by Barb Langridge | Dec 26, 2011 | Non-Fiction
If you’re looking for a simple series to introduce science to young readers, here’s a great place to start. This is the “My First Discovery” series and is part of My First Science Library. Using vivid imagination grabbing photographs, we...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 24, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
It’s finally summer and Amber Brown is going to London to visit her aunt Pam and then to Paris to visit with her father. She is one excited kid before she goes. And one itchy kid when she arrives. Mosquito bites, she thinks. Chicken pox, she finds out. Is her...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 24, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Only Amber Brown can handle going to a new grade without her best friend with such honesty, humor, and heart. Amber Brown isn’t entirely ready for fourth grade. She has her pens, pencils, new clothes, and new shoes. But the one thing she doesn’t have is...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 24, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Tomie has his own diary with a lock and a key – now he can write down all his secrets and no one will be able to read them. All through the year, exciting things happen and Tomie writes about them in his diary. Sledding down the steep hill on his new Junior...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 24, 2011 | Picture Book
The Erie Canal comes to life in this classic children’s book, illustrated by award winning artist Peter Spier, to the words of the familiar folk song, “Low Bridge, Everybody down.” Enjoy reading and singing this song with your children. Teachers use...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 24, 2011 | Picture Book
In five brief episodes two hippos confirm their friendship: “The Fibber,” “The Experiment,” “The Picnic,” “The Scary Movie!,” and “The Secret Club.”—from the publisher 48 pages 978-0395280065 Ages 5-8 Keywords: ...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 24, 2011 | Fiction
The reader meets a rat family that vacations at a dude ranch, a pig who takes lessons in table manners, a mouse who keeps house for a tomcat, and a buzzard who leaves his money to the Society for Stray Cats–or does he?—from the publisher 80 pages ...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 24, 2011 | Historical Fiction
Edwidge Danticat, the award-winning, best-selling author of THE FARMING OF BONES and KRIK? KRAK! offers a powerful addition to The Royal Diaries series with the story of Haiti’s heroic queen Anacaona. With her signature narrative grace, Edwidge Danticat brings...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 23, 2011 | Picture Book
In The Berenstain Bears and The Joy of Giving Brother and Sister Bear can’t wait for Christmas and all the presents they’ll open. But during the Christmas Eve pageant, something special happens! The Bear cubs learn a very valuable lesson about the joy of giving to...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 23, 2011 | Picture Book
Trolls sure know how to make trouble, but Treva is too smart and wily to fall for their tricks! Treva’s trouble with trolls begins when she climbs Mount Baldy with her dog Tuffi. The trolls who live there long for a dog, and they try to kidnap him. But Treva is...
