Tawny Lynn Brown is a six year old African - American girl who lives in the City of Lackawanna. She lives with her mom Tamara, her dad Randy, her brother Sam and her pet turtle Duke. She loves flowers and hates rainy days. She is a first grader at Roosevelt Elementary, where she attends class with her best friend Jessie Johnson who lives down the street with his mom and his pet cat named Zeus. Tawny got her test paper back from Math class and well she passed, but Jessie didn't do so well. He got a C+ and now he's afraid to tell his mom. The last time he didn't do well on a test his mom took...

Tawny Lynn Brown is a six year old African - American girl who lives in the City of Lackawanna with her mom Tamara, her dad Randy, her brother Sam and her pet turtle Duke. She loves flowers and hates rainy days. She's a first grader at Roosevelt Elementary, where she attends class with her best friend Jessie Johnson who lives down the street with his mom and his pet cat named Zeus. Today is Wednesday and there is a surprise added to the lunch menu today and everyone was curious. There was talk throughout the lunch room about a new soup. Imagine their surprise when they found out it was tomato...

Tawny Lynn Brown is a six year old African - American girl who lives in the City of Lackawanna. She lives with her mom Tamara, her dad Randy, her brother Sam and her pet turtle Duke. She loves flowers and hates rainy days. She is a first grader at Roosevelt Elementary, where she attends class with her best friend Jessie Johnson who lives down the street with his mom and his pet cat named Zeus. Tawny is not having a good day. She just found out that her school is closing. Ms. Ransal said, ""no more school"" and now Tawny is confused. What will happen to all the books and her friends? This is...

Tawny finds herself feeling sad because there have been two rainy days and there is no sign of it stopping. And to add to her misery, her best friend Jessie had an accident at the school soccer game where he hurt himself slipping in the rain after a downpour covered the field in hundreds of foot-sized puddles. Tawny had plans to go visit Jessie today, because he said that he was coming home from the hospital. She was so excited. He promised that she could sign his cast and everything. Only problem is it wont stop raining. Tawny hates when it rains and she is especially afraid of the...

Tawnys day is not turning out like she planned. Her friend Jessie is sick and wont be making it to school today, so her mom said that she can catch the bus all by herself. After waiting at the bus stop she finds out that waiting for the bus alone is not so fun. Especially when you get sticky gum on the bottom of your shoe from all the gum eaters. And when you find out that you may have missed your bus after all and will have to catch the late late bus. Tawny puts on a brave face and learns that sometimes being a big girl is not all what its cracked up to be. Will Tawny make it to school...

Giggle more with the Tawny PaPawny collection. Enjoy the series all over again in this special hardcover edition that will last and last throughout generations. Follow Tawny as she tackles rainy days, dream auditions, circles of fire, lice in tomato soup, surprise school carnivals, elephants on skates and yours truly Duke the Turtle Remember to Read Out Loud and always Dream Big The Tawny PaPawny collection includes all 11 books of the series #1: the No Good Miserable Low Down Rainy Day, the Late Late School Bus, the Nasty Cold Bug, the Messy Room, Helping Others Is Fun, Is It Sunday...

Tawny Lynn Brown is a six year old African - American girl who lives in the City of Lackawanna. She lives with her mom Tamara, her dad Randy, her brother Sam and her pet turtle Duke. She loves flowers and hates rainy days. She is a first grader at Roosevelt Elementary, where she attends class with her best friend Jessie Johnson who lives down the street with his mom and his pet cat named Zeus.

Tawny finally got her new bicycle. Its pink and white with squiggly lines and a banana seat, and its the bestest one. She wanted that bike and she wanted to ride it right away. Daddy has to put...

Tawny loved the playground. She loved the slides and she even loved the swings. She liked to swing high and swing low. She enjoyed her time in the playground on Saturday with her dad. She especially loved the new rock she chose for Dukes bowl on the way home. She had to get his bowl ready because tonight there was a show on the Disco channel all about turtles. Tawny needed to find a way to stay up late and still get up for church in the morning. Last week she tried to hide out under the covers in her room and woke up to the flashlight still signing in her face and Dukes bowl still...

So its Saturday again and Momma has a surprise activity planned for the day. Tawny, Sam and Duke are taken on a trip to the local soup kitchen. Momma says that they have to help serve and learn the importance of helping others so that they dont become selfish. As Tawny and her family take the short ride across town she finds out that there is a lot going on with other families outside of their own neighborhood and that some dont have a place to call home. While at the soup kitchen she meets Miss Dorothy, who is in charge of the kitchen and one who gave Tawny the best job ever. Tawny...