by Barb Langridge | Apr 4, 2025 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
This funny, empowering graphic novel from rising star Ursula Murray Husted is a gorgeously illustrated glimpse into the forgotten history of Renaissance Italy, following an ambitious young girl’s quest to become an apprentice to the famous Sandro Botticelli. ...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 4, 2025 | Non-Fiction
From the popular Lost Women of Science podcast, comes an empowering collection that recognizes ten trailblazing female scientists whose lives and works have been lost to history…until now. Uncover the truth behind some of the world’s greatest...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 4, 2025 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
The Okay Witch meets Hooky in this utterly charming and timeless middle grade graphic novel about a young witch who struggles to fit in! In her town full of witches, Jazzy’s always been a little bit different. She’s not excited about magic. She forgets the steps to...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 4, 2025 | Non-Fiction
From forgotten innovators like Anna M. Mangin to well-known inventors like James West, this picture book is a celebration of Black history and inventors with a unique counting rhyme One heater keeps a family warm / Sheltered from the winter storm. Two phones bridge a...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 4, 2025 | Picture Book
For fans of Grumpy Monkey and The Pout-Pout Fish comes the heroic tale of one dog’s journey to cope with life’s inconveniences and all its . . . accessories Joan’s life is wonderful, wild, and grand— running and playing as much as she can! Days full of...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 4, 2025 | Picture Book
From the creators of This Is How We Play is a new jubilant, inclusive, luminously illustrated picture book that celebrates all the ways we communicate with each other We sign, write, clap! We tap, stim, scream! So many ways to talk and joke, play and learn and...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 4, 2025 | Picture Book
In this lyrical picture book about the importance of caring for our Earth, a child and her father wish for a brighter, greener future for the parched land around their home. When a girl finds a horned toad among the rain-starved squash, tomatoes, and poblanos on her...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 4, 2025 | Picture Book
A tender and vulnerable exploration of love and loss that follows two boys as they take their first trip back to the lake without their father, from debut author-illustrator Angie Kang. Today, Brother is taking me up to swim in the lake like Father used to. I want to...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 3, 2025 | Poetry
dear Knucklehead, perhaps you are like me: always figuring out if your soul and your skin are thick enough to protect your body from sticky stones thrown from the mouths of those who know that spoken words have the power to spit out freedom and break-in bones. While...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 3, 2025 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Oregon Book Award–winning author Waka T. Brown hits a home run in this middle grade novel about a baseball-obsessed twelve-year-old who moves to Oregon to help his grandfather—an elusive old man with a shrouded past—but ends up learning unexpected truths about his...
