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==Works== ===Prydain series=== {{Main |The Chronicles of Prydain}} ;''The Chronicles of Prydain'' :* ''[[The Book of Three (novel)|The Book of Three]]'' (1964) :* ''[[The Black Cauldron (novel)|The Black Cauldron]]'' (1965), winner of the 1966 [[Newbery Honor]] :* ''[[The Castle of Llyr]]'' (1966) :* ''[[Taran Wanderer]]'' (1967) :* ''[[The High King]]'' (1968), winner of the 1969 [[Newbery Medal]] ;Supplementary :* ''Coll and His White Pig'' (1965), picture book :* ''The Truthful Harp'' (1967), picture book :* ''[[The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain]]'' (1973, expanded 1999) ===Westmark trilogy=== :* ''[[Westmark (novel)|Westmark]]'' (1981)—National Book Award<ref name=nba1982/> :* ''[[The Kestrel]]'' (1982) :* ''[[The Beggar Queen]]'' (1984) ===Vesper Holly series=== {{main|Vesper Holly}} :* ''The Illyrian Adventure'' (1986) :* ''The El Dorado Adventure'' (1987) :* ''The Drackenberg Adventure'' (1988) :* ''The Jedera Adventure'' (1989) :* ''The Philadelphia Adventure'' (1990) :* ''The Xanadu Adventure'' (2005) ===Other=== :* ''And Let the Credit Go'' (1955)—autobiographical first novel<ref name=wpost/> :* ''My Five Tigers'' (1956) :* ''Border Hawk: August Bondi'' (1958)—biography of [[August Bondi]] for children<ref name=isfdb/> :* ''Janine is French'' (1960)—Alexander also collaborated to write a stage adaptation of this<ref>{{cite web|last=Caust-Ellenbogen|first=Celia|title=Philadelphia, according to Lloyd Alexander|url=http://libwww.freelibrary.org/blog/index.cfm?postid=1190|work=Free Library Blog|publisher=Free Library of Philadelphia|access-date=17 September 2013}}</ref> :* ''My Love Affair with Music'' (1960) :* ''The Flagship Hope: Aaron Lopez'' (1960)—biography of [[Aaron Lopez]] for children<ref name=isfdb/> :* ''Park Avenue Vet'' (1962), by Alexander and Dr. [[Louis J. Camuti]], New York City cat veterinarian :* ''Fifty Years in the Doghouse'' (1963); originally ''Send for Ryan!'', retitled in 1964—non-fiction "concerning [[William Michael Ryan]] and the [[American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals|American SPCA]]"<ref name=isfdb/> :* ''[[Time Cat: The Remarkable Journeys of Jason and Gareth]]'' (1963)—first children's fantasy<ref name=about1999/><ref name=isfdb/> :* ''The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian'' (1970)—[[National Book Award]]<ref name=nba1971/> :* ''The King's Fountain'' (1971) :* ''The Four Donkeys'' (1972) :* ''[[The Cat Who Wished to Be a Man]]'' (1973) :* ''The Wizard in the Tree'' (1974) :* ''The Town Cats and Other Tales'' (1977) :* ''[[The First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha]]'' (1978) :* ''The Big Book for Peace'' (1990) :* ''The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen'' (1991) :* ''The Fortune-Tellers'' (1992) :* ''The Arkadians'' (1995) :* ''The House Gobbaleen'' (1995) :* ''[[The Iron Ring]]'' (1997) :* ''[[Gypsy Rizka]]'' (1999) :* ''How the Cat Swallowed Thunder'' (2000) :* ''The Gawgon and the Boy'' (2001); UK title, ''The Fantastical Adventures of the Invisible Boy''<ref name=isfdb/> :* ''The Rope Trick'' (2002) :* ''Dream-of-Jade: The Emperor's Cat'' (2005) :* ''The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio'' (2007)—last book published ===Translations=== :* ''The Diary of Antoine Roquentin'' ([[London]]: [[John Lehmann]], 1949), first English translation of [[Jean-Paul Sartre]], ''[[Nausea (novel)|La Nausée]]'' ([[Éditions Gallimard]], 1938). The celebrated [[existentialist]], [[epistolary novel]] is better known by the direct translation of its title, ''[[Nausea]]''.<!-- source is our article --> :* ''[[The_Wall_(Sartre_short_story_collection)#"Intimacy"|Intimacy]]'' ([[London]]: Neville Spearman Ltd., 1949), translation of ''[[The Wall (Sartre short story collection)|Le Mur]]'' by [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] ([[Éditions Gallimard]], 1939) :* ''Selected Writings'' ([[London]]: Routledge & Kegan, 1952), by [[Paul Éluard]] ===Adaptations=== ''The Cat Who Wished to Be a Man'' and ''The Wizard in the Tree'' were adapted and produced in Japan. Also in Japan, ''The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian'' was made into a TV series.{{sfn|Gale Literature|2007|p=3}} In 1985, [[Walt Disney Animation Studios|Disney]] released an [[animated film]] based on the first two books of the Prydain series, called ''[[The Black Cauldron (film)|The Black Cauldron]]''. The first Disney animated film to employ computer-generated images, it was a box-office failure and received mixed critical reviews. It was not released for home video until over a decade later. As of 2016, Disney was in early production of another adaptation of the Prydain series.<ref>{{cite news |last1=McNary |first1=Dave |title=Chronicles of Prydain Movie in the Works at Disney |url=https://variety.com/2016/film/news/chronicles-of-prydain-movie-disney-1201733058/ |access-date=4 March 2020 |work=Variety |date=March 17, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Miller |first1=John J. |title=Taran Wanders Again |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704206804575468221723518354 |access-date=4 March 2020 |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |date=September 15, 2010}}</ref>
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