Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. Angela Johnson is the author of the Coretta Scott King Honor picture book When I Am Old with You; as well as A Sweet Smell of Roses, illustrated by Eric Velasquez; Just Like Josh Gibson, illustrated by Beth Peck; and I Dream of Trains, which was also illustrated by Loren Long. She has won three Coretta Scott King Awards, one each for her novels Heaven, Toning the Sweep, and The First Part Last. In recognition of her outstanding talent, Angela was named a 2003 MacArthur Fellow. She lives in Kent, Ohio.
Series
Books
Toning the Sweep
1993
Lottie Paris and the Best Place
2013
The First Part Last
2003
Sweet, Hereafter
2009
I Dream of Trains
2003
The Leaving Morning
1992
Rain Feet
1994
Daddy Calls Me Man
1997
Heaven
1998
All This and Heaven Too
Heaven; The First Part Last; Sweet, Hereafter
2013
The Other Side
Shorter Poems
1998
Half-Minute Horrors
2009
Gone from Home
Short Takes
1998
Those Building Men
2001
The Day Ray Got Away
2010
A Sweet Smell of Roses
2005
Bird
2004
On the Fringe
2001
Songs of Faith
1998
Running Back To Ludie
2001
Do Like Kyla
1990
Lottie Paris Lives Here
2011
One Of Three
1991
The Wedding
1999
Joshua By The Sea
1994
When I Am Old With You
1990
Mama Bird, Baby Birds
1994
A Cool Moonlight
2003
Violet's Music
2004
Humming Whispers
1995
Julius
1993
Down on the Winding Road
2000
Looking for Red
2002
All Different Now
Juneteenth, the First Day of Freedom
2013
A Girl Like Me
2020
Just Like Josh Gibson
2004
The Rolling Store
1997
Tell Me A Story Mama
1989
Lily Brown's Paintings
2009
Joshua's Night Whispers
1994
A Certain October
2012
The Aunt in Our House
1996
