II", "Sleep to Dreamier Sleep Be Wed", "On Seeing Bob Balaban in Person Twice in One Week", "When He Started Saying 'I Appreciate It' After 'Thank You'", "You'll Have to Save That For Another Time", "Woman, Foghorn", "How Do Koreans Feel About the Germans?", "Georgia is Lost", "They Decide To Have No More Death", "Roderick Hopes" How the Water Feels to the Fishes (2007), part of One Hundred and Forty-Five Stories in a Small Box, collection of 31 short stories: "Once a year", "Accident", "Old enough", "She needs a new journal", "Sooner", "The commercials of Norway", "Lily", "The boy they didn't take pictures of", "The fights not fought", "The horror", "How the water feels to the fishes", "How to do it", "Go-getters", "Deeper", "The battle between", "There are different kinds", "Alberto", "You still know that boy", "No safe harbor", "The bounty", "On making him a good man calling him a good man", "Thoughtful that way", "We can work it out", "No one knows", "The island from the window", "The anger of the horses", "California moved west", "How the air feels to the birds", "The man who", "Older than", "Steve again" Uncollected short stories: "The Man At The River" (2013) "We Like You So Much and Want to Know You Better" (2013) "The Alaska of Giants and Gods" (2014) "Understanding the Sky" (2015) Children's books The Haggis-on-Whey World of Unbelievable Brilliance series (as "Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey", with Christopher Eggers, picture books): Giraffes? Giraffes! (2003) Your Disgusting Head (2001) Animals of the Ocean, in Particular the Giant Squid (2006) Cold Fusion (2008) Children and the Tundra (2010) Stand-alones: When Marlana Pulled a Thread (2011), picture book The Bridge Will Not Be Gray (2015), with illustrations by Tucker Nichols, picture book Her Right Foot (2017), with illustrations by Shawn Harris, picture book The Lifters (2018) What Can a Citizen Do? (2018), with illustrations by Shawn Harris, picture book Abner & Ian Get Right-Side Up (2019), with illustrations by Laura Park, picture book Most of the Better Natural Things in the World (2019), with illustrations by Angel Chang, picture book Tomorrow Most Likely (2019), with illustrations by Lane Smith, picture book Faraway Things (2021), with illustrations by Kelly Murphy, picture book Non-fiction Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America's Teachers (2005), with Daniel Moulthrop and Nínive Clements Calegari, sociology Zeitoun (2009), biography It Is Right to Draw