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Eve Bunting Books in Order

Eve Bunting has written 249 books, published between 1950 and 2023. The first book is Just Like Everyone Else (Short Story) (1950) and the newest is Alligators, Alligators (Short Story) (2023). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
249
Published
1950–2023
Pages on record
9,766 in 159 of 249 books
Reading time
163–244 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 9,766 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 159 of 249 titles with a page count on record.

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Eve Bunting, born Eve Bolton, was a Northern Irish-born American writer of more than 250 books who lived from December 19, 1928, to October 1, 2023. Bunting wrote fiction and non-fiction, mainly novels for children and young adults, and also wrote the text of picture books. Many of the books are set in Northern Ireland, where Bunting grew up, while others range in subject from Thanksgiving to riots in Los Angeles. The Two Giants (1971) was Bunting's first book. Series in the catalogue include Frog and Friends, Horse Stories, Dinosaur Machines and Pirate Captain's Daughter, and subjects include animals, horses, stories in rhyme and mystery stories.

Source: Wikidata

How many Eve Bunting books are there?

Eve Bunting has 249 books, released between 1950 and 2023. They include 7 separate series.

Eve Bunting Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 249 Eve Bunting books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of November 2026.

  1. Cover of Just Like Everyone Else (Short Story) by Eve Bunting (1950)
  2. Cover of The Two Giants (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 1 of the Eve Bunting Picture series (1971)
  3. Cover of Pitcher to Center Field (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 1 of the Eve Bunting Children's series (1974)
  4. Cover of Ride When You're Ready (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 1 of the Horse Stories Series (1974)
  5. Cover of Dream Dancer, (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 2 of the Horse Stories Series (1974)
  6. Cover of Surfing Country (Short Story) by Eve Bunting (1974)
  7. Cover of Box, Fox, Ox, and the Peacock (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 3 of the Eve Bunting Picture series (1974)
  8. Cover of Stable of Fear (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 3 of the Horse Stories Series (1974)
  9. Cover of Lady's Girl (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 4 of the Horse Stories Series (1974)
  10. Cover of The Once-a-Year Day (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 4 of the Eve Bunting Picture series (1974)
  11. Cover of We Need a Bigger Zoo! by Eve Bunting, book 5 of the Eve Bunting Picture series (1974)
  12. Cover of The Dinosaur Trap (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 1 of the Dinosaur Machines series (1975)
  13. Cover of Springboard to Summer (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 2 of the Eve Bunting Children's series (1975)
  14. Cover of The Day of the Dinosaurs (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 2 of the Dinosaur Machines series (1975)
  15. Cover of High Tide for Labrador (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 3 of the Eve Bunting Children's series (1975)
  16. Cover of Barney the Beard by Eve Bunting, book 7 of the Eve Bunting Picture series (1975)
  17. Cover of Josefina Finds the Prince (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 4 of the Eve Bunting Children's series (1976)
  18. Cover of The Tongue of the Ocean (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 5 of the Eve Bunting Children's series (1976)
  19. Cover of One More Flight (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 6 of the Eve Bunting Children's series (1976)
  20. Cover of Skateboard Four (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 8 of the Eve Bunting Children's series (1976)
  21. Cover of Ghost of Summer by Eve Bunting, book 3 of the Eve Bunting Teen & Young Adult with Robert Gadbois series (1977)
  22. Cover of Winter's Coming (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 9 of the Eve Bunting Picture series (1977)
  23. Cover of A Part of the Dream (Short Story) by Eve Bunting (1978)
  24. Cover of Survival Camp! (Short Story) by Eve Bunting, book 5 of the Eve Bunting Teen & Young Adult with Robert Gadbois series
  1. 1
    Just Like Everyone Else (Short Story)Eve Bunting Teen & Young Adult with Robert Gadbois #11950 · 31 pages · confirmed 1/4
    195031
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  2. 2
    The Two Giants (Short Story)Eve Bunting Picture #11971 · confirmed 1/4
    1971–
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  3. 3
    A Gift for Lonny (Short Story)Eve Bunting Picture #21973 · confirmed 1/4
    1973–
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  4. 4
    Pitcher to Center Field (Short Story)Eve Bunting Children's #11974 · 64 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197464
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  5. 5
    Ride When You're Ready (Short Story)Horse Stories Series #11974 · 31 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197431
