by Barb Langridge | Dec 27, 2011 | Non-Fiction
“Saturday night I was downtown, Working for the FBI.” — A. Clarke, R. Cook, R. Greenaway, “Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress” “FBI agents mastered the art of the ‘black-bag job,’ which meant breaking into the office of a...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 27, 2011 | Picture Book
A little kitten snuggles up in bed with his stuffed animals and a beloved book, which he reads until he falls asleep. However, when the kitty awakens, the book is nowhere to be found! First confused, then worried, then terrified, he imagines all kinds of horrific...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 26, 2011 | Picture Book
When Michael’s class learns about the Ten Commandments, the teacher begins a discussion on the importance of rules. This does not sit well with the little boy: he believes school would be more fun if nobody had to follow regulations. The teacher acquiesces to his...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 26, 2011 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
An exciting graphic novel about a 14 year old boy and his two sisters gives a taste of the drama and courage of the French Resistance to Nazi occupation in World War II. As the youngest member of their village resistance network, Paul can generally slip past the Nazis...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 26, 2011 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
Here’s fun comic adventure with the trusty hardworking robots of Robot City helping solve the crime side-by-side with their human counterparts aboard the Robot City Express train as it hurtles towards a record-breaking trans-continental speed record. Golly, but these...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 26, 2011 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
Golly! This tongue in cheek comic adventure begins with the sinking of the Colossus (read Titanic) along with two Indestructible Robots from Robot City. Years later they resurface…one into the hands of good, and one into the hands of evil Mr. Furniss. Will Sarah...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 26, 2011 | Fantasy
Teagan Wylltson’s whole life, she and her little brother Aidan have been regaled with the folk talks that their Irish Traveler mother spins. Their house is filled with paintings of goblins and cat-sidhe and Ginny Greenteeth and a whole host of others, but she is...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 26, 2011 | Picture Book
Beauty. Nature. Wonder all around us. Celebration. The words of St. Francis of Assisi have been “reimagined” for our children in an unexpected book that offers a chance to sit still and appreciate the wonderful world that surrounds us every minute of every...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 26, 2011 | Picture Book
High in a mango tree Anna Hibiscus is watching as her day begins and her family starts its morning routine. All the aunts and uncles and cousins and Grandmother and Grandfather all have their places and their tasks and having them all around her makes Anna Hibiscus...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 26, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Need a book that offers a young reader a thrill ride? How about a walk through the powerful, exciting and wonderfully useful world of the EMT? The story, told in simple text and informative photographs, begins with a child who has fallen off his bicycle and needs some...
