Laurence Yep Books

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The Man Who Tricked a Ghost
Initially, I set out to read The Dragon Prince: A Chinese Beauty and the Beast Tale with my daughter since she loves anything to do with princes and princesses. Despite the beautiful artwork, she did not even sit through the first three pages. We went back to our public library and found The Man Who Tricked a Ghost. I don't know if it had to do with the Halloween season or what, but she wanted me to read this one every night for a week.
Like my daughter, I too enjoyed this book more. For me, I love to read and teach trickster tales, so this was right up my alley. An avid fan of Halloween and all things eery, I also loved the scary illustrations that complemented the storyline. In fact some of the illustrations were so scary, that I was hesitant to show some of them to my four-year-old, but consider sharing this with my seventh graders for a Halloween treat. Never before had I seen such scary illustrations in a children's book.
Novels

1. Sweetwater. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.
2. Dragonwings. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
3. Child of the Owl. New York: Harper & Row, 1977.
4. Sea Glass. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.
5. Dragon of the Lost Sea. New York: Harper & Row, 1982.
6. Kind Hearts and Gentle Monsters. New York: Harper & Row, 1982.
7. The Mark Twain Murders. New York: Four Winds, 1982.
8. Liar, Liar. New York: Morrow, 1983.
9. The Serpent's Children. New York: Harper & Row, 1984.
10. The Tom Sawyer Fires. New York: Morrow, 1984.
11. Dragon Steel. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.
12. Mountain Light. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.
13. Shadow Lord: A Star Trek Novel No. 22. New York: Pocket Books, 1985.
14. Monster Makers, Inc. New York: Arbor House, 1986.
15. The Curse of the Squirrel. New York: Random House, 1987.
16. The Rainbow People. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.
17. When the Bomb Dropped: The Story of Hiroshima. New York: Random House, 1990.
18. Dragon Cauldron. New York: HarperCollins, 1991.
19. The Star Fisher. New York: Morrow, 1991.
20. Tongues of Jade. New York: HarperCollins, 1991.
21. The Lost Garden. Englewood Cliffs: Messner, 1991.
22. Dragon War. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
23. Dragon's Gate. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.
24. The Butterfly Boy. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1993.
25. The Man Who Tricked a Ghost. Mahwah, NJ: Bridgewater, 1993.
26. The Shell Woman & the King: A Chinese Folktale. New York: Dial, 1993.
27. The Boy Who Swallowed Snakes. New York: Scholastic, 1994.
28. The Ghost Fox. New York: Scholastic, 1994.
29. The Junior Thunder Lord. Mahwah, NJ: Bridgewater, 1994.
30. Tiger Woman. Mahwah, NJ: Bridgewater, 1994.
31. The City of Dragons. New York: Scholastic, 1995.
32. Later, Gater. New York: Hyperion, 1995.
33. Thief of Hearts. New York: Harper, 1995.
34. Tree of Dreams: Ten Tales from the Garden of Night. Mahwah, NJ: Bridgewater, 1995.
35. Hiroshima. New York: Scholastic, 1995.
36. Ribbons. New York: Putnam, 1996.
37. The Mongolian Shepherd. New York: Scholastic, 1996.
38. The Case of the Goblin People. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.

Adult Books

1. Seademons. New York: Harper & Row, 1977.

Plays

1. "Pay the Chinaman" in Between Worlds: Contemporary Asian-American Plays. Misha Berson, ed. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1990, pp.176-196.
2. Dragonwings. New York: Dramatist Play Service, 1993.

Short Stories

1. "Selchey Kids," in Wollheim, Donald A. and Terry Carr. eds. World's Best Science Fiction 1969. New York: Ace, 1969.
2. "My Friend, Klatu," in Signs and Wonders. Roger Elwood, comp. Old Tappan, NJ: Revell, 1972. also in Visions of Tomorrow. Roger Elwood, ed. New York: Ace, 1976.
3. "Looking-Glass Sea," in Strange Bedfellows: Sex and Science Fiction. Thomas N. Scortia, ed. New York: Random House, 1972, pp.165-177.

Edited Works

1. Yep, Laurence, ed. American Dragons: Twenty-Five Asian American Voices. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.

Articles

1. "Writing Dragonwings." Reading Teacher. Vol. 30, No. 4 (January 1977): 359-363.
2. "Fantasy and Reality." Horn Book. Vol. 54 (April 1978): 136.
3. "Attack of the Giant Teenage Space Dogs: Notes of a Science Fiction Film Fan." Top of the News. Vol. 39, No.1 (Fall 1982): 92-94.
4. "The Green Cord." Horn Book. Vol 65 (May-June 1989): 318-22.
5. "A Cord to the Past." CMLEA. Vol. 15 (Fall 1991): 8-10.
6. "A Garden of Dragons." The ALAN Review. Vol. 19, No. 3 (Spring 1992): 6-8.

Other Media

1. Laurence Yep. Filmstrip/cassette. Westminster: Random House/Miller/Brody, 1981.
2. The Curse of the Squirrel. Sound recording. Music by Arthur Custer. New York: Random House, 1989.
3. The Rainbow People. 3 Cassettes. Prince Frederick: Recorded Books, 1993.
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