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  6. 6
    Dream Dancer, (Short Story)Horse Stories Series #21974 · 31 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197431
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  7. 7
    Surfing Country (Short Story)Eve Bunting Teen & Young Adult with Robert Gadbois #21974 · 60 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197460
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  8. 8
    Box, Fox, Ox, and the Peacock (Short Story)Eve Bunting Picture #31974 · 24 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197424
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  9. 9
    Stable of Fear (Short Story)Horse Stories Series #31974 · 31 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197431
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  10. 10
    Lady's Girl (Short Story)Horse Stories Series #41974 · 31 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197431
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  11. 11
    The Once-a-Year Day (Short Story)Eve Bunting Picture #41974 · 44 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197444
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  12. 12
    The Wild OneHorse Stories Series #51974 · confirmed 1/4
    1974–
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  13. 13
    We Need a Bigger Zoo!Eve Bunting Picture #51974 · 24 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197424
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  14. 14
    Say It Fast (Short Story)Eve Bunting Picture #61974 · 16 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197416
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  15. 15
    The Dinosaur Trap (Short Story)Dinosaur Machines #11975 · 39 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197539
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  16. 16
    Springboard to Summer (Short Story)Eve Bunting Children's #21975 · 63 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197563
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  17. 17
    The Day of the Dinosaurs (Short Story)Dinosaur Machines #21975 · 37 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197537
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  18. 18
    Escape from Tyrannosaurus (Short Story)Dinosaur Machines #31975 · confirmed 1/4
    1975–
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  19. 19
    High Tide for Labrador (Short Story)Eve Bunting Children's #31975 · 77 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197577
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  20. 20
    Death of a Dinosaur (Short Story)Dinosaur Machines #41975 · 37 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197537
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  21. 21
    Barney the BeardEve Bunting Picture #71975 · 41 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197541
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  22. 22
    Josefina Finds the Prince (Short Story)Eve Bunting Children's #41976 · 64 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197664
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  23. 23
    The Tongue of the Ocean (Short Story)Eve Bunting Children's #51976 · 35 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197635
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  24. 24
    One More Flight (Short Story)Eve Bunting Children's #61976 · 91 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197691
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  25. 25
    Demon (Short Story)Eve Bunting Children's #71976 · 39 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197639
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  26. 26
    Skateboard Four (Short Story)Eve Bunting Children's #81976 · 63 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197663
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  27. 27
    The Ghost (Short Story)Eve Bunting Children's #91976 · 37 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197637
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  28. 28
    The Creature of Cranberry Cove (Short Story)Eve Bunting Children's #101976 · confirmed 1/4
    1976–
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  29. 29
    Skateboards (Short Story)Eve Bunting Non-Fiction #11977 · 39 pages · confirmed 1/4
    197739
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  30. 30
    Ghost of SummerEve Bunting Teen & Young Adult with Robert Gadbois #31977 · 192 pages · confirmed 1/4
    1977192
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Eve Bunting books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Eve Bunting Picture in order

128 books
  1. 1. The Two Giants (Short Story)
  2. 2. A Gift for Lonny (Short Story)
  3. 3. Box, Fox, Ox, and the Peacock (Short Story)
  4. 4. The Once-a-Year Day (Short Story)
  5. 5. We Need a Bigger Zoo!
  6. 6. Say It Fast (Short Story)
  7. 7. Barney the Beard
  8. 8. The Big Cheese (Short Story)
  9. 9. Winter's Coming (Short Story)
  10. 10. The Skate Patrol
  11. 11. St. Patrick's Day in the Morning
  12. 12. Goose Dinner (Short Story)
  13. and 116 more in the table above

