Johnston, Tony

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

A young boy lists all the things he will have to take with him on his first day in kindergarten.

In this story told in verse, a yawning bear tries to convince his mother that it isn't time for bed.

A little goblin has a series of frightening experiences while walking through the woods to his grandmother's house.

Isolated on her mountain, Amber meets and befriends a girl from the city who gives her the determination to learn to read and write.

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.

A collection of poems depicting life in the country throughout the seasons of the year.

A young boy is sustained by his family as he endures the difficulties of being a slave, but when he finally gains his freedom, his joy is tempered by the death of President Lincoln.

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.

When Manuela's sheep are stolen, she has to go to Alice Nizzy Nazzy's talking road-runner-footed adobe house and try to get the witch to give the flock back.