Books with author Tony Johnston

Riomo Books: Love Learning To Read---- Skills. Confidence. Enjoyment. ----Short Vowel Shorts: The First Five Multi-word Books Your Child Can "Read On My Own"Is your child ready to read? If they know all their letter sounds, they can sound out (decode) and read these very short, confidence-building stories for children. Ish Fish & Jin Fin is the fourth phonics eBook in this series and utilizes only the short vowel i.Help your children hop into reading with this short story about a fish and a dolphin that celebrates teamwork. Short Vowel Shorts is a series of five phonics books for kids that can help them gain confidence as they learn how to read. The books are designed to be an engaging compliment to word family or phonics worksheets and other reading activities. They don’t contain any sight words/tricky words, so children who know all their letter sounds but haven’t learned sight words yet can sound out (decode) the words and read them, initially with help from a parent or teacher, and then by themselves.Each story contains only one short vowel sound, so children are only deciphering one vowel sound for the whole story rather than a mix of multiple vowel sounds.The aim of Short Vowel Shorts is to provide parents and teachers with an option for a phonics step between single letter sounds/word families and short stories that contain sight words and a mix of multiple vowel sounds. With original full color illustrations and in story format, Short Vowel Shorts can be an engaging supplement to word families that will have children gaining skills, confidence, and enjoyment as readers, and saying: "Can I Read-It-On-My-Own?" and then: “I just Read-It-On-My-Own!”No sight words/tricky words.Full color original illustrations.Fun characters and stories.Builds Skills, Confidence & Enjoyment

Short Vowel Shorts have been described as "Pre-Dr. Seuss”Designed by a dad to delight his 4 1/2 year old, they became the first 5 stories he could "read on his own."- Vibrant original colour illustrations- NO sight words/tricky words/"silent letters"- Delightful characters- Fun or surprising story lines- ALL UPPER CASEMy son LOVES to read these books!★★★★★ out of 5- My Kindergartener is learning to read and is super enjoying this book series. He can read them with little help and thinks they are so funny! They are much more interesting than most early readers and are very basic for just starting out. I love that they are only short vowel words which build his confidence. - AcadiaM., parentA struggling reader who felt very successful★★★★ out of 4- I just used these stories with a struggling reader who felt very successful when he could decode every word! - Holly B., teacherIf your child knows their letter sounds, they're ready for the next step in loving learning to read.Now I know my ABCs, Next it's Short Vowel Shorts for me!Get all 5 Short Vowel Shorts in One Set:- Ed Egg vs. Peg Leg Egg (Book 1)- Bup Pup vs. Ug Slug vs. Hug Bug (Book 2)- Fat Cat vs. Bad Bat (Book 3)- Ish Fish & Jin Fin (Book 4)- Bob Bot & Dot Bot (Book 5)Is your child ready to read? If they know all their letter sounds, they can sound out (decode) and read these very short, confidence-building stories for children. Making Inferences & Predictions: You can simply enjoy seeing the satisfaction of a child successfully reading a whole story, or you can use the opportunity to help kids begin to develop the skills of predicting what will happen and making inferences about what happened. What is happening? What do you think will happen next?Short Vowel Shorts is a set of five phonics books for kids that can help them gain confidence as they learn how to read. The books are designed to be an engaging compliment to word family or phonics worksheets and other reading activities, so kids enjoy reading from the start.They don’t contain any sight words/tricky words or silent letters, so children who know all their letter sounds but haven’t learned sight words yet can sound out (decode) the words and read them, initially with help from a parent or teacher, and then by themselves. Each story contains only one short vowel sound, so children are only deciphering one vowel sound for the whole story rather than a mix of multiple vowel sounds. The aim of Short Vowel Shorts is to provide parents and teachers with an option for a phonics step between single letter sounds/word families and short stories that contain sight words and a mix of multiple vowel sounds. With original full color illustrations and in story format, Short Vowel Shorts can be an engaging supplement to word families that will have children gaining skills, confidence, and enjoyment as readers, and saying: "Can I Read-It-On-My-Own?" and then: “I just Read-It-On-My-Own!” Riomo BooksSkills. Confidence. Enjoyment.Love Learning to Read

