Sweethearts of Rhythm: The Story of the Greatest All-Girl Swing Band in the World, Dial Books, 2009, Illustrator Jerry Pinkney, ISBN 9780803731875
The Freedom Business: Including A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa. Front Street, 2008, ISBN 978-1-932425-57-4 (englisch, Google Books).
The Freedom Business: Connecticut Landscapes Through the Eyes of Venture Smith (Lyme Historical Society, Florence Griswold Museum, 2006, illustrated by American paintings from the Florence Griswold Museum)
Marilyn Waniek, Elizabeth Alexander, illustrated by Floyd Cooper: Miss Crandall’s School for Young Ladies and Little Misses of Color. Wordsong, 2007, ISBN 978-1-59078-456-3 (englisch, Google Books).
Pemba’s Song : A Ghost Story (Scholastic Press, 2008, with Tonya Hegamin)
The Cat Walked Through the Casserole (Carolrhoda Books, 1984, with Pamela Espeland, various illustrators)
The Ladder by Halfdan Rasmussen (translated from Danish, Candlewick, 2006, illustrated by Pierre Pratt)
The Thirteenth Month by Inge Pedersen (translated from Danish, Oberlin College Press, 2005)
Hecuba by Euripedes, in Euripedes I, Penn Greek Drama Series (translated from earlier English translations, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998)
Hundreds of Hens and other poems for children by Halfdan Rasmussen (translated from Danish, Black Willow Press, 1982, with Pamela Espeland, illustrations by D.M. Robinson)