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Eve Bunting is an Irish-American author that writes children’s novels. Born in 1928 in Maghera, North Ireland, her father (Sloan) was a postmaster. Her mother (Mary) was a housewife. Eve has a husband, children, grandchildren, and a few pets.
Order of Frog and Friends Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Frog and Friends (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Party at the Pond (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Best Summer Ever (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Frog's Flying Adventure (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
5 | Outdoor Surprises (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Frog Saves the Day (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Frog's Lucky Day (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
8 | Frog and Friends Celebrate Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Eve (Short Story) | 2015 | Description / Buy |
Order of Discover the World Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | S Is for Shamrock (Short Story) | 2007 | Description / Buy |
Order of Karen Kepplewhite & Janet Hamm Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Karen Kepplewhite is the World's Best Kisser (Short Story) | 1983 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Janet Hamm Needs a Date for the Dance (Short Story) | 1986 | Description / Buy |
Order of Pirate Captain's Daughter Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Pirate Captain's Daughter | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Voyage of the Sea Wolf | 2012 | Description / Buy |
Order of Eve Bunting Standalone Books
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Just Like Everyone Else (Short Story) | 1950 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Barney the Beard | 1975 | Description / Buy | |
3 | One More Flight (Short Story) | 1976 | Description / Buy | |
4 | Ghost of Summer | 1977 | Description / Buy | |
5 | The Big Cheese (Short Story) | 1977 | Description / Buy | |
6 | Winter's Coming (Short Story) | 1977 | Description / Buy | |
7 | Magic and the Night River (Short Story) | 1978 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The Haunting of Kildoran Abbey | 1978 | Description / Buy | |
9 | Oh, Rick (Short Story) | 1978 | Description / Buy | |
10 | Nobody Knows but Me | 1978 | Description / Buy | |
11 | The Girl in the Painting | 1978 | Description / Buy | |
12 | The Big Red Barn (Short Story) | 1979 | Description / Buy | |
13 | Terrible Things (Short Story) | 1980 | Description / Buy | |
14 | St. Patrick's Day in the Morning | 1980 | Description / Buy | |
15 | The Undersea People | 1980 | Description / Buy | |
16 | The Ghosts of Departure Point (Short Story) | 1982 | Description / Buy | |
17 | The Traveling Men of Ballycoo | 1983 | Description / Buy | |
18 | The Valentine Bears (Short Story) | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
19 | Someone Is Hiding on Alcatraz Island (Short Story) | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
20 | If I Asked You, Would You Stay? | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
21 | Ghost Behind Me | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Maggie the Freak | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
23 | The Man Who Could Call Down Owls (Short Story) | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
24 | Clancy's Coat (Short Story) | 1984 | Description / Buy | |
25 | Face at the Edge of the World | 1985 | Description / Buy | |
26 | The Haunting of Safekeep | 1985 | Description / Buy | |
27 | Scary, Scary Halloween (Short Story) | 1986 | Description / Buy | |
28 | The Mother's Day Mice (Short Story) | 1986 | Description / Buy | |
29 | Sixth-Grade Sleepover (Short Story) | 1986 | Description / Buy | |
30 | Ghost's Hour, Spook's Hour (Short Story) | 1987 | Description / Buy | |
31 | Will You Be My POSSLQ? | 1987 | Description / Buy | |
32 | A Sudden Silence (Short Story) | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
33 | Is Anybody There? | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
34 | How Many Days to America? (Short Story) | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
35 | Jane Martin, Dog Detective (Short Story) | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
36 | Happy Birthday, Dear Duck (Short Story) | 1988 | Description / Buy | |
37 | The Ghost Children | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
38 | The Wednesday Surprise (Short Story) | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
39 | No Nap (Short Story) | 1989 | Description / Buy | |
40 | Such Nice Kids (Short Story) | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
41 | The Wall (Short Story) | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
42 | In the Haunted House (Short Story) | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
43 | Our Sixth-Grade Sugar Babies | 1990 | Description / Buy | |
44 | Fly Away Home (Short Story) | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
45 | A Turkey for Thanksgiving (Short Story) | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
46 | The Hideout | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
47 | A Perfect Father's Day | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
48 | Jumping the Nail | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
49 | Night Tree (Short Story) | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
50 | Sharing Susan (Short Story) | 1991 | Description / Buy | |
51 | Our Teacher's Having a Baby (Short Story) | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
52 | Summer Wheels (Short Story) | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
53 | Coffin on a Case (Short Story) | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
54 | The Day Before Christmas (Short Story) | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
55 | The Island of One (Short Story) | 1992 | Description / Buy | |
56 | Someday a Tree (Short Story) | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
57 | Red Fox Running (Short Story) | 1993 | Description / Buy | |
58 | Flower Garden (Short Story) | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
59 | A Day's Work (Short Story) | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
60 | Nasty, Stinky Sneakers (Short Story) | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
