Lisa Jahn-Clough is the author and illustrator of picture books and the author of young adult novels, a series of early-reader comic books, and young chapter books. Her first book Alicia Has a Bad Day was published in 1994 and is still in print! Her most recent publication is The Kids Of Cattywampus Street, a collection of surreal stories for early chapter book readers. It is an Amazon Editor’s pick and has been hailed as “so extraordinary it will make you lose your mind” by Lemony Snicket.
Lisa’s work has won awards from Child Magazine, Parent's Choice, Bank Street, Raising Readers, Entertainment Weekly, and YALSA. She earned a BA from Hampshire College and an MFA from Emerson College and has been writing, illustrating, and teaching for the last twenty-five years. She is a tenured professor at Rowan University in southern New Jersey and every summer heads to an island in Maine where she runs a small art gallery and a low-key gift and card publishing company.
YOUNG ADULT
Nothing But Blue
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013
Me, Penelope (illustrated by Natalie Andrewson)
Houghton Mifflin, 2007
MIDDLE GRADE
The Kids Of Cattywampus Street (Short Stories)
Penguin/Random House/Anne Schwartz Books, 2021
Country Girl, City Girl
Clarion Books, 2009
EARLY READER
Petal and Poppy and the Mystery Valentine (illustrated by Ed Briant)
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015
Petal and Poppy and the Spooky Halloween (illustrated by Ed Briant)
Clarion Books, 2014
Petal and Poppy and the Penguin (illustrated by Ed Briant)
Clarion Books, 2014
Petal and Poppy (illustrated by Ed Briant)
Clarion Books, 2014
PICTURE BOOK
Felicity and Cordelia: A Tale of Two Bunnies
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011
Simon and Molly plus Hester
Houghton Mifflin / Walter Lorraine Books, 2009
Little Dog
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt / Walter Lorraine Books, 2006
My Friend and I
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003
On the Hill
Houghton Mifflin / Walter Lorraine Books, 2004
Alicia's Best Friends
Houghton Mifflin / Walter Lorraine Books, 2003
Alicia Has a Bad Day
Houghton Mifflin / Walter Lorraine Books, 2002
Missing Molly
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000
123 Yippie
Houghton Mifflin / Walter Lorraine Books, 1998
ABC Yummy
Houghton Mifflin / Walter Lorraine Books, 1997