Zolotow's work was published by more than 20 different houses. She was an editor, and later publisher, at
Harper & Row (which was called
Harper & Brothers when she began to work there, and is now known as
HarperCollins). The poem "Missing You" from
River Winding appears in
Best Friends, a collection of poems, and "People" from
All That Sunlight appears in the collection
More Surprises (both of these anthologies bear the emblem, "A Charlotte Zolotow Book"). She contributed a story called
Enemies, illustrated by Ben Shecter, to
The Big Book for Peace where she appears alongside other well-known authors and illustrators including
Lloyd Alexander,
Steven Kellogg and
Trina Schart Hyman. One of Zolotow's titles most widely held in
WorldCat libraries is
When the Wind Stops, a picture book edited by
Ursula Nordstrom and published in 1962 with illustrations by Joe Lasker. Subsequent editions were illustrated by Howard Knotts (1975) and Stefano Vitale (1995, a revised edition). Zolotow's 1972 book ''
William's Doll'' (illustrated by
William Pène du Bois), about gender stereotypes, was adapted by composer
Mary Rodgers and lyricist
Sheldon Harnick for the children's album
Free to Be ... You and Me, and then for the subsequent television special. In 1998, the Cooperative Children's Book Center at
UW Madison School of Education (CCBC) inaugurated the
Charlotte Zolotow Award, "given annually to the author of the best picture book text published in the United States in the preceding year." (The
American Library Association Caldecott Medal is given to the illustrator of an American children's picture book.) ==Selected books==