Tony Johnston

This version of the familiar story in which a mistreated step-child finds happiness with the "man" of her dreams is set in the old-growth forest and features Bigfoot characters.

The antics of ten fat turkeys on a fence illustrate counting from ten to one.

When jellyfish brothers Spencer and Vincent are separated during a big storm, it will take the help of many friends and all of their brotherly love to reunite them.

Retells, in tall-tale fashion, how Levi Strauss went to California during the Gold Rush, saw the need for a sturdier kind of trouser, and invented jeans.

Illustrations and easy-to-read text reveal the secrets of letters, including their power to create words of all kinds.

Hands wave hello, hands hold, hands heal. Hands say, I am here for you always. In simple, stirring rhymes, author Tony Johnston pens a timeless ode to parenthood. The small moments and quiet scenes that make up childhood - learning to clap, planting a garden, waving good-bye on the first day of school - fill the pages of this gentle tale, capturing the reassurance and love that parents hand their children every day. Warm illustrations by Amy June...

Told in verse, a boy encounters first grade--with all its peaks and valleys, but most of all with new friends.