Jane Kurtz is an American writer of more than forty picture books, middle-grade novels, nonfiction, ready-to-reads, and books for educators. A member of the faculty of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in children's and adult literature, Kurtz is an international advocate for literacy and writing. She was also part of a small group of volunteers who organized the not-for-profit organization, Ethiopia Reads, which has established more than seventy libraries for children, published books, and built four schools in rural Ethiopia.
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The storyteller's beads
1998
ISBN 9780152010744
Faraway home
2000
ISBN 9780152000363
River Friendly, River Wild
2007
ISBN 9781416934875
Celebrating New Jersey
2015
ISBN 9780544761209
I'm sorry, Almira Ann
1999
ISBN 9780805060942