by Barb Langridge | Mar 4, 2011 | Picture Book
Molly and Ben are two kids who share a house, a yard, a stoop and a friendship. They live with their respective families in the same house just on different floors and they enjoy playing with each other, wearing the same shirts, and making plans together. The plan...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 4, 2011 | Picture Book
Everything begins somewhere and this alphabet book with a large bold upper case letter on each page, introduces children to alphabet and words that are going to become something special. “A is for seed,” begins the pattern and it doesn’t make sense...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 4, 2011 | Sports
“Look, Mick,” he said, “you’re going to find out from somebody in the gym, so you might as well find out from me. Those supplements you’re taking? They might get you a little bigger, but just a little. If you’re after serious results, there’s other stuff that produces...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 3, 2011 | Picture Book
Jamaica loves to draw and today in class her teacher, Mrs. Wirth, wants everyone to make a fall picture. Jamaica closes her eyes to “think first, and then draw” just as she’s been taught. Then, Mrs. Wirth asks Jamaica to share her markers with...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 3, 2011 | Picture Book
Even as a young mite, a termite that is, Roberto beat to his own drummer. He didn’t eat his food…the maple, the pine…he played with it. Roberto dreamed of becoming an architect. But all the termites around him just laugh and tell him to look at being...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 3, 2011 | Picture Book
You have to give to get is the motto of the principal of Lynnhurst Elementary School, Mr. Tanen. As the story begins, we watch Mr. Tanen explore his school at the end of winter vacation and just before everyone else will be arriving to get back in the swing of things....
by Barb Langridge | Mar 3, 2011 | Picture Book
With a sneeze and a slop and a wobble and a crash, a pair of wonderful warthogs struggles to pull together their dinner party. Over goes the birdcage and there goes teddy into the pudding as the warthogs watch in stunned amazement and collapse into a fit of giggles....
by Barb Langridge | Mar 3, 2011 | Picture Book
This is the year when Mr. McGreeley is finally going to plant a garden. So he gathers his seed, hoes his rows and waits. To his great delight, sure enough, up come the green sprouts. But to his frustration, tippy, tippy, pat, here come three bunnies and they are just...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 3, 2011 | Picture Book
Luigi was born a bantam rooster with the heart of an opera star. Every morning as the sun rises and all the other roosters start with the cook a doodle doo stuff, Luigi waxes operatic with his variations on the theme….”Cock ala Kook ala Kick ala Choo he...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 3, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
The summer before eighth grade for Alice McKinley is traumatic. She is phobic about getting any deeper in the pool or at the beach than her waist – water scares her, but no one else knows. That the normal hangout for many of her friends is at Mark...
