Böcker av Ervin F. Johnston

A little tenderness goes a long way in heart-to-heart communication. It renews a right spirit and warms the hearts of all participants. Just a smile or a wave can make a good day for someone. Don't forget the hugs. The twenty-four chapters in this book provide examples of tenderness. Many of the chapters are devoted to family members. Other chapters are devoted to helping someone else, like neighbors.In one of the chapters, Emily shovels snow off a neighbor's walkway, and Kevin, her brother, who is resting on a couch, gets an inner feeling to go help Emily. He approaches Emily with a tear in his eye, and they work together shoveling snow.In several chapters, Emily and Kevin help a poor organ grinder and his little monkey. The organ grinder's house is more like a shack than a house. Emily and Kevin replace many sideboards on the exterior of the house and wallboard on the walls and ceiling inside the house. Emily and Kevin train five chimps to stand on one another's shoulders so that they are five chimps high with a paint can and brush in the hands of the top chimp. The bottom chimp moves sidewise, and when the topmost chimp is through painting his section, he hands the paint can and brush to the next chimp down. The top chimp then jumps down, and the remaining chimps continue this scenario until the entire house is painted.

Two little girls put Humpy Dumpty back together again, and he then becomes the ruler of Alohaland, where he sits at the head of the long table with nursery-rhyme characters. Humpty Dumpty invites the two little girls to come to Alohaland to hear each nursery rhyme character tell the rest of the story of his/her nursery rhyme. The long table is in the middle of a field of beautiful flowers, and the two little girls go to Alohaland by crawling through their mirrors and then down a long hallway to golden doors, which open to Alohaland.

Enter the fantasy world with dreams like visiting jungle animals on the back of an elephant, worldwide flood, singing mocking birds, a lucky gingerbread man, tap-dancing here and there, exploring a cave for diamonds and gold, four kitties dancing and singing, jumping your way to school, invasion by seagulls, five monkeys high painting a house, musical kitchen, blanket ride into space, getting chores done with the think system, dancing with rabbits, squirrels, and even a tree; travel into another universe, and a little bit of This and a little bit of That.

A young man, Scott, begins his career as an engineer on a steam engine locomotive traveling through the jungle. He encounters many jungle animals and develops an interest in communicating with them. After several years of jungle travels, he enters college, studying to become a veterinarian. In school, he met Jim who plans on starting a Jungle Animals Circus. Jim wanted Scott to talk jungle animals into performing in his circus. Scott sharpened his animal communication skills and returned to the jungle multiple times to get jungle animals for the circus.Scott met Julie at college, and after his tour of duty in the Navy, they got married and had two children. Scott was extremely successful in getting jungle animals to agree to perform in the circus. Scott interviewed monkeys, chimpanzees, a rhinoceros, a hippopotamus, a black leopard, an elephant, a giraffe, a gorilla, a baboon, and many more who all agreed to perform in the circus. Three amazing Jungle Animals Circus performances showed off the extraordinary talent of these animals. The book ends with a P.S. by Scott's wife, Julie.