Ann Grifalconi

My Work

Not Home
A Young People's Novel
This powerful story about children encountering the alien world of Children’s homes bring us face to face with the thousand-and-one shocks of life that can change us. It is also about the lack of love, and the ultimate cost of that loss...especially on the too cool boy, Jimmy, who’s been there since he can remember...In that scene, can friendship bring a healing grace?

Village of Round and Square Houses
Winner of the Caldecott Award
Bold, dynamic, rhythmic story-telling! A perfect book for reading aloud...another world!

The Village that Vanished
Winner of the 2003 Jane Addams Award (as author).


Selected Work

Fiction
Not Home
Selected for International Reading List (IRA) Two young brothers enter a childrens shelter and learn how to survive...Not everyone can...
Fiction / Picture Book
Village of Round and Square Houses
Like no other village in the world--in Tos, Africa, the women live in round houses--the men in square ones! How this came about is told by young Osa, who had grown up there.
The Village that Vanished
Bravery and ingenuity flow on the female side of this exciting story of an entire village hiding from slavers--a story from the heart of Africa--told by a great storyteller!

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