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Since Jacqueline Jackson published her first book, Cloudlander, at age ten, she's published twelve others. Some of the older books are out of print, but copies can be found on the Internet ranging in price from bargain to outrageous. The one she gets the most queries about is Paleface Redskins, now totally un-politically correct, but it captured the imaginations of young readers in the '60s and '70s. They're looking for it now for their kids.

The Round Barn - Volume One
Beloit College Press - 2011
Begun with a promise to Grampa when Jackie was just fifteen, The Round Barn is now in print! Join her as she shares farm stories spanning almost seven decades. Meet “Daddy Dougan,” Ron, Vera and the kids: Joan, Patsy, Jackie, and Craig; the hired men, neighbors, and the town beyond. With dozens of authentic photos, this book is touching, funny, tragic, and warm – truly. “A Biography of an American Farm.”

The Round Barn - Volume Two
Beloit College Press - 2012
Begun with a promise to Grampa when Jackie was just fifteen, The Round Barn is now in print! Join her as she shares farm stories spanning almost seven decades. Meet “Daddy Dougan,” Ron, Vera and the kids: Joan, Patsy, Jackie, and Craig; the hired men, neighbors, and the town beyond. With dozens of authentic photos, this book is touching, funny, tragic, and warm – truly. “A Biography of an American Farm.”

The Round Barn - Volume Three
Beloit College Press - 2014
Begun with a promise to Grampa when Jackie was just fifteen, The Round Barn is now in print! Join her as she shares farm stories spanning almost seven decades. Meet “Daddy Dougan,” Ron, Vera and the kids: Joan, Patsy, Jackie, and Craig; the hired men, neighbors, and the town beyond. With dozens of authentic photos, this book is touching, funny, tragic, and warm – truly. “A Biography of an American Farm.”

The Round Barn - Volume Four
Beloit College Press - 2017
Begun with a promise to Grampa when Jackie was just fifteen, The Round Barn is now in print! Join her as she shares farm stories spanning almost seven decades. Meet “Daddy Dougan,” Ron, Vera and the kids: Joan, Patsy, Jackie, and Craig; the hired men, neighbors, and the town beyond. With dozens of authentic photos, this book is touching, funny, tragic, and warm – truly. “A Biography of an American Farm.”

The book

Stories From the Round Barn
Northwestern University Press - 1997
The busy and compelling life on the Dougan dairy farm in Wisconsin is recounted through stories about those living and working there: milkmen, barn hands, field workers, kids on the place, parents, grandparents, animals. It spans 1906-1949.

More Stories From the Round Barn
Northwestern University Press - 2002
The stories continue with the same cast, but adding in townsfolk, neighbors, foreign workers. The span extends to 1971.

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Taking Liberties: A Year of Illinois Times Poems
Jacqueline Jackson Publications - 2005
A collection of weekly poems published in the Illinois Times, Springfield, Illinois.

Liberty on the Ramparts: A Year of Illinois Times Poems
Jacqueline Jackson Publications - 2006
A collection of weekly poems published in the Illinois Times, Springfield, Illinois.

Liberty Takes a Break: A Year of Illinois Times Poems
Jacqueline Jackson Publications - 2007
A collection of weekly poems published in the Illinois Times, Springfield, Illinois.

Liberty Chastized: A Year of Illinois Times Poems
Jacqueline Jackson Publications - 2008
A collection of weekly poems published in the Illinois Times, Springfield, Illinois.

Liberty Vanquished: A Year of Illinois Times Poems
Jacqueline Jackson Publications - 2009
A collection of weekly poems published in the Illinois Times, Springfield, Illinois.

Liberty Endures: A Year of Illinois Times Poems
Jacqueline Jackson Publications - 2010
A collection of weekly poems published in the Illinois Times, Springfield, Illinois.

Liberty Drums On: A Year of Illinois Times Poems
Jacqueline Jackson Publications - 2011
A collection of weekly poems published in the Illinois Times, Springfield, Illinois.

