3.72 avg rating — 486 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions
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New Found Land: Lewis and C...

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No Buddy Like a Book

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The Day the Universe Explod...

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Immersed in Verse: An Infor...

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The Blanket Where Violet Sits

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The Blood-Hungry Spleen and...

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3.84 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions
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“The points are not the point; the point is poetry.”
Allan Wolf

“Marriage without struggle is like an unfired clay pot.
It is easily made, but it will not stand the test of time.”
Allan Wolf, The Watch That Ends the Night

“Man's fatal flaw is misplaced optimism.”
Allan Wolf, The Watch That Ends the Night




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