by Barb Langridge | May 5, 2011 | Picture Book
A very Seuss-like young ‘un has been caught in the act painting the whole house from top to bottom, from floor to ceiling and from curtains to doors. Oh, you should have heard the mama holler. “Ya Ain’t A-Gonna Paint No More.” But this artful...
by Barb Langridge | May 5, 2011 | Picture Book
Mama Duck is out for a walk followed obediently by her five little ducklings. Do like a duck does. Everything Mama does her ducklings copy to a faretheewell. They waddle, they hop and they flop, flop, flop. With a rhythmic, rhyming narrative and illustrations big...
by Barb Langridge | May 5, 2011 | Picture Book
One morning Webster J. Duck’s mother lays a pale blue egg in her nest. What is that, wonders Webster who has never seen an egg before. The whole mystery of eggs and ducks is explained to him by his Aunt including the fact that Webster himself arrived in just...
by Barb Langridge | May 5, 2011 | Non-Fiction
“What good shall I do today?” How Ben Franklin answered that question — through his work as a writer, printer, statesman, and inventor — forever established him as one of America’s greatest figures. On one day in 1729 he published the...
by Barb Langridge | May 5, 2011 | Non-Fiction
All his life, Charles Darwin hated controversy. Yet he takes his place among the Giants of Science for what remains an immensely controversial subject: the theory of evolution. Darwin began piecing together his explanation for how all living things change or adapt...
by Barb Langridge | May 5, 2011 | Picture Book
2007 Geisel Honor Award Winner A bunny meets a plain old empty cardboard box and suddenly the world comes alive with possibilities and excitement. Everyone has seen what happens when a child discovers a cardboard box..the bigger the better. The imagination’s...
by Barb Langridge | May 5, 2011 | Picture Book
Reverend Knight can’t understand why his twelve sons’ sneakers are torn to threads each and every morning, and the boys aren’t talking. They know their all-night dancing wouldn’t fit with their father’s image in the community. Maybe...
by Barb Langridge | May 5, 2011 | Picture Book
Warm illustrations spice up this rhythmical ode to the joys of family and food — full, full, full of pleasures. For the youngest member of an exuberant extended family, Sunday dinner at Grannie’s can be full indeed – full of hugs and kisses, full of tasty...
by Barb Langridge | May 4, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Khosi wants to do well in school, keep her family safe, escape AIDS, “the disease of these times” in South Africa. Life can be so confusing at 14, as she prays to the great God-in-the-sky at the church and also honors her ancestors with traditional ceremonies, uses...
by Barb Langridge | May 4, 2011 | Science Fiction
Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grown dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a...
