by Barb Langridge | Apr 24, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
In this school, the gay kids and the straight kids all get along just fine, the quarterback is a cross-dresser, and the cheerleaders ride Harleys– yet the road to true love is still a strange and winding path, as Paul discovers when he meets the boy of his...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 24, 2011 | Picture Book
Bounce a ball right off your hands. Bounce it off your toes. Try to bounce a beach ball on the tip of your nose! Doreen Cronin and Scott Menchin, who had toddlers all over America jiggling with Wiggle, invite them now to hop, leap, pounce, and bounce to their...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 23, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
“What would Spock do?” is the question as 7th grade begins and Marley faces the same bullies, the same invisibility in the halls, the same loneliness. Luckily, he has his buddies in A/V Club and their eternal argument over Star Trek versus Star Wars, and his home in...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 23, 2011 | Historical Fiction
In the 1930’s Oklahoma was a Dust Bowl and struggling families had to pick up all their worldly possessions and strike out to begin their lives again. Told from a child’s point of view this is the story of one determined family who sets off in their old...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 23, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Just what is a contraction anyway? Join this band of wacky feline characters riding unicycles, wielding every tool in the toolbox, and knitting away with smugly satisfied smiling faces and head off to explore the world of the apostrophe. This is a highly comedic...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 22, 2011 | Suspense / Thriller / Horror
Lizzie is sure this summer will be awful – the Canadian gold rush country, all lakes and wilderness, was the kids’ special place with their grandmother, so why did Mom suddenly want to leave her law office and bring their new stepdad here for the summer? Gran’s...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 22, 2011 | Picture Book
Winner of a Caldecott Honor A shy Japanese boy having difficulty adjusting to school is misjudged by his classmates. Chibi has been an outcast since that frightening first day of school when he hid under the schoolhouse. Afraid of the teacher and unable to make any...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 22, 2011 | Picture Book
In this reinvention of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, images by Caldecott medalist Ed Young and new text by Eleanor Coerr come together to inspire children of all ages. In her novel Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Eleanor Coerr told the moving story of...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 22, 2011 | Picture Book
From Kate and Jim McMullan, the popular creators of I Stink! and I’m Dirty!—now a streaming animated series—comes a hilarious new picture book about one BAD dino who has just one thing on his mind: dinner. Who’s big? Who’s bad? And who’s hungry? T-Rex, that’s...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 22, 2011 | Picture Book
What simpler way could there be to express to children the beauty and the harmony in the world around them than through the lyrics of this song by George David Weiss and Bob Thiele, made famous by the great Louis Armstrong? And what better visual accompaniment than...
