by Barb Langridge | Mar 21, 2011 | Picture Book
The American kestrel, “the smallest falcon found in North America,” is the star of this coming of age tale. High on a skyscraper in a large city a young kestrel clings to the ledge knowing he must be the first from his brood to take the leap and attempt to...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 21, 2011 | Picture Book
It’s Granny Pig’s birthday and her grandson knows exactly what he wants to send her…a giant hug. Will he draw a picture of himself hugging his Granny? No, he has a better idea. He’s going to hug the mailman and ask him to send the hug to...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 21, 2011 | Picture Book
What separates being grown up from not being grown up? Almost. Jack is almost grown up meaning he’s nearly six which makes him nearly as old as his brother. He’s almost a whole lot of other things too. He almost likes vegetables except for those beans,...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 21, 2011 | Science Fiction
New York City has been able to bounce back from many hardships, but it can’t seem to recover from Big Black, a terrorist attack which has sucked the life out of the city and its inhabitants. People on the street don’t seem to know or care who caused the massive...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 21, 2011 | Picture Book
If you have a reader who is also a looker and loves to find things in the pictures as in I Spy books by Walter Wick or the Where’s Waldo books by Handiford, here is a whole new twist on this entertaining activity. At first it looks pretty easy. Using one word...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 21, 2011 | Picture Book
Back in the late 1800’s a man named James Mooney collected folktales from some of the over 1400 Cherokee of North Carolina who survived the Trail of Tears and wrote them into a volume known as the Myths of the Cherokees. According to Joseph Bruchac, the Cherokee...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 20, 2011 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
In this colorful easy reading level graphic novel, Zoe has a great idea. She wants her robot to pretend to climb a mountain with her. But robots have a very hard time pretending and this Robot is no exception. He doesn’t feel the wind, he feels the fan. He...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 20, 2011 | Paranormal
A gorgeous new guy has shown up at Nightshade High, and he claims to be a fortune teller thanks to his Gypsy heritage. Even though Daisy is psychic, she is skeptical at first, but when a teacher who was the subject of one of his premonitions turns up dead, she starts...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 19, 2011 | Non-Fiction
The award-winning author of Ben Franklin’s Almanac and Our Eleanor has created an enthralling joint biography of our greatest president, Abraham Lincoln, and his complex wife—a scrapbook history that uses photographs, letters, engravings, and even cartoons, along with...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 18, 2011 | Picture Book
You are about to enter into a magical world and your doorway to this special place will be a man named Fred, a home in Brooklyn, New York, and three houses with “two white stories and one red story, and inside, thousands of tiny rooms made of wax.” Imagine...
