Cynthia Rylant

Cynthia Rylant is an American librarian and author, who was born on 6th June 1954. She has done 100 and above children’s books and this includes fiction work. The fiction work involved short stories, novels and picture books.

The best place to start is the Ready-to-Read Level 2 series, the earliest of Cynthia Rylant's multi-book series: it opens with Big Boss (1975) and runs to 66 books across 1975–2024, ending with Whale and the Mystery Mango (2024). Cynthia Rylant's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Cynthia Rylant has 286 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1975 and 2026. 194 of them belong to 16 named series — the largest being the Ready-to-Read Level 2 series with 66 books — and 92 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Cynthia Rylant's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Ready-to-Read Level 2 (1975–2024, 66 books), Little House (1988–2002, 7 books) and Henry and Mudge (1989–2006, 18 books), plus 13 more.

This guide splits Cynthia Rylant's 286 books into 16 named series and 92 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Ready-to-Read Level 2 (66 books, 1975–2024); Mr. Putter & Tabby (25 books, 1994–2016); Henry and Mudge (18 books, 1989–2006); Annie and Snowball (13 books, 2007–2012); Poppleton (10 books, 1997–2023), plus 11 further series.