by Barb Langridge | Apr 30, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Growing up in Upstate New York, Amy Vedder loved to be outdoors swimming and sailing and exploring. As she got older, she tried basketball, softball and cheerleading and graduated from high school at the top of her class. Where would her path lead her? Which of her...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 30, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Have you met Kismet, Cog, Leonardo or Hannibal yet? Not that Leonardo…. no, I’m talking about the robot named Leonardo. People think of robots as being entities designed to do jobs for human beings but roboticist Cynthia Breazeal designs robots to...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 29, 2011 | Fantasy
Bryn and her bird Stella can sense something alive in the ancient egg. Why was it with the soil samples sent from her mom’s Alaska research site after her disappearance. Everyone in her family can “ken” – sense the minds of birds – and their own bird companion chooses...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 29, 2011 | Picture Book
Okay, get ready to answer some very important questions. Let’s begin with Who Hops? “Frogs hop and rabbits hop.” Using bright, bold colors and larger than life animal images, we are very comfortable and reassured that we do know the answers…...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 29, 2011 | Picture Book
Sassy is a long-legged girl who always has something to say. She wants to be a ballerina more than anything, but she worries that her too-large feet, too-long legs, and even her big mouth will keep her from her dream. When a famous director comes to visit her class,...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 29, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Barbara Park’s #1 New York Times bestselling chapter book series, Junie B. Jones, has been keeping kids laughing—and reading—for more than twenty-five years. Over 65 million copies sold! Meet the World’s Funniest Kindergartner—Junie B. Jones! That meanie Jim has...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 28, 2011 | Westerns
As with her first novel, which won the 2009 Spur Award for best first novel, this is a POD (print on demand) book. Although a stand-alone novel with the author’s providing sufficient review and background of prior events, this could be called a sequel thus the reader...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 28, 2011 | Picture Book
Have you ever tried to imagine what it would be like to be blind? This book is designed to give you an experience of seeing color only by touch. Poetic descriptions offer an image for the mind’s eye and the words are done in Braille on each page along with the...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 28, 2011 | Picture Book
Lila and her family live in a village in Kenya where the sun is shining and shining and shining and the rain does not come. This drought is making life very hard for the villagers because not only do they have no water to drink but their animals and their crops have...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 28, 2011 | Picture Book
It’s a very busy day on the farm. Everyone is busy doing little jobs and Tad, a small mouse, wants to join in and help. But every animals he visits tells him the same thing…. no, you’re too small. He can’t help cow paint the wall and he...
