Allan Wolf

TWINKL is a website of  teacher-created resources that celebrated National Poetry Month by featuring the work of ten poets, including me and a couple of my favorites, April Halprin Wayland and the iconic Charles Ghigna (aka Father Goose). You can check out the post HERE!

To kick off National Poetry Month, 2021, I’d like to share this fun video of The Haiku Song. Please share it around, and remember that April 17th is National Haiku Day. This 3-minute video snippet is a part of a full-length video I’ve put together for the older elementary grades. New Author/Poetry Videos for Elementary Grades While in-person author visits are on hold due to the pandemic, I’ve begun to offer full-length videos for the elementary grades. Each video features fun performances and talking points just as my live presentations do. Available for classrooms, schools, and libraries in search of an asynchronous author experience, we can also arrange synchronous on-line…

I was interviewed by Bookpage about The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep! In his new novel in verse, critically acclaimed author Allan Wolf revisits a grisly chapter of westward expansion with a fresh and thought-provoking look at the doomed travelers of the Donner Party, a group of 89 pioneers who became trapped in the Sierra Nevada and infamously resorted to eating their dead to survive. We spoke to Wolf about the unique narrator of The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep, some of the unexpected ways he researched the book and why cannibalism wasn’t the hardest part of the book to write. Read the rest here.

My latest novel, The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep: Voices from the Donner Party, has been chosen as one of five finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature. While the winners will not be announced until April 16, I’m honored simply to be in the running for this prestigious prize. There is no “campaigning” for inclusion. No author, publisher, bookseller, editor, or publicist is allowed to directly recommend books to the 3-person panel of judges.  In a tumultuous year of racial,  political, and pandemic upheaval what would cause a book about the Donner Party to rise to the surface of such crowded, choppy waters? The…

I’m excited to celebrate the release of my new picture book No Buddy Like a Book with the illustrator Brianne Farley at my favorite independent bookstore Malaprops! RSVP here February 12th, 6 pm EST Preorder the book here and get it signed and personalized if you want! Just indicate in the comment section of checkout.  

“Disasters are fascinating,” Wolf says. “You know what’s going to happen, and you know it’s going to be bad, but the characters don’t.” The Mountain Xpress  interviewed me about the new book.  It gives some background on how I did my research, and touches on why this book is so relevant right now. Like all good stories, we are drawn in to relate to the characters, and gain insight into how they behaved under difficult circumstances. You can’t help but see eerie similarities to our current crisis. How do you keep your humanity in a situation like that? So I guess this book, like COVID, it’s just a bunch of…

I’m pleased to announce the release of my latest historical novel in verse (for grade 6 and up), The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep: Voices from the Donner Party.  Please join me for a short virtual book launch on Wed, September 9 at 6:00PM ET hosted by Malaprops Bookstore & Cafe. Three Graves will be released simultaneously as an audio-book, with a full-cast of voices featuring Bahni Turpin who just won an Audie Award for narrating The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas. Turpin is joined by a veteran ensemble of voice actors including Ramon de Ocampo who is the voice of The Diary of a Wimpy Kid audio books.…