Mordicai Gerstein

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  • Bibliography:
    42 Books
  • First Book:
    March 1983
  • Latest Book:
    January 2021
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Book List in Order: 42 titles

  • Follow Me!

  • Tales of Pan

  • The Mountains of Tibet

  • Roll Over!

  • Beauty and the Beast

  • Anytime Mapleson and the Hungry Bears

  • The Seal Mother

  • The Gigantic Baby

  • The New Creatures

    In Gerstein's latest, a grandson's comment that ``dogs and cats are nice but it seems all we do is wait on them!'' launches Grandfather on a rollicking yarn about the way of the world back when it was ruled by cats and dogs. They were very lazy, he s...



  • Guess What?

  • The Story of May

  • The Shadow of a Flying Bird

  • Daisy's Garden

  • Giant

  • Bedtime, Everybody!

  • Behind The Couch

  • Stop Those Pants!

    Murray has to get dressed for school. But his pants don’t want to go! They hide under the bed! They run around the room! And they end up swinging from the ceiling light! Murray’s socks try to help; his belt offers to lasso them. But the pants won...

  • Victor

    "As the French revolutionaries begin time anew with year one of the new calendar, a feral child, who has somehow survived on his own in the wild, is delivered into the hands of Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard, a doctor and teacher of deaf children in Paris.....

  • Sparrow Jack

    A lively twist on the immigrant storyWhen John Bardsley leaves England to seek his fortune in America, he finds that his new city, Philadelphia, is crawling with inchworms! No one seems to know how to get rid of them, and the American birds turn up t...



  • Fox Eyes

    Martin is spending the end of summer with Great-Aunt Zavella. She knows the woods inside and out, every fern and every flower. She even seems to know the red fox that watches Martin when he plays the violin. Aunt Zavella has warned Martin never to st...

  • The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

    In 1974, French aerialist Philippe Petit threw a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center and spent an hour walking, dancing, and performing high-wire tricks a quarter mile in the sky. This picture book captures the poetry and ma...

  • Carolinda Clatter

    Carolinda Clatter is born noisy in a place where, legend says, loud noise will wake a sleeping giant and bring destruction. Her tale, and that of an old giant hopelessly on love with the icy moon, are told in this lovely new picture book by the 2004 ...

  • The Old Country

    Never look too long into the eyes of a fox ... 'So this is what it's like to have fingers,' the girl laughed, and pointed the bow at Gisella. 'How does the world look from the other side of the crossbow?' Gisella knew this girl. She was so very famil...

  • The White Ram

    As the rest of the animals leave on the sixth day of Creation, a patient ram waits in the Garden of Eden to complete his task and, after avoiding temptation, saves a child and fulfills God's will, in a touching story from the author of The Man Wh...

  • Leaving the Nest



    What do a baby blue jay, a kitten, a girl, and a baby squirrel have in common?
    They are emphatically curious about the world.
    They find it difficult to leave the place where they feel safest.
    And, eventually, they must all spread the...

  • A Book

    A CHILD IN SEARCH OF HER STORY Caldecott medalist Mordicai Gerstein looks at books from a whole new angle.

    Once upon a time there was a family who lived in a book. All but the youngest had stories they belonged to--fighting fires, exploring...

  • Arnold of the Ducks

    Caldecott Medal winner Mordicai Gerstein’s first picture book is even more whimsical and enchanting in its new edition than it was when it was first published twenty-five years ago....

  • Minifred Goes to School

    Rules are made to be broken... Especially for Minifred. But if she wants to go to school, she'll have to behave, right? Maybe not, because Minifred isn't a regular child--she's a kitten! In this playful picture book from Caldecott Medalist Mordi...

  • Dear Hot Dog

    Whether it’s slurping up spaghetti or catching some sun at the beach, the everyday wonders celebrated in this collection of poems will appeal to young readers. Cleverly crafted by Mordicai Gerstein, Dear Hot Dog follows three friends from the time ...



  • How to Bicycle to the Moon to Plant Sunflowers

    In this simple, step-by-step instructional picture book, learn how you too can visit the moon on your bicycle! All you need is a very long garden hose, a very large slingshot, a borrowed spacesuit, and a bicycle . . . and plenty of imagination. With ...

  • The First Drawing

    Imagine you were born before the invention of drawing, more than thirty thousand years ago. You would live with your whole family in a cave and see woolly mammoths walk by! You might even see images of animals hidden in the shapes of clouds and...

  • You Can't Have Too Many Friends!

    In this adaptation of "Drakestail," a classic French fairytale, Duck goes on an epic quest to retrieve jellybeans from the king with lots of help from his unusual friends....

  • The Night World

    Everyone in the house is sleeping, but outside, the night world is wide-awake. It's a wonderful night to explore! Perfect for bedtime, this book from Caldecott Medalist Mordicai Gerstein celebrates the secrets of the night world and the joys of...

  • I Am Pan

    Mischievous from the moment he emerges howling and screeching from his mother's womb, Pan, god of the wild, creates pandemonium wherever he goes. Noise and confusion follow him as he steals arrows from Artemis, conceives panic, tricks the moon ...

  • I Am Pan!

    Mischievous from the moment he emerges howling and screeching from his mother's womb, Pan, god of the wild, creates pandemonium wherever he goes. Noise and confusion follow him as he steals arrows from Artemis, conceives panic, tricks the moon int...

  • The Sleeping Gypsy

    A girl, alone in the desert, lies on the sand and sleeps. But she is not alone for long. A lizard, a rabbit, a turtle and other animals scrutinize her when a lion leaps into the scene and claims her for his own. A silhouette approaches from the di...

  • The Boy and the Whale

    A boy and his father discover a whale tangled in their only fishing net. Is the whale dead? While the man worries about losing their net, the boy worries about the whale. He remembers the fear he felt when, caught in a net himself in childhood, he al...

  • I Am Hermes!: Mischief-Making Messenger of the Gods

    At birth, Hermes, son of Zeus and the Nymph Maia, says his first word: "Gimme!" In this brilliant, hilarious graphic novel about the mischievous, fun-loving messenger of the gods, Caldecott Medal winner Mordicai Gerstein, transports classical mythol...

  • Moose, Goose, and Mouse

    A roving, rhyming tale about three friends in search of the perfect new home. Giggles guaranteed! Moose, Goose, and Mouse need a new house, so they set off in search of one. But when their caboose comes loose, they're off on a wild adventure -- with ...



  • The Absolutely Awful Alphabet

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    The alphabet never looked like this before--these letters have drippy noses, scratchy hair, and green teeth. They chase each other and pinch each other, and stick out their tongues. Zany art gives each letter a spectacular new personality, and the hu...

  • Murray Gets Dressed

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  • Queen Esther, the Morning Star

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    When Ester is chosen to be the king's queen, she is instructed by her cousin to never reveal that she is a Jew, thus when the king makes an order to have all the Jews killed, it is up to Queen Ester and her cousin to save their people from certain do...

Award-Winning Books by Mordicai Gerstein

The First Drawing
2014 Massachusetts Book Award (MassBook) -- Children/Young Adult


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mordicai Gerstein has published 42 books.

Mordicai Gerstein does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Moose, Goose, and Mouse, was published in January 2021.

The first book by Mordicai Gerstein, Follow Me!, was published in March 1983.

No. Mordicai Gerstein does not write books in series.
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