61 | Sunshine Home (Short Story) | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
62 | Smoky Night (Short Story) | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
63 | The In-Between Days (Short Story) | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
64 | Night of the Gargoyles (Short Story) | 1994 | Description / Buy | |
65 | Dandelions (Short Story) | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
66 | Cheyenne Again (Short Story) | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
67 | Spying on Miss Muller | 1995 | Description / Buy | |
68 | S.O.S. Titanic | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
69 | Train to Somewhere (Short Story) | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
70 | I Don't Want to Go to Camp (Short Story) | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
71 | Market Day (Short Story) | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
72 | Sunflower House (Short Story) | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
73 | Going Home (Short Story) | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
74 | Secret Place (Short Story) | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
75 | The Blue and the Gray | 1996 | Description / Buy | |
76 | December (Short Story) | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
77 | I Am the Mummy Heb-Nefert (Short Story) | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
78 | The Pumpkin Fair (Short Story) | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
79 | Ducky (Short Story) | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
80 | On Call Back Mountain (Short Story) | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
81 | Trouble on the T-Ball Team (Short Story) | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
82 | My Backpack (Short Story) | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
83 | Twinnies (Short Story) | 1997 | Description / Buy | |
84 | Some Frog! (Short Story) | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
85 | The Day the Whale Came (Short Story) | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
86 | Your Move (Short Story) | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
87 | So Far from the Sea (Short Story) | 1998 | Description / Buy | |
88 | Blackwater (Short Story) | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
89 | A Picnic in October (Short Story) | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
90 | Rudi's Pond (Short Story) | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
91 | Too Many Monsters (Short Story) | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
92 | I Have an Olive Tree (Short Story) | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
93 | Butterfly House (Short Story) | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
94 | Dreaming of America (Short Story) | 1999 | Description / Buy | |
95 | Can You Do This, Old Badger? (Short Story) | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
96 | Swan in Love (Short Story) | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
97 | Moonstick (Short Story) | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
98 | I Like the Way You Are (Short Story) | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
99 | Wanna Buy an Alien? (Short Story) | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
100 | The Memory String (Short Story) | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
101 | Doll Baby (Short Story) | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
102 | Who Was Born This Special Day? (Short Story) | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
103 | Dear Wish Fairy | 2000 | Description / Buy | |
104 | Gleam and Glow (Short Story) | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
105 | Little Badger, Terror of the Seven Seas (Short Story) | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
106 | The Days of Summer (Short Story) | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
107 | Riding the Tiger (Short Story) | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
108 | Jin Woo (Short Story) | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
109 | The Summer of Riley | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
110 | Peepers (Short Story) | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
111 | We Were There (Short Story) | 2001 | Description / Buy | |
112 | One Candle (Short Story) | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
113 | The Bones of Fred McFee (Short Story) | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
114 | Little Badger's Just-About Birthday (Short Story) | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
115 | Sing a Song of Piglets (Short Story) | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
116 | Girls A to Z (Short Story) | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
117 | Christmas Cricket (Short Story) | 2002 | Description / Buy | |
118 | The Wedding (Short Story) | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
119 | Anna's Table (Short Story) | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
120 | Whales Passing (Short Story) | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
121 | Little Bear's Little Boat (Short Story) | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
122 | The Presence | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
123 | My Big Boy Bed (Short Story) | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
124 | Snowboarding on Monster Mountain (Short Story) | 2003 | Description / Buy | |
125 | My Special Day at Third Street School (Short Story) | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
126 | I Love You, Too (Short Story) | 2004 | Description / Buy | |
127 | The Lambkins | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
128 | Walking to School (Short Story) | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
129 | My Red Balloon (Short Story) | 2005 | Description / Buy | |
130 | One Green Apple (Short Story) | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
131 | That's What Leprechauns Do (Short Story) | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
132 | My Robot (Short Story) | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
133 | My Mom's Wedding (Short Story) | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
