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...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 22, 2011 | Non-Fiction
Public spaces are places for boys and girls, teens and adults to hang out and socialize without anyone telling them to move along. Learn how to find, create, design, defend and share a public space. This book is divided into four sections: What is public space?...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 21, 2011 | Picture Book
The cast of Where Is the Apple Pie returns in this romp and it all begins as a dripping wet pig trots up to talk to his friend Goat with a basket and a bouquet of flowers in his hands. Goat asks him how he got so wet…was he caught in the rain while out picking...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 21, 2011 | Picture Book
What would it be like to be a child in Kenya? When you wake up do you eat scrambled eggs and make your bed and brush your teeth? Open this book and enter a very different world. It’s a day of herding cows and entering your mother’s smoky hut to eat maize...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 21, 2011 | Picture Book
When Baby Rooster wakes up in the morning it is his job to wake everybody up but there is a problem. He doesn’t know what to say. Are there magic words that everyone will understand? He begins to visit friends on the farm to ask for help. Hello Pigs he says....
by Barb Langridge | Mar 21, 2011 | Science Fiction
Perfect children through science! But their descendants die young, always. Wealthy, long-lived first-generation families use teenage girls to bear children for them, in case research finds a cure. Before the girls die at 20, the boys at 25… The Gatherers prowl the...
