by Barb Langridge | Apr 7, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Can a tropical storm ruin Calvin’s plans for his sister’s seventh birthday party? Calvin has the best ideas ever to surprise his sister Darci for her birthday, but a huge storm is approaching and the rain is causing some major problems for the people on the island....
by Barb Langridge | Apr 7, 2011 | Picture Book
A black cat with a patch over one eye shares a house and a home with his very good friends, Mouse and Dog. Mouse cooks fondue for every meal and knows every cheese in town. Dog is the gardener and knows how to plant a good bone. Cat is the housekeeper and does his...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 7, 2011 | Picture Book
Down in the sand of the desert of the American Southwest waits the spadefoot toad. She’s listening and she’s waiting for a very special sound. The book opens with a beautiful illustration of the toad distinctly embedded in the grains of sand and she has...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 6, 2011 | Picture Book
Bulldog wakes up in the morning ready for a big day. He begins by baking a batch of cookies and then heads out to hunt for a job. The help wanted sign lists firefighter, window washer, sign painter and bookseller so Bulldog has lots of possibilities to try and try he...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 6, 2011 | Poetry
So, let’s talk manners here….do you have good manners? Should you? Let us discuss. How about we begin at the dinner table. “What will happen to you if you talk while you chew?” Ah yes the mouth open to reveal chewed food manner issue. Sound...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 6, 2011 | Non-Fiction
What is dust? Where does dust come from? When you look at the dust on your coffee table, can you imagine where its been? Did you know that dust is made when zebras roll in the dirt? Did you know dust comes out of the ocean? Do you know how old your dust might be?...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 6, 2011 | Historical Fiction
The fiction genre “Sea Stories” may be the oldest genre traced back to Homer’s Odyssey and continued under full sail with Cooper, Dana’s Two Years Before The Mast, Marryat’s Midshipman Easy (1836), Melville, London and Conrad to the...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 6, 2011 | Picture Book
Ruthie is a young fox who loves to collect teeny tiny things. She has teeny tiny dolls and teeny tiny tea sets and even teeny tiny dinosaurs and trains and teddy bears. Everywhere she goes she finds more teeny tiny things. One day at recess Ruthie is having a...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 6, 2011 | Fiction
As if being a high school student is hard enough…Charlotte has lived with the paranormal all her life. Her parents are famous (infamous) for being paranormal researchers, but in the “Ghost Hunters” tradition of debunking the events rather than blind...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 5, 2011 | Paranormal
Sunsets brought the visions to Amelia, unasked for. She’d come to Baltimore to finish school and perhaps find a husband, not to capture visions of futures good or bad. Amelia’s never had a friend her own age or traveled away from her tiny Maine town, so she has much...