134 | Reggie (Short Story) | 2006 | Description / Buy | |
135 | The Baby Shower (Short Story) | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
136 | Baby Can (Short Story) | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
137 | Hurry! Hurry! (Short Story) | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
138 | Emma's Turtle (Short Story) | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
139 | The Man with the Red Bag | 2007 | Description / Buy | |
140 | You Were Loved Before You Were Born (Short Story) | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
141 | Mouse Island (Short Story) | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
142 | Our Library (Short Story) | 2008 | Description / Buy | |
143 | The Banshee (Short Story) | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
144 | Finn McCool and the Great Fish (Short Story) | 2009 | Description / Buy | |
145 | Will It Be a Baby Brother? (Short Story) | 2010 | Description / Buy | |
146 | Green Shamrocks (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
147 | Hey Diddle Diddle (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
148 | Tweak Tweak (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
149 | Pirate Boy (Short Story) | 2011 | Description / Buy | |
150 | Ballywhinney Girl (Short Story) | 2012 | Description / Buy | |
151 | The Cart That Carried Martin (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
152 | Have You Seen My New Blue Socks? (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
153 | Big Bear's Big Boat (Short Story) | 2013 | Description / Buy | |
154 | Washday (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
155 | P is for Pirate (Short Story) | 2014 | Description / Buy | |
156 | Yard Sale (Short Story) | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
157 | Whose Shoe? (Short Story) | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
158 | Forbidden | 2015 | Description / Buy | |
159 | Thunder Horse (Short Story) | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
160 | I'm a Duck (Short Story) | 2018 | Description / Buy |
Eve Bunting Anthologies
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Valyra and the Dragons and Other Fanciful Adventure Stories | 1994 | Description / Buy |
Most of her education took place in Northern Ireland, specifically Belfast. A former student of Methodist College and Queen’s University, Eve was still studying when she stumbled upon her future husband. She met the business executive in college and the two started a family soon after.
Initially migrating to Scotland, Eve and Edward eventually decided to move to the US. That was in 1958. A decade later, she became a United States citizen. She was already older than most aspiring authors when Eve finally sat down to write fiction.
As a child, the author was obsessed with Northern Ireland’s rich storytelling culture. She was particularly fascinated by the so-called Shanachies, storytellers that went from home to home spreading ancient folktales. While she thought that she fit the idea of a Shanachie, Eve did not necessarily harbor notions of pursuing a publishing career.
Everything changed when she immigrated to the US. Eve Bunting spent several years raising her three children. But eventually, they did not need her quite as much. She stumbled upon a brochure promoting a writing class at the local Junior college.
Eve knew that there was no shortage of ideas for stories in her mind. And she understood that writing them down would give her great joy. But, still, she wasn’t certain of her future in publishing. None the less, she signed up for the class, honed her skills, and published her first novel.
Having taken up the pen in her mid-thirties, Eve Bunting was 40 when her first book was finally published. It was an exploration of a folktale that followed the exploits of an Irish giant and his conflict with a Scottish giant.
The story was so common in Ireland that Eve thought everyone knew it. Once she realized that Finn McCool wasn’t quite as well known as she presumed, Eve made him the center of her story. The exotic setting and foreign concepts in her work won Eve many adoring fans.
She went on to write many more novels, building an extensive bibliography with over 200 published works over a relatively short period. The author writes children’s books. She tries to produce content to fit all ages. She has always wanted to write for every child, not just the pre-schooler but the middle grader and the older teens.
Her bibliography also includes adult-oriented novels. Her stories are not afraid to tackle difficult subjects. She always adds as much diversity as possible, introducing children to characters of all backgrounds. Eve’s stories tackle happiness, death, immigration, basically every concept that is present in the real world regardless of how negative it might be.
Eve Bunting Awards
Bunting has been the recipient of the PEN Los Angeles Center Literacy Award, the Arab American Book Award, and the Golden Kite Award
Best Eve Bunting Books
Even though so many of her works are set in Ireland, Eve Bunting makes an effort to be as inclusive as possible with the characters she uses, with some of the best titles in her bibliography including:
Smoky Night: A young boy and his mother live quiet lives in an apartment building. They keep to themselves, minding their own business. The same goes for their neighbors. Everyone avoids unnecessary interactions with everyone else. When violent riots descend on Los Angeles, the pair is forced to kindle bonds with their neighbors at a time where they must all unit to survive the looting.
This picture book tackles racial tensions and rioting.
Fly Away Home: Andrew is a boy without a home. He stays with his father in an airport because it is better than living on the street. Survival isn’t easy. They have to keep moving from terminal to terminal. This is the only way to keep the relevant authorities from noticing them. What seems like a bleak situation takes a curious turn when a bird that was trapped gains its freedom.
This book is 32 pages long because it is aimed towards children, hence the illustrations. But it still discusses homelessness in such a straightforward manner.
When Does The Next Eve Bunting book come out?
Eve Bunting doesn't seem to have an upcoming book. Their newest book is I'm a Duck and was released on March, 13th 2018.