New Releases by Tony Johnston

When two best friends compete in a mock rodeo at school, they learn that winning is not everything.

When a young girl''s beloved, exuberant grandfather becomes forgetful, she helps him by singing their favorite song.

Quilters and young readers alike will enjoy this tender story about love, family, and finding comfort in a new home. Long ago, a young girl named Abigail put her beloved patchwork quilt in the attic. Generations later, another young girl discovers the quilt and makes it her own, relying on its warmth to help her feel secure in a new home.

With the rhythmic cadences of an old-time spiritual, this unforgettable book powerfully evokes the voices of slavery and liberation. Full-color.

In Colonial Massachusetts, the ghost of a recently buried farmer haunts his widow''s house after a dog takes one of his bones on a long journey.

The narrator describes the excitement of having the train pull into the town of Jacksonville, Texas, when he was a boy.

Dom and Tom, the iguana brothers, eat flowers, pretend to be dinosaurs, and discover that they can be best friends.

Follows the adventures of three bicyclists as they ride through the countryside.

The great sculptor Gaston Pompicard creates a snow sculpture for his friends the children, and then later he receives a similar gift from them during the last snow of winter.

A pioneer mother lovingly stitches a beautiful quilt which warms and comforts her daughter Abigail; many years later another mother mends and patches it for her little girl.

Looking for a soup bone on Halloween, a little old lady finds a hungry skeleton instead.

One of the largest pictorial surveys available contains rare illustrations of jewelry, metalwork, glass ceramics, textiles, architecture, furniture, and other objects. 579 photographs display jewelry by Lalique, Mucha-designed watch, stained glass by Gaudin, interiors by Hohlwein, plus pendants, iron doors, reliefs, flatware, more.

Stealing the young goblins'' magic fan, a badger makes a fortune after using the fan to make a rich girl''s nose grow.

An illustrated collection of twenty-three humorous poems on a variety of subjects.

Farmer Mack''s attempts to measure his wonderfully fat pig create chaos on his farm.

A 700-year-old woman and an 800-year-old man, both witches, go searching on Halloween night for the pumpkin someone snitched from them.

Three episodes in which Odd Jobs does all sorts of jobs, the odder the better.