by Joanne | Aug 12, 2011 | Picture Book
Heritage is a treasure passed from generation to generation. Musical heritage is no different in this story of a young man who learned that “passing the music down” provided him an opportunity to learn from a master and develop a relationship that transcended music....
by Barb Langridge | Aug 11, 2011 | Historical Fiction
On their way to a Nazi death camp, Zelda and Felix decide to jump off the train and escape into the woods. Although technically not related to Felix, six-year-old Zelda has become part of his family and he feels the need to protect her. He devises a plan that involves...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 11, 2011 | Non-Fiction
As the world now knows, Barack Obama has made history as our first African-American president. With black-and-white illustrations throughout, this biography is perfect for primary graders looking for a longer, fuller life story than is found in the author’s...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 11, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was soon organizing black people across the country in support of the right to vote, desegregation, and other basic civil rights. Maintaining nonviolent and peaceful tactics...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 11, 2011 | Picture Book
Can you stretch to the ceiling? Can you stretch to the floor? You can stretch with a whisper, you can stretch with a roar! Doreen Cronin and Scott Menchin give new meaning to the yoga pose downward facing dog as publishing’s most energetic pooch explores the many,...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 10, 2011 | Non-Fiction
On the night before Halloween, 1938, that’s what people all over the country heard coming over their radios — an announcement that a glowing yellow spacecraft had crashed in New Jersey. When the announcer went on to describe an alien covered in tentacles...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 9, 2011 | Non-Fiction
One day Greg Mortenson set out to climb K2 – the world’s second highest mountain – in honour of his younger sister, but when another member of his group fell ill, they turned around and Greg became lost in the mountains of Pakistan. He wandered into...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 9, 2011 | Picture Book
Ahhhh…the power and wonder of a child’s imagination as it comes to life with the glimpse of a broken branch on a nearby tree. A young pig gathers that branch and in the hands and mind of the pig, the branch transforms into the fishing rod that leads to...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 9, 2011 | Non-Fiction
From acclaimed science writer Sandra Markle comes a fascinating survival story about the wild horses of Sable Island. During a shipwreck, a young stallion leads a band of horses to safety on an arc of golden land-Sable Island, off the coast of Nova Scotia. In...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 9, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Most American children know the story of Thanksgiving told from the perspective of the Pilgrims who arrived in the new land in 1620. Few know the same story from the perspective of the Native Americans who were living on this “new land” and whose culture...
