by Barb Langridge | Mar 22, 2011 | Picture Book
If you are looking for a book that is guaranteed to have your children screaming with laughter, look no more. We begin with a two page spread revealing a house clearly set in China with its curved roofs occupying the left page and a pair of red underpants floating...
by Mike Costanzo | Mar 22, 2011 | Picture Book
How important it is to figure out who you are and how you are going to be heard in this world. This wonderful little fable is about a clever stick who ventures forth to explore and finds to its sorrow that it has no voice to add to the world. It cannot compliment the...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 22, 2011 | Picture Book
A young Taiwanese girl is being sent to the store to buy eggs so the family can have fried rice for dinner. It’s an ordinary task in an ordinary day that suddenly turns extraordinary through the eyes of this child who is curious about and eager to celebrate each...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 22, 2011 | Picture Book
Anna, daughter of biracial parents, comes to her father with a sad face and shares with him that she does not like how she looks. She wants to look more like her father, a man with a “pale face.” She is not happy to have brown skin and she is not happy to...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 22, 2011 | Picture Book
Do you ever stop and look at the roadways in your community and wonder what it looked like a hundred years ago, a thousand years ago, a million years ago? Do you wonder about all the lives that have been lived and the stories that have been created? This beautiful...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 22, 2011 | Picture Book
Originally published in India, this is a charming, bright story of a little dog named Raja who loves red and if you love something you must chew it. Chewing up all the red things in the house earns Raja a walk in the park where he usually plays ball with his friend,...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 22, 2011 | Picture Book
This book came to me as a Big Book so I’m seeing the wonder of it in super-sized illustrations which is a great way to share this fun adventure. Handa, a member of the Luo tribe in southwest Kenya, is heading away from the grass huts of her village. She is going...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 22, 2011 | Picture Book
Avast me hearties. Here’s a fun swashbuckler with a pair of pirates facing off against each other on the high seas. Bad Bart, better known as the “biggest, burliest pirate this side of the Atlantic” is about to meet Mean Mo, better known as the...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 22, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Janie loved the idea of moving to a farm when she was 10, but in high school it’s not so cool. Goat manure on her shoe, hay stuck in her hair that awful first week of school – now the kids call her “Farm Girl” and treat her like she’s invisible. Except Sarah, the only...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 22, 2011 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
This debut graphic novel by cartoonist and illustrator Fiona Smyth is set in the future in a world where no new babies are being born; the youngest children are fifteen and the aged population of the “oldies” is dying out. With no new citizens, the world...
