Most Popular Books by Tony Johnston

Sway to the sounds, reach for the colors, dance to the rhythms, and you will find your own Mexico in these poems in both English and Spanish. "Johnston regales the senses with idyllic scenes of streets lined with a rainbow of adobe houses, with the scent of roses growing in coffee cans and lilies in chile jars, and with the sounds of fields of corn shaking quietly in the warm wind. The overall impression is one of sunbaked cheerfulness, warmth, and color ably reinforced by Sierra''s pastel-tinted artwork." --The Horn Book

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.

In this book we learn about the various life cycles that result from the apple tree.

Pa and his family pack up their belongings and undertake the difficult journey to a new life in the West.

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

When his mother is stolen from her tomb, Ramose, a 4000-year-old mummy, tries to find her in the Egyptian desert, aboard an ocean liner, and in New York City''s Metropolitan Museum, with the help of a cranky talking camel and some young American tourists.

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

Possum and Alien become friends and find that they have both similarities and differences.

Poems in contemplation of an ecological treasure. "When you stand in this place, wild and vast and stark, looking out over the endless and shining skin of the sea, you hear the flutter and roar of Creation, feel the stir of your own beginnings upon the delicate chain of life. Here, you are at the core of the mystery and poetry of Nature." So writes Tony Johnston, who visited the Galapagos Islands in 1995, in her eloquent author''s note. This is her collection of thirty-four lyrical poems starring the wonderful islands and their unique inhabitants -- from the long-horned grasshopper to the rice rat -- and accompanied by naturalistic drawings by Tom Pohrt.

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.