Bonnie J. Johnson
Bonnie J. Johnson earned her PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She teaches classes in the School of Education at St. John's University in New York City. Dr. Johnson was a public-school classroom teacher for fourteen years. She was the recipient of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Distinguished Teacher of Teachers Award and was named an Eminent Literacy Scholar by The e-Journal of Literacy and Social Responsibility. Dr. Johnson is the author, coauthor, editor of nine books, numerous book chapters and journal articles, and has coauthored more than two hundred instructional texts for elementary, middle school, and adult learners.
Books by Bonnie J. Johnson
Meet Ogden Oink, a fun-loving, adventurous, likeable piglet.
He dresses and speaks as humans do, gets into more than his fair share of difficulties because he interprets figurative expressions literally, and he does not understand various meanings of polysemous (i.e., multiple-meaning) words.
A studious-looking, somewhat didactic bird appears throughout near the edges of the pages to add even more figurative language to the story. The "language confusion" humor will get young readers thinking about language-and laughing, too.