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Boo-hoo-hoo! Baby hasn't a thing to eat. Mama and Papa don't know what to do. POOF! A witch appears. She knows what to do, but she's not telling. Not until Mama and Papa promise her her heart's desire! When the blubbering parents agree, the witch sends Papa on a quest for the only thing in the world that will save Baby -- yak juice. Tony Johnston is at her rambunctious best as she goes trekking and tracking with Tim Raglin on this downright gleeful read-a-loud adventure to GO TRACK A YAK!

Riomo Books: Love Learning To Read---- Skills. Confidence. Enjoyment. ----Short Vowel Shorts: The First Five Multi-word Books Your Child Can "Read On My Own"Is your child ready to read? If they know all their letter sounds, they can sound out (decode) and read these very short, confidence-building stories for children. Bup Pup vs. Ug Slug vs. Hug Bug is the second phonics eBook in this series and utilizes only the short vowel u because short vowel u is the second easiest vowel to learn to read.On your mark. Get set. Go! Help your children reach the "checkered flag" (reading a whole book!) with flying colors with this short story about what happens when a puppy, a slug and a ladybug go for a race.There's also an opportunity to teach ordinal numbers: 1st, 2nd, 3rd.You can simply enjoy seeing the satisfaction of a child successfully reading a whole story, or you can use the opportunity to help kids begin to develop the skills of predicting what will happen and making inferences about what happened.Short Vowel Shorts is a series of five phonics books for kids that can help them gain confidence as they learn how to read. The books are designed to be an engaging compliment to word family or phonics worksheets and other reading activities. They don’t contain any sight words/tricky words, so children who know all their letter sounds but haven’t learned sight words yet can sound out (decode) the words and read them, initially with help from a parent or teacher, and then by themselves.Each story contains only one short vowel sound, so children are only deciphering one vowel sound for the whole story rather than a mix of multiple vowel sounds.The aim of Short Vowel Shorts is to provide parents and teachers with an option for a phonics step between single letter sounds/word families and short stories that contain sight words and a mix of multiple vowel sounds. With original full color illustrations and in story format, Short Vowel Shorts can be an engaging supplement to word families that will have children gaining skills, confidence, and enjoyment as readers, and saying: "Can I Read-It-On-My-Own?" and then: “I just Read-It-On-My-Own!”No sight words/tricky words.Full color original illustrations.Fun characters and stories.Build Skills, Confidence & EnjoymentHelp kids Love Learning to Read

Digging is a thing I love to do.Dirt is riddled with old bones to chew.What is it about dogs that fascinates us? Is it their humor, stubbornness, charm, greed? Is it their loyalty, nobility, naughtiness, haughtiness? Is it simply their abiding love? It's all this and more. Through poems and paintings, Shadow, Rufus, Mutterly, and more than forty others become utterly irresistible--revealing the very essence of dog. •Features 43 poems celebrating a child's best friend • Includes illustrations of more than 40 breeds of dogs

A picture-book classic available for the first time in paperback. When day is done, the sun streaks the desert sky with flame. Soon the stars come out, and with them, a host of creatures. Bats spill from a hillside cave; insects seek out the sweet fruit of the saguaro; and a lone coyote sings his haunting song to the moon. Spare, lyrical words and luminous, richly textured pictures reveal the mysterious, hidden world of the desert night in this beautiful volume. . . .Deceptively simple, the words create an elegant repetitious rhythm that combines the immediacy of onomatopoeia with subtle, musical lines. . . . Quiet but not serene, the paintings evoke the mystery and unsettling beauty in the vibrant, stark landscape. Tony Johnston is the award-winning author of more than one hundred books for young readers. She lives in San Marino, California. Ed Young has written and/or illustrated more than seventy-five children's books, including Lon Po Po, winner of the 1990 Randolph Caldecott Medal, and two Caldecott Honor Books. He lives in Westchester County, New York.