by Barb Langridge | Jan 15, 2022 | Picture Book
Explore the connections found in nature in this simply stunning picture book that explores the idea of change, both big and small. This sky is the same sky that was blue, and now is spilling down in drips and drops… until rainclouds pass… Over the course of one day, a...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 15, 2022 | Picture Book
Stunningly illustrated by #1 New York Times bestselling artist Vashti Harrison, Hello, Star (written by Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic) is an inspiring story about a love of science and the importance of empathy. When a young girl learns that a bright light in the sky is...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 15, 2022 | Picture Book
Where do poems come from? This beautiful picture book about a young aspiring poet and his grandfather shows that the answer lies all around us–if we take the time to look. After Kiyoshi watches his grandfather, Eto, compose his delicate haiku, he wonders out...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 15, 2022 | Picture Book
For every child who has ever felt that grown-ups have all the fun, here is a vicarious chance to slip behind the office door—and play with all the tempting things that are off-limits. Dad’s office is off-limits—which only makes it more intriguing to his curious young...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 15, 2022 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
2022 Newbery Honor A heartbreakingly hopeful novel in verse about an Indian American girl whose life is turned upside down when her mother is diagnosed with leukemia. Reha feels torn between two worlds: school, where she’s the only Indian American student, and home,...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 14, 2022 | Non-Fiction
An innovative and joyful picture book biography that celebrates the life and achievements of TV legend, pioneer, and activist Betty White. Betty White is a legend and icon (but you already knew that). In her eighty-year career, she has starred on some of the most...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 14, 2022 | Picture Book
Confident, empowered girls are celebrated in this follow-up to Happy Hair, a flower-filled, nature-loving, read-together picture book that encourages growth and positivity, Lovely and wise, shine at sunrise! I am growing each day! Beautiful Black and Brown girls with...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 14, 2022 | Picture Book
Author Muợn Thị Văn and Stonewall Book Award-winning artist Jessica Love detail all the big and small reasons why we love the people we do within a call-and-response picture book that features families across the spectrum. “I love you because you tell the best...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 14, 2022 | Historical Fiction
Dana Schwartz’s Anatomy: A Love Story is a gothic tale full of mystery and romance. Hazel Sinnett is a lady who wants to be a surgeon more than she wants to marry. Jack Currer is a resurrection man who’s just trying to survive in a city where it’s too easy to die....
by Barb Langridge | Jan 14, 2022 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Haydu’s (Ever Cursed) powerfully told verse novel centers toxic familial legacies and women’s experiences with stereotyping and the male gaze via the lens of a single family’s tradition. On her 16th birthday, presumed-white social media influencer Mimi Dovewick’s...
