by Barb Langridge | May 27, 2009 | Picture Book
Long ago the world was filled with the wonders of Truffala Trees, Swo-mee Swans, Brown Bar-ba-loots and Humming Fishes. Our narrator, the Once-ler, is remembering them all and remembering how he saw the beauty of the Truffala Tree tufts and chopped them down to make...
by Barb Langridge | May 27, 2009 | Historical Fiction
“A novel of intense power and intrigue, Jane Eyre has dazzled generations of readers with its depiction of a woman’s quest for freedom. Having grown up an orphan in the home of her cruel aunt and at a harsh charity school, Jane Eyre becomes an independent...
by Barb Langridge | May 26, 2009 | Non-Fiction
In this autobiography Adeline Yen Mah describes her life growing up in China during the 1940s. Mah is blamed for her mother’s death in childbirth and when her father remarries soon after, she and her siblings are relegated to second class by their new...
by Barb Langridge | May 24, 2009 | Picture Book
Yertle the Turtle is the king of all the land that he can see. One day he realizes if he just climbs higher he’ll be able to rule over even more land and more turtles. So, he has his turtle subjects climb onto each other’s backs and build an enormous...
by Barb Langridge | May 24, 2009 | Historical Fiction
“‘Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; — the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!’ “Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities portrays a world on fire, split between Paris and London during the brutal and bloody events...
