Joy Masoff

Joy Masoff (born 1951) is an American children's book and textbook author.

Career The Virginia public schools have approved 14 of her books, all of which are published by Five Ponds Press. Her children's books include Fire!, Emergency, Oh Yuck! The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty,

On October 21, the publisher of Our Virginia: Our Past and Present announced that it would distribute sticker labels that could be used to cover the disputed paragraph. Subsequently, another error was spotted regarding a claim that brown bears live in the Blue Ridge Mountains, when in fact only black bears inhabit that area. The publisher announced that both statements would be removed from the second edition of the book.