Virginia Kroll

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  • Bibliography:
    36 Books
  • First Book:
    April 1993
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 36 titles

  • Africa Brothers and Sisters

  • Naomi Knows It's Springtime

  • Pink Paper Swans

  • The Seasons and Someone

  • Wood-Hoopoe Willie

    This wonderful tale is about Willie"a boy who taps, drums or thumps to express the music he feels inside. Willie dreams of playing the African instruments of his ancestors that his Grandpa describes: guedras, ecasas, atumpan and dundun drums. Reade...

  • Jaha and Jamil Went Down the Hill

    Hey, diddle, diddle, Cricket did fiddle
    While Firefly mimicked the moon.
    Wildebeest rumbled
    While Wild Dog grumbled, and Lion chased after Baboon.

    Introducing Mother Goose as you've never seen her before! This unique look at Africa pr...

  • Sweet Magnolia

    Join Denise as she visits her grandmother in the Louisiana bayou for a school vacation she'll never forget! Grandma, a wildlife rehabilitator, shares her knowledge with Denise as they explore the mysterious bayou. Together they meet myriad creatures ...

  • Carp for Kimiko

    A wonderful look into Japanese tradition and culture through the eyes of a young girl, Kimiko. Every year on Children's Day in Japan a kite in the shape of a carp is flown for each boy in the family. Kimiko desperately wants an orange, black, and whi...

  • Masai and I

    When a little girl learns in school about a tall, proud African people called the Masai, she discovers a sense of kinship and imagines herself living in Africa. She would live in a circle of huts in a tiny village. Instead of having a hamster as a pe...



  • Hands!

  • Motherlove

  • New Friends, True Friends, Stuck-Like-Glue Friends

    "Wriggly friends Squiggly friends Laughing and giggling friends All-kinds-of weather friends Always-together friends"This whimsical look at friendship presents boys and girls playing together in a variety of settings. Combining Virginia Kroll's bounc...

  • She Is Born

  • Girl, You're Amazing!

  • Butterfly Boy

    Every sunny afternoon, Emilio wheels his grandfather outside to watch the butterflies. Emilio's grandfather can no longer speak, but Emilio can see happiness in the older man's eyes as he watches butterflies dance through the air. But one day the but...

  • Especially Heroes

  • Boy, You're Amazing!

  • Forgiving a Friend

    Seth's best friend, Jacob, broke Seth's truck. Seth knows it was an accident, but still, it was his favorite toy! He tells Jacob to go home and not come back. But when Seth goes to visit his neighbor, Grandma Grace, he accidentally breaks a lamp....

  • Jason Takes Responsibility

    Jason has an important job to do. He has to take the invitations for Grandma's birthday party to the mailbox right away. But then he sees Carson flying a new eagle kite in the park. It won't matter if he stops to fly the kite for a minute, will it?...



  • Brianna Breathes Easy: A Story about Asthma--A Concept Book

    During dress rehearsal for the school play, Brianna gets a bad coughing attack and she has to go to the hospital where she learns that she has asthma, but when Brianna learns more about asthma and how to manage it, things are soon under control for h...

  • Equal Shmequal

    Mouse and her friends want to play tug-of-war, but they’ll need to use some everyday math to figure out how to make teams that are equal. As Mouse looks at various solutions she is not sure what it means to be equal. Nothing works until Mouse start...

  • Marta and the Manger Straw

    In World War II Poland, a young girl receives straw at the Christmas Eve service to bring to her impoverished family. But on her way home, Marta meets others who are much poorer than she, and she shares her piece until there is nothing left. In spite...

  • Cristina Keeps a Promise

    Cristina can't believe that her favorite author will be in town for a booksigning! She plans to go. But when it conflicts with the Special Olympics event that she promised her brother she would attend, she has an important decision to make....

  • Good Neighbor Nicholas

    Nicholas can't stand his next-door neighbor, Mr. Robinson. Mr. Robinson gets mad about everything. Dad explains that Mr. Robinson is probably grumpy because of some personal troubles. But Nicholas doesn't care, at least until he has a bad day of his ...

  • Ryan Respects

    Ryan is fast like a cheetah, but his friend Doug is not. After they get timed in gym, Doug comes in behind everyone else. "Doug the Slug," chants Ryan and he gets a lot of laughs. Doug is upset but Ryan doesn't notice....

  • Really Rabbits

    Young readers will delight in this silly story about two rabbits, Tulip and Snuggle, who learn how to open their cage and then begin doing household chores so their owners can spend more time with them....

  • Good Citizen Sarah

    When Sarah's block loses power after a snowstorm, she is sad that she can't play her new computer game. But then she sees her elderly neighbor, Mrs. Warren, in her home alone looking sad. Should she help Mrs. Warren?...

  • The Thanksgiving Bowl

    When Grandma Grace�s Thanksgiving bowl topples off the table and into the lives of others, it becomes a useful found object for all who encounter it. From one Thanksgiving to the next, the bowl makes its way upstream and downstream, through s...

  • On the Way to Kindergarten

    Celebrate milestones with a new?or soon to be? kindergartner.

    When you were newborn, you ate, burped and cried. Every year there is more you can do. And now you are five, and going to kindergarten! For anyone who is proud of a new kindergartner, ...



  • Selvakumar Knew Better

    “Tsunami! Run!” The bright December morning dawned like any other. The Ramakrishnan family went about their daily business, but their scruffy yellow dog, Selvakumar, felt something in the air. When a low rumbling noise began to fill the village, ...

  • Saying Grace: A Prayer of Thanksgiving

    Find special mealtime prayers and Thanksgiving activities inside! Grace’s mind was racing. What was that spelling word that meant ‘great generosity in giving’? She squeezed her eyes shut, and it came to her. Bounty. That was the word! Journey b...

  • Everybody Has a Teddy

    PreS - K - A boy describes all of his classmates' teddy bears. In gentle rhyming verse, he notes that Poppy has a floppy bear/her grammy made from socks./Livi's has paint splattered on it-/looks like chicken pox! There is a bear that can dance, a gia...

  • Easter Eggs for Anya

    This Traditions of Faith book features a unique Ukrainian Celebration of New Life in Christ -- the coloring and exchange of pysanky eggs at Eastertime. Children love coloring Easter eggs. Easter Eggs for Anya is a story to explain one of the origins ...

  • Mosquito

    A pesky mosquito gets his due. Mosquito is a nuisance to all the animals as he buzzes about the forest. With fun word play, including rhyme, alliteration, and onomatopoeia, each critter expresses its annoyance with him. Finally, Mosquito bothers t...

  • Makayla Cares about Others

    Makayla loves to fix all kinds of things, and thanks to the toolbox Grandpa gave her, she's ready to mend anything she can. When Aunt Karen's turtle figurine broke or when Mr. Bell's bird-feeder fell off the tree, Makayla was there to help. On her wa...

  • Can You?

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Virginia Kroll has published 36 books.

Virginia Kroll does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Can You?, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Virginia Kroll, Africa Brothers and Sisters, was published in April 1993.

No. Virginia Kroll does not write books in series.
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