Jeff Moss

1942—1998

Bibliography

  • The Butterfly Jar: Poems, illustrated by Chris Demarest, Bantam, 1989.
  • The Other Side of the Door: Poems, illustrated by Demarest, Bantam, 1991.
  • The Sesame Street Book of Poetry, illustrated by Bruce McNally, Random House/ Children's Television Workshop, 1991.
  • Bob and Jack: A Boy and His Yak (picture book), illustrated by Demarest, Bantam, 1992.
  • The Sesame Street Songbook, Macmillan, 1992.
  • Hieronymus White: A Bird Who Believed That He Always Was Right, illustrated by Demarest, Ballantine (New York, NY), 1994.
  • The Dad of the Dad of the Dad of Your Dad, illustrated by Demarest, Ballantine, 1996.
  • Bone Poems, illustrated by Tom Leigh, Workman (New York City), 1997.
  • I Don't Want to Live on the Moon, illustrated by Dagmar Fehlau, Random House (New York, NY), 2002.
UNDER NAME JEFFREY MOSS
  • (With others) The Sesame Street Treasury: Featuring Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets, illustrated by Tom Cooke and others, Random House/Children's Television Workshop, 1973.
  • (With Norman Stiles and Daniel Wilcox) The Sesame Street ABC Storybook: Featuring Jim Henson's Muppets, illustrated by Peter Cross and others, Random House, 1974.
  • (With Emily Perl Kingsley and David Korr) The Sesame Street Book of Fairy Tales: Featuring Jim Henson's Muppets, illustrated by Joe Mathieu, Random House, 1975.
  • Oscar's Book, illustrated by Michael Gross, Western Publishing, 1976.
  • People in Your Neighborhood, illustrated by Richard Brown, Western Publishing/Children's Television Workshop, 1983.
  • People in My Family, illustrated by Carol Nicklaus, Western Publishing/ Children's Television Workshop, 1983.
  • (With others) The Songs of Sesame Street in Poems and Pictures: Featuring Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets, illustrated by Normand Chartier, Random House/ Children's Television Workshop, 1983.
Author of book, music, and lyrics for two musical plays, both produced by the Princeton Triangle Club; contributor of poems to anthologies, including Free to Be ... a Family, by Marlo Thomas et al., Bantam, 1990.

Further Readings

BOOKS
  • Lesser, Gerald S., Children and Television: Lessons from Sesame Street, Vintage Books, 1974, p. 240.
PERIODICALS
  • Booklist, February 1, 1990, p. 1093.
  • Detroit Free Press, November 18, 1992.
  • Kirkus Reviews, November 15, 1989, p. 1674.
  • New York Times Book Review, March 4, 1990, p. 33.
  • Publishers Weekly, October 19, 1992, p. 75.
  • School Library Journal, March, 1984, p. 148; July, 1990, p. 86.
OTHER
  • Moss, Jeff, telephone interview with Joanna Brod for Something about the Author, conducted August 27, 1992.
OBITUARIES AND OTHER SOURCES:BOOKS
  • Who's Who in Entertainment, 1998-1999, Marquis, 1999.
PERIODICALS
  • Los Angeles Times, October 1, 1998, p. A22.
  • New York Times, September 26, 1998, p. A13.
  • Washington Post, September 27, 1998, p. B8.
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