Eve Bunting Children's in order

64 books
  1. 1. Pitcher to Center Field (Short Story)
  2. 2. Springboard to Summer (Short Story)
  3. 3. High Tide for Labrador (Short Story)
  4. 4. Josefina Finds the Prince (Short Story)
  5. 5. The Tongue of the Ocean (Short Story)
  6. 6. One More Flight (Short Story)
  7. 7. Demon (Short Story)
  8. 8. Skateboard Four (Short Story)
  9. 9. The Ghost (Short Story)
  10. 10. The Creature of Cranberry Cove (Short Story)
  11. 11. Cop Camp (Short Story)
  12. 12. Magic and the Night River (Short Story)
  13. and 52 more in the table above

Eve Bunting Teen & Young Adult with Robert Gadbois in order

27 books
  1. 1. Just Like Everyone Else (Short Story)
  2. 2. Surfing Country (Short Story)
  3. 3. Ghost of Summer
  4. 4. A Part of the Dream (Short Story)
  5. 5. Survival Camp! (Short Story)
  6. 6. For Always
  7. 7. Nobody Knows but Me
  8. 8. Fifteen
  9. 9. Two Different Girls
  10. 10. Terrible Things (Short Story)
  11. 11. The Empty Window (Short Story)
  12. 12. The Waiting Game (Short Story)
  13. and 15 more in the table above

Frog and Friends Series in order

8 books
  1. 1. Frog and Friends (Short Story)
  2. 2. Party at the Pond (Short Story)
  3. 3. Best Summer Ever (Short Story)
  4. 4. Frog's Flying Adventure (Short Story)
  5. 5. Outdoor Surprises (Short Story)
  6. 6. Frog Saves the Day (Short Story)
  7. 7. Frog's Lucky Day (Short Story)
  8. 8. Celebrate Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Eve (Short Story)

Horse Stories Series in order

7 books
  1. 1. Ride When You're Ready (Short Story)
  2. 2. Dream Dancer, (Short Story)
  3. 3. Stable of Fear (Short Story)
  4. 4. Lady's Girl (Short Story)
  5. 5. The Wild One
  6. 6. Goodbye, Charlie, (Short Story)
  7. 7. The Wild Horses, (Short Story)

Dinosaur Machines in order

4 books
  1. 1. The Dinosaur Trap (Short Story)
  2. 2. The Day of the Dinosaurs (Short Story)
  3. 3. Escape from Tyrannosaurus (Short Story)
  4. 4. Death of a Dinosaur (Short Story)

Eve Bunting Non-Fiction

4 books

4 titles published under this heading without a numbered place in a series.

Trophy Picture Books in order

3 books
  1. 22. Market Day (Short Story)
  2. 23. Going Home (Short Story)
  3. 28. Moonstick

Pirate Captain's Daughter in order

2 books
  1. 1. The Pirate Captain's Daughter
  2. 2. Voyage of the Sea Wolf

Meet the Author in order

1 book
  1. 2. Once Upon a Time (Short Story)

Discover the World in order

1 book
  1. 6. S Is for Shamrock (Short Story)

Do you have to read Eve Bunting books in order?

You only need to read Eve Bunting books in order within each series: the books listed here span 7 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Eve Bunting

Start with Just Like Everyone Else (Short Story) (1950), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Eve Bunting book?

Alligators, Alligators (Short Story) (2023) is the newest Eve Bunting book released so far.

Is there a new Eve Bunting book coming?

No next Eve Bunting book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Awards Eve Bunting has won

Wikidata records 2 awards for Eve Bunting. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given. Award data is sourced from Wikidata.

Eve Bunting at a glance

Died
Eve Bunting died in 2023, according to Wikidata.
Last book
The newest book credited to Eve Bunting on record dates from 2023.
Release pace
Eve Bunting books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length
9,766 pages across the 159 of 249 books with a recorded length, a median of 37 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Eve Bunting books, 62 of 249, were published in the 1990s.

When Eve Bunting books were published

Publication distribution by decade, showing when Eve Bunting titles appeared. 1990s was the most productive decade with 62 titles.

1950s
1
1970s
53
1980s
51
1990s
62
2000s
51
2010s
29
2020s
2

249 books total across 7 decades. Decade reflects the year each title was first catalogued.

What the Eve Bunting books are about

221 of the 249 Eve Bunting books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: children's fiction is tagged on 143 of 221. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

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