Liberty Goes Gothis: A Year of Illinois Times Poems
Jacqueline Jackson Publications - 2012
A collection of weekly poems published in the Illinois Times, Springfield, Illinois.

Liberty Goes Granite: A Year of Illinois Times Poems
Jacqueline Jackson Publications - 2013
A collection of weekly poems published in the Illinois Times, Springfield, Illinois.

Liberty Apres les Heures: A Year of Illinois Times Poems
Jacqueline Jackson Publications - 2014
A collection of weekly poems published in the Illinois Times, Springfield, Illinois.

Liberty Dissected: A Year of Illinois Times Poems
Jacqueline Jackson Publications - 2015
A collection of weekly poems published in the Illinois Times, Springfield, Illinois.

Oh, My Gawd! Another Liberty!: A Year of Illinois Times Poems
Jacqueline Jackson Publications - 2016
A collection of weekly poems published in the Illinois Times, Springfield, Illinois.

Serving Up Liberty: A Year of Illinois Times Poems
Jacqueline Jackson Publications - 2017
A collection of weekly poems published in the Illinois Times, Springfield, Illinois.

Liberty Meets the New Reality: A Year of Illinois Times Poems
Jacqueline Jackson Publications - 2018
A collection of weekly poems published in the Illinois Times, Springfield, Illinois.

The book

Turn Not Pale, Beloved Snail: A Book About Writing Among Other Things
Little, Brown and Co. - 1974
A non-textbook on the joys of living and writing, for kids and adults.

The Endless Pavement - co-author William Perlmutter
Seabury Press - 1973
It's the future, the whole world is paved, everything is on wheels and people are under the rule of the Great Computermobile, until Josette with an apple take things into her own hands. This book has been turned into a ballet and a full length musical with original music by Philip Koplow.

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The book

The Orchestra Mice
Illustrated by Robert Morrow
Reilly & Lee - 1970
A troupe of musical mice put on a unique and unexpected concert: "While orchestra, leader and audience too / Fell hushed as they heard what the mousies could do, / With ten on the keyboard and two on the pedals. / The critics cheered "Bravo! They all deserve medals!"

Spring Song
Illustrated by Barbara Morrow
Kent State University Press - 1969
Thirteen verses, with music, of how each animal feels about spring: "Maa, maa!" blats the goat, / Wattles swinging at his throat. / "Frisky whiskey fills my blood! / Who can lie and chew the cud?"

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The book

The Ghost Boat
Illustrated by the author
Little, Brown and Co. - 1969
The Richards kids invent a ghost who haunts a derelict boat on their Wisconsin lake, and then find out it's not as easiy to get rid of a ghost as to think one up.

The Paleface Redskins
Illustrated by the author
Little, Brown and Co. - 1968
The Richards kids play serious Indian on a Wisconsin lake, and declare war on a Boy Scout camp that has usurped their land.

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The book

Chicken Ten Thousand
Illustrated by Barbara Morrow
Little, Brown and Co. - 1968
A chicken who feels life is a husk escapes from an egg factory and discovers the wonders of freedom, including a rooster and chicks.

Missing Melinda
Little, Brown and Co. - 1967
Twins Cordelia and Ophelia find a valuable antique doll in an attic; it's stolen, and they have some scary adventures getting it back. The final clue comes, perhaps not unexpectedly, through Shakespeare.

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The book

The Taste of Spruce Gum
Little Brown and Co. - 1966
Libby's mother travels to a Vermont lumber camp to marry her dead husband's brother, whom she's never met. Libby takes an instant dislike to the place and to her stepfather, and the story is the working out of the complicated relationships. It's set in 1903 and the lumber camp and many of the events are true.

Julie's Secret Sloth
Little, Brown and Co. - 1953
Julie, not allowed pets, comes (rather plausibly) into possession of a zoo-rejected sloth, and finds it's hard to keep any living creature secret, even one that does essentially nothing

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