![]() ![]() Yolen has also criticized the Harry Potter series: In the children's writing community, she is known for her pithy observations and her generosity toward beginning writers and illustrators. Some of her awards to date: the Caldecott Medal, two Nebula Awards, two Christopher Medals, the World Fantasy Award, three Mythopoeic Awards, both first and second place in the 2007 Dwarf Stars Award, the Golden Kite Award, the Jewish Book Award, the Association of Jewish Libraries Award, and the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement. Many of her poems, like her books, have won awards. Yolen said that writing poems and short stories comes to her more naturally, but that she has tried to master the longer form when a particular story called for it. ![]() Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens, Favorite Folktales From Around the World, Xanadu and Xanadu 2 are among the works that she has edited. This latter anthology was edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Yolen also has a gift for the very short story, as evidenced by "Angelica" in 100 Great Fantasy Short-Short Stories. ![]() One example is "Memoirs of a Bottle Djinni" in Arabesques (edited by Susan Schwartz in 1988). Her many short stories can be found in books as diverse as Am I Blue?: Coming out from the Silence and Briar Rose (The Fairy Tales Series). Newsweek called Jane Yolen "the Hans Christian Andersen of America" and The New York Times labeled her "a modern equivalent of Aesop." ![]()
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