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1) A small thing--but big

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Lizzie meets an elderly man and his companion Cecile at the park, but Lizzie's afraid of dogs, so she relies on her new friend to help her take things one step at a time.

2) Ten owies

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Johnston, Tony

Publisher

Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

Pub. Date

[2022]

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"From ice-cream induced brain freezes to bee stings to stubbed toes and bruises, ten children get ten owies that can only be cured by the following: a kiss, a hug, lots of love, and as many colorful Band-Aids as possible"

3) Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella

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Johnston, Tony

Publisher

Putnam's

Pub. Date

1998

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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.

4) 10 fat turkeys

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Johnston, Tony

Publisher

Scholastic

Pub. Date

c2004

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

5) Levi Strauss gets a bright idea or: the positively true and unfabricated story of a pair of pants

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Johnston, Tony

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub. Date

2011

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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.

6) Spencer and Vincent, the jellyfish brothers

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Johnston, Tony

Publisher

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Pub. Date

[2019]

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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.

7) Alice Nizzy Nazzy: the Witch of Santa Fe

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Johnston, Tony

Publisher

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Pub. Date

2022.

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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 this Southwestern version of the Baba Yaga story.

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Tony Johnston

1) A small thing--but big

2) Ten owies

3) Bigfoot Cinderrrrrella

4) 10 fat turkeys

5) Levi Strauss gets a bright idea or: the positively true and unfabricated story of a pair of pants

6) Spencer and Vincent, the jellyfish brothers

7) Alice Nizzy Nazzy: the Witch of Santa Fe