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The soup bone
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Tony Johnston |
Summary, Looking for a soup bone on Halloween, a little old lady finds a hungry skeleton instead. |
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The iguana brothers, a tale of two lizards
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Tony Johnston |
Dom and Tom, the iguana brothers, eat flowers, pretend to be dinosaurs, and discover that they can be best friends. |
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That summer
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Tony Johnston |
A family, including a child who is dying, sews together a quilt of its memories and love. |
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The Cowboy and the Black-Eyed Pea
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Tony Johnston |
In this adaptation of "The Princess and the Pea," the wealthy daughter of a Texas rancher devises a plan to find a real cowboy among her many suitors. |
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The Tale of Rabbit and Coyote
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Tony Johnston |
Rabbit outwits Coyote in this Zapotec tale which explains why coyotes howl at the moon. |
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The vanishing pumpkin
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Tony Johnston |
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. |
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Very Scary
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Tony Johnston |
A pumpkin shimmering in the moonlight attracts the attention of an owl, a cat, crickets, a witch, and a group of boys and girls, who change it into a scary jack-o-lantern. |
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Alice Nizzy Nazzy
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Tony Johnston,Tomie dePaola |
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, in a Southwestern version of the Baba Yag… |
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Any Small Goodness
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Tony Johnston |
Arturo and his family and friends share all kinds of experiences living in the barrio of East Los Angeles--reclaiming their names, playing basketball, championing the school librarian, and even start… |
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Alien & Possum hanging out
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Tony Johnston |
Two good friends, Possum and Alien, spend time together celebrating their birthdays, discovering their uniqueness, and hanging out together in a tree. |
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Amber on the mountain
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Tony Johnston |
Isolated on her mountain, Amber meets and befriends a girl from the city who gives her the determination to learn to read and write. |
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The ancestors are singing
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Tony Johnston |
A collection of poems reflecting the culture, customs, daily life, and history of Mexico. |
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An old shell
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Tony Johnston |
A collection of poems exploring and celebrating the Galapagos Islands and their various animals, including "The Voyage of the Rice Rat," "Magnificent Frigatebird," and "The Sea Lion's Song." |
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The barn owls
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Tony Johnston |
For at least 100 years, generations of barn owls have slept, hunted, called, raised their young, and glided silently above the wheat fields around an old barn. |
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Big red apple
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Tony Johnston |
The wind blows an apple off a tree, a worm eats a tiny hole in it, a bird pecks at it, and a boy eats it, spitting out the seeds--from which an apple tree grows. |
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The bull and the fire truck
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Tony Johnston |
A big, bulky, brave bull named Bernardo is infuriated by anything red. |
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The Chizzywink and the Alamagoozlum
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Tony Johnston |
A huge mosquito keeps Zeke and Zelda awake, until Zelda finds a way to quiet the persistent pest. |
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Goblin walk
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Tony Johnston |
A little goblin has a series of frightening experiences while walking through the woods to his grandmother's house. |
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Gopher up your sleeve
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Tony Johnston |
Brief, humorous rhymes describe animals both ordinary and unusual, including a rooster, a javelina, and a python. |
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I'm gonna tell Mama I want an iguana
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Tony Johnston |
An illustrated collection of twenty-three humorous poems on a variety of subjects. |
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