Joan Carris Papers 2
Joan Carris Papers 2 
Collection Inventory
Box 8
17.5” x 11.5” x 3.75
Howling for Home. Boston: Little, Brown, 1992.
Working titles: Who Needs School Anyway?
A Good Time to Howl
Gallant Beau
1. Correspondence
2. Handwritten notes
a. Work Calendar
b. Class members
c. Order of lessons
d. Teaching lessons
e. Chapter Ideas
f. Terminology
3. Synopsis of chapters 6-10
4. Who Needs School Anyway?
a. First edited draft
b. Ending, 1988
c. January 1990 draft
5. A Good Time to Howl
a. First proposal for Little, Brown October 1990
b. Second draft for Little, Brown
6. Gallant Beau
a. Sample Chapter—First Chapter Book Genre
b. Typed manuscript with revision—August 15, 1991
c. Manuscript rewrite—September 1991
7. Typed manuscript with corrections
8. Author’s galley set
Box 9
17.5” x 11.5” x 3.75
A Ghost of a Chance. Boston: Little, Brown, 1992.
1. Original manuscript edited
2. Edited manuscript and sample pages with dialect changes
3. Research notes and information
4. Correspondence
5. Typed manuscript with revisions for paperback 2002 with correspondence
Box 10
17.5” x 11.5” x 3.75
Stolen Bones. Boston: Little, Brown, 1993.
1. Correspondence
2. Research notes and Chapter Outlines
3. Original typed manuscript
4. Early sketches by Stephen Marchesi
5. Typed manuscript—March rewrite
6. Typed manuscript with revisions
7. Typed manuscript
8. Galleys with illustrations
Box 11
17.5” x 11.5” x 3.75
Beware the Ravens, Aunt Morbelia. Boston: Little, Brown. 1995.
1. Correspondence
2. Research notes
3. Typed manuscript
4. Corrected galley with correspondence dated 8/05/94
5. Draft #3 with revisions
6. Chapter 13—sixth draft
7. Chapter 13—seventh draft
8. Rewrite samples—Chapters 12 and 13
(Note: School visits: Pass out chapters and discuss rewriting)
9. Summary of Who’s Stalking Aunt Morbelia (working title for Beware the Ravens)
10. Copy edited manuscript
Box 12
17.5” x 11.5” x 3.75
Panic Plan for the SAT. Lawrenceville, NJ: Thomson/Peterson’s, 2005.
1. First revision, 1995
2. Revisions 1998 and correspondence
Wicked Water. Beaufort, NC : North Shore Books, 2005.
Working Title: Trapped by the Flood
1. Typed manuscript
2. Typed manuscript with revisions—2004 version
3. Notes
4. Correspondence
Box 13
17.5” x 11.5” x 3.75
Welcome to the Bed and Biscuit. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press,2006.
1. Typed manuscript—1st draft with handwritten notes fall 2001
2. Typed manuscript—2nd draft revised 10/02
3. Layout of B & B
4. Typed manuscript with editor’s comments 2/10/03
5. Typed manuscript—3rd draft 3/03
6. Typed manuscript with handwritten notes 3/03
7. Typed manuscript with editor’s comments and handwritten notes 5/03
8. Typed manuscript with revisions 8/03
9. Typed manuscript with editor’s comments 8/03
10. Final revision 11/03
11. Correspondence
12. Typed manuscript with revisions—final edits
Box 14
17.5” x 11.5” x 3.75
Wild Times at the Bed & Biscuit. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press, 2009.
1. Typed manuscript pages 1-21—Early Draft—7/06
2. Typed manuscript with revisions pages 21-43
3. Typed manuscript—Original manuscript—12/06
4. Typed manuscript with editorial comments--Chapters 1-5—12/06-3/07
5. Typed manuscript with revisions pages 1-21—12/06-3/07
6. Typed manuscript with revisions—4/07
7. Typed manuscript with revisions and editor notes—6/07
8. Typed manuscript—revisions #2—6/07
9. Typed manuscript with revisions—6/07
10. Typed manuscript pages 35-57 (Close to final manuscript)—6/07
11. Typed manuscript—Final copy—7/07/07|
12. Author notes—5/08 and 7/08
13. Correspondence
14. Research materials and notes
Box 15
17.5” x 11.5” x 3.75
Magic at the Bed & Biscuit. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2011.
1. Typed manuscript with correspondence—Early draft
2. Typed manuscript—first polished draft—12/13/07
3. Typed manuscript with revisions—Chapters 1-4—1/18/08
4. Typed manuscript with revisions—Chapters 5-8—2/08
5. Typed manuscript—Chapters 1-4--Early revisions—3/19/08
6. Typed manuscript with revisions—7/08 version
7. Typed manuscript with revisions—Fall 2008 version
8. Typed manuscript with revisions—10/3/08
9. Typed manuscript with revisions and notes—12/08 version
10. Typed manuscript—Chapters 1-4—1/09 version
11. Typed manuscript—1/09 revision
12. Manuscript pages with revisions and correspondence—2/18/09
13. Typed manuscript with revisions and notes—6/21/09
14. Manuscript pages with correspondence—6/09
15. Typed manuscript with revisions—June/July 2009 version
16. Copyedited manuscript with correspondence—10/07/09
17. Research materials and Notes
18. Correspondence