🎯 Where Should I Start?
All Book Series by Ashley Bryan
The Ox of the Wonderful Horns and Other African Folktales
Series opener · book 1 of 5 · published 1971
The Lion and the Ostrich Chicks and Other African Tales
Book 2 of 5 · published 1986
Beautiful Blackbird and Other Stories
Latest in the series · book 5 of 5 · published 2004
The Story Of Valentine's Day
Series opener · book 1 of 42 · published 1965 Anthology · Clyde Robert Bulla
The Folks in the Valley
Book 2 of 42 · published 1970 Anthology · Stefano Vitale,Jim Aylesworth
What You Know First
Book 3 of 42 · published 1970 Anthology · Patricia MacLachlan
How Little Porcupine Played Christmas
Book 4 of 42 · published 1982 Anthology · Joseph Slate
Good Books, Good Times!
Book 7 of 42 · published 1990 Anthology · Lee Bennett Hopkins
Doctor De Soto Goes to Africa
Book 9 of 42 · published 1992 Anthology · William Steig
Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea
Book 14 of 42 · published 1993 Anthology · Joyce Carol Thomas
The Gods and Goddesses of Olympus
Book 15 of 42 · published 1994 Anthology · Aliki
Good Rhymes, Good Times
Book 16 of 42 · published 1995 Anthology · Lee Bennett Hopkins
The Story of Christmas
Book 17 of 42 · published 1995 Anthology · Barbara Cooney
Now I Will Never Leave the Dinner Table
Book 20 of 42 · published 1996 Anthology · Patricia Marx,Jane Read Martin
The Story of Kwanzaa
Book 24 of 42 · published 1996 Anthology · Donna L. Washington
For the Love of the Game
Book 26 of 42 · published 1997 Anthology · Eloise Greenfield
Detective Donut and the Wild Goose Chase
Book 27 of 42 · published 1997 Anthology · Bruce Whatley,Rosie Smith
I Have Heard of a Land
Book 32 of 42 · published 1998 Anthology · Joyce Carol Thomas
William Shakespeare And The Globe
Book 34 of 42 · published 1999 Anthology · Aliki
You're Just What I Need
Latest in the series · book 42 of 42 · published 2019 Anthology · Ruth Krauss
Lion and the ostrich chicks, and other African folk tales
Book 8 of 14 · published 1986
Walk Together Children, Black American Spirituals, Volume One
Book 7 of 14 · published 2002
Ashley Bryan's Beautiful Blackbird and Other Folktales
Book 8 of 14 · published 2004
I'm Going to Sing, Black American Spirituals, Volume Two
Book 11 of 14 · published 2012
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Ashley Bryan?
Ashley Bryan has 82 books catalogued in this guide spanning 1965–2025, across 1 named series.
Which Ashley Bryan series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Trophy Picture series, the earliest of Ashley Bryan's multi-book series: it opens with The Story Of Valentine's Day (1965) and runs to 42 books across 1965–2019, ending with You're Just What I Need (2019).
How many books has Ashley Bryan written?
Ashley Bryan has 82 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1965 and 2025. 42 of them belong to 1 named series — the largest being the Trophy Picture series with 42 books — and 40 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Ashley Bryan's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Ashley Bryan's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Trophy Picture (1965–2019, 42 books).
How are Ashley Bryan's books organised into series?
This guide splits Ashley Bryan's 82 books into 1 named series and 40 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Trophy Picture (42 books, 1965–2019).