Diane Stanley

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  • Bibliography:
    36 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1983
  • Latest Book:
    November 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Molly

1 - The Silver Bowl (May-2011)
2 - The Cup and the Crown (Oct-2012)
3 - The Princess of Cortova (Oct-2013)

Time-Traveling Twins

Roughing It on the Oregon Trail (Aug-2001)
Thanksgiving on Plymouth Plantation (Aug-2004)

Multi-Author Series List

Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella

Bella at Midnight (Apr-2006)

Fairytale Retellings: Rumpelstiltskin

Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter (May-1997)

Book List in Order: 36 titles

  • The Conversation Club

  • Shaka: King of the Zulus

  • Fortune

  • Siegfried

  • Bard of Avon

    William Shakespeare was the son of a glovemaker, a small-town boy with a grammar school education. Yet he grew up to become the greatest English-speaking playwright in the world. Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare is both his story and...

  • Moe the Dog in Tropical Paradise

    Moe and Arlene long to escape the cold weather on their winter vacation but cannot afford to take a long trip, until they discover a way to make their own tropical island, complete with calypso music, pineapple drinks, and palm trees, at home....

  • Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens is one of the world's greatest and best loved writers. To read Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, or Nicholas Nickleby is to be drawn into a society that still seems fresh and real today: nineteenth-century London with its extr...

  • Shaka, King of Zulus

    In a picture-book biography acclaimed for both its accuracy and beauty, Diane Stanley and Peter Vennema describe how Shaka, a brilliant military strategist, rose from humble beginnings to lead a mighty people nearly two centuries ago. It is an unforg...

  • The Gentleman and the Kitchen Maid



  • Cleopatra

    Cleopatra's name still glitters across history, evoking opulence, ambition, and tragedy. Raised in the shadow of the mighty Roman Empire, she dared to dream of a world united under Egyptian rule. She almost succeeded, and if she had, we would live...

  • Woe Is Moe

    Moe, the hero of Moe the Dog in Tropical Paradise, spends his days working at a terrible job at the Frozen Cow Ice Cream Factory with his best friend Arlene, but everything changes, when he suddenly finds himself promoted to vice president. J...

  • Petrosinella: A Neopolitan Rapunzel

  • The True Adventure of Daniel Hall

  • The True Adventures of Daniel Hall

  • Elena

  • Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter

    Fairytale Retellings: Rumpelstiltskin

    0nce upon a time a miller's daughter was given an impossible task by a cruel and greedy king. She had to spin straw into gold. And who should show up to help her but an odd little man named Rumpelstiltskin.

    According to tradition, the gold-b...

  • Raising Sweetness

    Ever since the kindhearted sheriff done adopted little Sweetness (and all them other precious orphans), things has been darn near perfect out in Possum Trot. Only problem is, the meals is just a mite too interestin' (such as pickle and banana pie) an...

  • Peter the Great

    Peter the Great, crowned tsar of Russia at the age of ten, believed that whatever he wanted he should have -- and the sooner the better. What he wanted most was to bring his beloved country into the modem world. He traveled to the West to learn Eu...

  • Time Apart

    While living with her father in a recreated Iron Age village as part of a university experiment, young Ginny Davis begins to miss her sickly mother and the home she left behind, until she discovers the new wonders of her created community. Reprint....



  • Roughing It on the Oregon Trail

    Time-Traveling Twins

    What if you could close your eyes and open them to find you were amongst hundreds of pioneers in 1843, packing up your covered wagon to travel the 2,000 miles of the Oregon Trail? Meet twins Liz and Lenny and their unique grandmother, who, with the h...

  • Saving Sweetness

    "A rip-roaring tale featuring a big-hearted sheriff, a high-spirited heroine, and a happily ever after ending, all told in the tongue-rattling twang of the Old West."--School Library Journal

    Sweetness is the littlest orphan at mean, old Mrs. S...

  • Mysterious Matter of I.M. Fine

    Strange things have been happening at Franny's new school. First it was the Jelly Worm Fad. Then came the exploding headaches that kept students home for days. When the latest creepy phenomenon lands her sister in the hospital, Franny and he...

