by Barb Langridge | Feb 28, 2011 | Picture Book
Lilly is a mouse of big plans. She is going to be a teacher when she grows up. A huge part of the reason for her career aspirations is her teacher, Mr. Slinger. Lilly really, really likes Mr. Slinger who is one cool guy. One day Lilly goes shopping with her...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 28, 2011 | Picture Book
Oh what a wonderful day “in the Bronx, in the land of Third Avenue, in the Kingdom of New York City.” Meet seven year old Iris who has a big sister who is a fortune teller, a mother who is always busy and a father who is named Papi the Clever because he...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 26, 2011 | Picture Book
It’s Saturday morning and Stella Louella has lost her library book. Where can it be? She looks high and low and in between. They can’t have a lost library book. What will the librarian, Mrs. Graham, say? Stella’s father joins in the hunt. Try to...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 26, 2011 | Picture Book
Three monks are wandering along a path in the mountains on a journey when one asks the other what makes someone happy. They decide to visit a village to find out but when they arrive and begin knocking on the doors of the houses no one will answer and greet them. The...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 26, 2011 | Picture Book
It is not a good day for anyone on Abbott Street today. It is a hot, hot day and Kishi and Renee are not speaking to each other. They are mad so this is a best friends breaking up day. All the neighbors notice that the girls are not playing together the way they...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 26, 2011 | Picture Book
A young Nbedele girl of South Africa is greeting us and welcoming us to her world and introducing us to her best friend, a chicken. Chickens are important because you can use a chicken feather to paint your house brightly colored patterns. Chickens are important...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 26, 2011 | Picture Book
Green eyed, blue eyed, amber eyed children with innocent and engaging smiles, peer out at us from their places on these pages as we explore the wonder of all the shades that black can be. This is a celebration of blackness whether it’s a creamy vanilla shade or...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 26, 2011 | Picture Book
Elmer is a duck who likes to paint pictures and tidy his room and cook. He doesn’t want to play sports or build forts. His mother encourages him to be his special self but his father wants him to be like the other boy ducks. Papa Duck tells his son it’s...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 26, 2011 | Picture Book
Say goodbye to the little red hen of yore and a big hello to the bunny slipper sporting chicken of today. After a relaxing cup of chickweed tea, our red hen gets hungry and decides to make a yummy pizza. But she doesn’t have a pizza pan. Someone will have to go...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 26, 2011 | Fiction
Welcome to the world of Saint Bartholomew’s where approximately two hundred and nineteen mice are thriving in an orderly, fully fed community led by the stalwart Mouse Mistress, Hildegarde. In this world our Mouse Mistress has the job of ensuring that the mice...
