by Barb Langridge | Aug 3, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks are mind-boggling evidence of a fifteenth-century scientific genius standing at the edge of the modern world, basing his ideas on observation and experimentation. This book will change children’s ideas of who Leonardo was and what it...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 2, 2011 | Picture Book
Ferdie doesn’t want to go to school, but go to school he must, and fortunately his imaginative older sister Viola paves the way. First she urges him to put on his rocket blaster boots, which enable him to leave the house. When he stalls again she convinces him to take...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 2, 2011 | Picture Book
Time to head back to school with this bestselling groovy Pete the Cat book! Pete the Cat is rocking in his school shoes. Pete discovers the library, the lunch room, the playground, and lots of other cool places at school. And no matter where he goes, Pete never stops...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 2, 2011 | Action / Adventure
This is a lively re-telling of the Greek myth, in which Pegasus, the flying horse, helps hero Bellerophon to defeat a fire-breathing monster. This is a new title in “Young Reading Series One”. Part of the Usborne Reading Programme, “Series One”...
by Joanne | Aug 2, 2011 | Fantasy
Exciting, action-packed, and thrilling, book two of the Kane Chronicles really delivers (book one is The Red Pyramid). If you haven’t picked up the first book, now is the time to pick up both titles. Rick Riordan has batted another one out of the park and scored...
by Joanne | Aug 2, 2011 | Picture Book
Seven-year-old Junior tells his moving story of being trapped for eight days after the 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.Asked how he survived, Junior replies, “in my mind, I played.”Imagination helped Junior to remain focused and hopeful even when his...
by Joanne | Aug 1, 2011 | Fantasy
There was a time when faerie and humans lived side by side in peace, but long ago old Lord Dunraven had made a law that forbid magical creatures from having any contact with humans. As a young fairy, Alida had enjoyed a charmed life as a fairy princess, but when the...
by Joanne | Jul 31, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
This is the sixth book in the Calvin Coconut series by Graham Salisbury.A new boy named Benny Obi, moves into the neighborhood and is placed in Calvin’s class. His appearance is much different than the other kids. He always wears dark mirrored sunglasses and is always...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 30, 2011 | Fantasy
The sixth book in the internationally bestselling Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage, featuring the funny and fantastic adventures of a wizard apprentice and his quest to become an ExtraOrdinary Wizard. New York Times Bestselling Series “A memorable, edge-of-the-seat...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 30, 2011 | Picture Book
A blue whale is longer than thirty dogs lined up nose to tail. Its tongue weighs as much as four hundred cats. Blue whales make terrible pets….Just ask Billy Twitters.–from the publisher 48 pages 978-0786849581 Ages...