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  • Giant and the Beanstalk

    For a giant, Otto is embarrassingly polite. While all the other giants are studying Cursing, Growling, and Stomping, Otto just wants to play with his pet hen, Clara. Then one terrible day a wily human named Jack climbs up a magic bean...

  • Thanksgiving on Plymouth Plantation

    Time-Traveling Twins

    Wouldn't it be great to be part of that famous Thanksgiving feast at Plymouth Plantation back in 1621?

    Then join the Time-Traveling Twins as they sit down to an enormous FOUR-DAY feast, complete with puddings, pompions, pottages, and, of co...

  • Bella at Midnight

    Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella

    In the little village of Castle Down, in a kingdom plagued by war, lives a peasant girl called Bella. Blessed with a kind family and a loving friend, she manages to create her own small patch of sunlight in a dark and dangerous world. Bella is a blac...

  • Goldie and the Three Bears

    In this spirited new version of a classic fairy tale, we meet a determined heroine with a mind of her own. Can she help it if everyone she invites over is too bossy or too boring or too snobby or too rough? What Goldie desperately wants is a frien...

  • Trouble with Wishes

    A sculptor named Pyg carves a statue of a goddess so beautiful, so perfect, that he falls head over heels in love with her. He buys her gifts, tells her stories, and wishes with all his heart she were a real, live woman. The trouble with wishes is...

  • The Mysterious Case of the Allbright Academy

    Franny is thrilled when she's accepted by the Allbright Academy, an elite private boarding school designed to train leaders. But she knows she's not as smart as the other kids there -- or as beautiful, accomplished, confident, or mature. The fact is,...



  • Saving Sky

    Although the country is at war, terrorists strike at random, and widespread rationing is in effect, thirteen-year-old Sky Brightman is remarkably untouched by it all. She and her family live off the grid on sixty acres of rural New Mexico ranch land ...

  • The Silver Bowl

    Molly - 1

    Unwanted at home, Molly goes to work for the king of Westria as a humble scullery maid. She arrives at the castle with no education, no manners, and a very disturbing secret: She sees visions, and those visions always come true. One day, while she's...

  • The Cup and the Crown

    Molly - 2

    Night after night, Molly has visions of a beautiful goblet: one of her grandfather's loving cups, which he filled with magic that bound people together. So it hardly surprises Molly when handsome King Alaric asks her to find a loving cup to help him ...

  • The Princess of Cortova

    Molly - 3

    With tensions rising between the kingdoms of Westria and Austlind, Molly and Tobias accompany King Alaric to Cortova, where he hopes to form an alliance with the powerful King Gonzalo -- an alliance that would be sealed by Alaric’s marriage to Gonz...

  • The Chosen Prince

    From master storyteller Diane Stanley comes a spellbinding tale based on Shakespeare's The Tempest of two princes -- one chosen, one lost -- and a mysterious girl on a magical island, all caught in a great web of destiny. On the day of his birth, ...

  • Joplin, Wishing

    A heartfelt and magical middle grade novel in the tradition of Tuck Everlasting and Bridge to Terabithia, about family, wishes, and the power of true friends to work magic. While cleaning out her reclusive grandfather’s house, Joplin discovers ...

  • Second Sleep

    The time by the lake is everything perfect about a childhood summer…and maybe it also holds the answers Max needs. Give this tender middle grade novel to readers who love the mystery, friendships, and touches of magic in novels by Rebecca Stead and...

Award-Winning Books by Diane Stanley

Giant and the Beanstalk
2004 Parents Choice Award (Fall) (1998-2007) -- Silver
Mysterious Matter of I.M. Fine
2005 West Virginia Children's Book Award -- Children's
Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter
1999 Keystone to Reading Book Award -- Primary


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Diane Stanley has published 36 books.

Diane Stanley does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Second Sleep, was published in November 2021.

The first book by Diane Stanley, The Conversation Club, was published in September 1983.

Yes. Diane Stanley has 2 series.
Author Series
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