Caryn Huberman Yacowitz

Hello! I recently spent four wonderful, snowy days in Yosemite. JOY!

"I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Menorah" will be published by Arthur A. Levine Books in 2014!

With illustrations by the amazing David Slonim, I think you will enjoy this funny Chanukah tale based on that other Old Lady and her wiggly spider.


Playwrighting and performance news:

PUMPKIN FIESTA, THE MUSICAL!

The Palo Alto Children's Theater staged an outstanding production of "PUMPKIN FIESTA, THE MUSICAL" in October, 2010. Based on my award-winning picture book of the same name (illustrated by Joe Cepeda), the play features original music by Mary Hepburn (Main Street Arts Theater, Vermont) and book and lyrics by me.

The musical expands on the book's themes of loving attention and friendship to include care of the environment. It's really fun and funny.

Contact me at yackybooks@​hotmail.com or Curtis Brown Agency, for production rights.
Please note: This play is available free for one-time classroom presentation.

BASHERT

"BASHERT" played to full houses in November 2010 and March 2011. Based on sixteen real "how-we-met" love stories, this one-hour theater piece is both sweet and poignant.
Premiere with Kol Ami Players, Los Altos Hills, CA.

A talented group of actors from The Gualala Play Reader's Group treated everyone to a wonderful reading of "BASHERT" on February 7, 2012 and proved to one and all that not just Jewish audiences cherish these stories.

Please contact me at yackybooks@​hotmail.com if your theater group, JCC or synagogue is interested in "BASHERT".


JEANS! The Musical
I'm really excited about my musical play. Visit www.jeansthemusical.com to learn all about it. (Or just scroll down to "Quick Links").

We had an amazing youth production on March 18, 2007 and April 1, 2007 in Los Altos Hills, California. Directed and produced by Masha Farber of TheatreGames.

I co-wrote JEANS! with my friends Diane Claerbout and Enid Davis. It was first performed at Main Street Arts in Saxtons River, Vermont by kids 9 to 16.

Jeans! also had two staged readings here in California--on February 8, 2004 in San Francisco and on September 18, 2004 in Sunnyvale. (see photos by hitting "JEANS!" button above.) WE ARE SEEKING MORE PRODUCTIONS OF OUR PLAY--anywhere in the country! Our e-mail is jeansthemusical@​hotmail.com


All seven of my Native American Series are now available! Comanche Indians, Seminole Indians, Iroquois Indians, Inuit Indians, Shawnee Indians, Lakota Indians, Navajo Indians are published by Heinemann Library Publishers--in hardcover and paperback. The tribal experts are happy with the books and so are the teachers and kids who have seen them.

When I was writing and researching these books, I wore something made by a person from the tribe. An Iroquois "No-face doll" necklace made by Rita Chrisjohn Benson was one of my favorites. A Navajo sandpainting called "Thunder" sits on a shelf near my computer and a beautiful Comanche doll made by Alice Comer watches while I write.


This site was last updated on:
March 5, 2012

Like Old Juana in my book, I grow big, fat, orange pumpkins. PUMPKIN FIESTA! the Muscial play is available to schools FREE.

My book THE JADE STONE is now also a musical play! It is one of the three plays in ENTER THE DRAGON by Leslie Li and Mary Hepburn. Contact me by e-mail for copies of THE JADE STONE, the book, and THE JADE STONE, the play.