Vanita Oelschlager

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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books
  • First Book:
    March 2008
  • Latest Book:
    May 2018
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Book List in Order: 21 titles

  • My Grampy Can't Walk

  • Let Me Bee

    Let Me Bee is about unfounded fear and how children can reduce these anxieties as they learn and understand more about the source of their alarm. A little boy is, understandably, afraid of bees. ""You don't know how I feel when I see a bee and it see...

  • What Pet Will I Get

    What parent hasn't heard their child say ""I want a puppy, or a kitten?"" Or he or she might want a more exotic pet like a ferret, snake, hamster, lizard, even a snail. How do you explain that your home may not be right for a pet? Still, you may give...

  • Made in China

    Made In China touches on two seemingly unrelated subjects - adoption and sibling relations. As told in this story. These are intertwined and very important to one young child who literally was ""made in China."" The story begins when the child is tol...

  • Postcards from a War

    Postcards from a War is about a boy whose mother has recently been deployed overseas to a war. His grandfather, who was about the same age when his father left to serve in World War II, helps him understand why she has gone away. He shares with his g...

  • A Tale of Two Daddies

    A Tale of Two Daddies is a playground conversation between two children. The boy says he heard that the girl has two dads. The girl says that is right. She has Daddy and Poppa. True to a child’s curiosity, practical questions follow. “Which da...

  • Porcupette Finds a Family

    Porcupette Finds a Family, is a story about how a baby porcupine (called a porcupette) finds a new family after losing his mother. He wants to have an attachment to the bear family he finds, but is afraid his “bear” mother and “bear” broth...

  • Carrot

    Carrot is a delightful story about a common house cat who finds that the grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Carrot envies the fancy white cat she sees on a yacht in the bay and fantasizes a life of wealth: “She would be ...

  • Life Is a Bowl Full of Cherries

    Life is a Bowl Full of Cherries show children the magic of idioms " words that separately have one meaning, but together take on something entirely different. Children are curious about words, especially phrases that make them laugh (“Couch po...



  • Elefante

    Elefante is VanitaBooks’ first board book for young children.  It’s said that elephants never forget.  Poor Elefante forgets everything, like tying his shoes and picking up his toys.  But he also forgets his shyness and when a playmate is m...

  • A Tale of Two Mommies

    A Tale of Two Mommies is a beach conversation among three children. One boy asks another boy about having two mommies. A young girl listening in asks some questions too. True to a child’s curiosity, practical questions follow. “Which mom is th...

  • Knees: The Mixed Up World of a Boy with Dyslexia

    Knees shows the ups and downs of life with dyslexia. We have done this book in the style and size of a chapter book so that younger children and older children at low reading levels can read what seems to be an older child's book. We cover dyslexi...

  • Out of the Blue

    Out of the Blue shows children the magic of idioms " words that separately have one meaning, but together take on something entirely different. Children are curious about words, especially phrases that make them laugh (“Tickled Pink”), sound...

  • Silent Is the Magpie

    This novel is literary fiction with a romance and feminist slant. It is written for women... maybe older women. It is about a woman who finds her sense of identity, power and voice. It might fit the self-help genre but has an adventure/romance ele...

  • Farfalla: A Story of Loss and Hope

    The story is told from the perspective of a young Beetle who, with his mother, meets a crowd of caterpillars in the garden they all frequent. Soon they become friends and he watches in awe as the caterpillars weave themselves into cocoons. A speci...

  • I Came from the Water: One Haitian Boy's Incredible Tale of Survival

    The story is based on the actual experiences of Moses, an eight year-old boy and resident of St. Helene’s orphanage outside Port-au-Prince. As an infant, he was lit- erally plucked from the waters of a nearby river, having been placed in a baske...

  • Ariel Bradley, Spy for General Washington

    Ariel Bradley is Washington’s boy spy who pretends to be a country bumpkin (a“Johnny Raw”). He ‘stumbles’ into General Howe’s camp “looking for the mill” hisfather has sent him in search of. In reality, he is assessing the strength an...

  • Magic Words: From the Ancient Oral Tradition of the Inuit

    Magic Words describes a world where humans and animals share bodies andlanguages, where the world of the imagination mixes easily with the physical. Itbegan as a story that told how the Inuit people came to be and became a legendpassed from generatio...

  • The Pullman Porter

    Children and adults under the age of 40 are forgetting about the Pullman Porter. They were very important figures in the history of American. This book will teach children and adults, who the porters were and why they were so important in our history...



  • Don't Dangle Your Participle

    Words and pictures show children what a dangling participle is all about. Young readers are shown an incorrect sentence that has in it a dangling participle. They are then taught how to make the sentence read correctly. It is done in a cute and humor...

  • Fish-Boy

    The Arctic region of North America is a land of long days, icy cold, hardy people and peculiar creatures. The Inuit people there have made traditional use of remarkable folk tales to find truth and explain the mysteries of an astonishing world.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Vanita Oelschlager has published 21 books.

Vanita Oelschlager does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Fish-Boy, was published in May 2018.

The first book by Vanita Oelschlager, My Grampy Can't Walk, was published in March 2008.

No. Vanita Oelschlager does not write books in series.
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