CRESCENT DRAGONWAGON

'Crescent Dragonwagon' (born as 'Ellen Zolotow', November 25 1952, New York City) is the author of more than 40 published children's books (including a Coretta Scott King Award-winner and a Reading Rainbow selection). She also has written two novels (one a New York Times Notable), several cookbooks (Passionate Vegetarian is a 2003 James Beard Award-winner), and one book of poetry.
She and her late husband, Ned Shank, owned Dairy Hollow House, a country inn and restaurant in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, where she lived for more than 30 years. She later co-founded the non-profit Writer's Colony at Dairy Hollow. She now lives in southeastern Vermont, not far from the village of Saxtons River.
She is the daughter of two noted writers: Children's book writer and editor/publisher Charlotte Zolotow and the late Hollywood biographer Maurice Zolotow.

Contents

Books

Cookbooks

Children's books

Novels

External links

Books

Cookbooks

★ ''The Commune Cookbook'' (1972) ISBN 0-671-21152-8

★ ''The Bean Book'' (1972) ISBN 0-911104-16-X

★ ''Dairy Hollow House Cookbook'' (1986) ISBN 0-02-533440-9

★ ''Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread: A Country Inn Cookbook'' (1992) ISBN 0-89480-751-X, nominated for both the James Beard and IACP Awards

★ ''Passionate Vegetarian'' (2002) ISBN 0-7611-2825-5, Winner, James Beard Award

★ ''The Cornbread Gospels (2007) ISBN 0-7611-1916-7

Children's books

★ ''When Light Turns into Night'' (1975) ISBN 0-06-021740-5

★ ''Will It Be Okay?'' (1977) ISBN 0-06-021738-3

★ ''Alligator Arrived With Apples: A Potluck Alphabet Feast'' (1985) ISBN 0-7857-0010-2

★ ''Half a Moon and One Whole Star'' (1986) ISBN 0-689-71415-7

★ ''This Is the Bread I Baked for Ned'' (1989) ISBN 0-689-82353-3

★ ''Winter Holding Spring'' (1990) ISBN 0-02-733122-9

★ ''Alligators and Others All Year Long'' (1993)

★ ''Annie Flies the Birthday Bike'' (1993)

★ ''Brass Button'' (1997)

★ ''Bat in the Dining Room'' (1997)

★ ''And Then It Rained / And Then the Sun Came'' (2002)

★ ''Sack of Potatoes'' (2002)

Novels

★ ''The Year It Rained'' (1985) ISBN 0-02-733110-5

★ ''To Take A Dare'' (1982) (co-authored with the late Paul Zindel)

External links

★ Crescent Dragonwagon's website