by Barb Langridge | Feb 26, 2011 | Picture Book
Today is a day to imagine what it would be like to live a different way and not be you! What if you could be a bee or a crocodile? Maybe a butterfly or a rattlesnake? Your world could be the sky or the river or a tall tree. You could try all kinds of different animals...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 26, 2011 | Picture Book
It’s a bad day when a troop of soldiers comes marching toward the town of San Miguel. The mayor gets everyone together and they make a plan because they all know that those soldiers will take every morsel of food they own and leave them with barely a crumb by...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 26, 2011 | Non-Fiction
This charming, informative book published by the Sierra Club is a great tool for starting a garden with young children. What better way to tantalize them than to teach them to grow vegetables that will look like a rainbow. We begin with a list of the names and...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 26, 2011 | Picture Book
Paul Stickland has moved on from the world of dinosaurs ( DInosaur Stomp) and moved into the world of bugs. Open the book and an enormous pink bug with blue polka dots is sitting there looking curiously at a little blue bug with purple spots and great big eyes. BIg...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 26, 2011 | Picture Book
Chinese New Year’s Eve and the Chang family is following the hallowed traditions to honor the Emperor of Heaven. It’s time to make the rice cake but since the drought last fall, they only have enough flour to make one cake. Impatiently they wait for the...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 26, 2011 | Picture Book
Beverly BIllingsley loves to dress up in the costumes that came in her aunt’s trunk. She imagines herself as all sorts of characters including the Queen of Mesopotamia. Then, her teacher, Mr. Harrington, announces that the school will be doing a play, Stormy...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 26, 2011 | Picture Book
One day as Beverly and Oliver are playing their positions in the outfield, Beverly asks Oliver how he feels about being picked last. He hadn’t really noticed but she points out that the team captains were actually arguing about who would have to take them for...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 26, 2011 | Picture Book
Today is a very special day for Beverly Billingsley. Today she is getting her very own library card and becoming a member of the library. She will be checking out her first book on her new card. The book she chooses is about the Dinosaurs of the Cretaceous Period....
by Barb Langridge | Feb 25, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Eleven-year-old Tommy knows everything there is to know about sharks and his wish is to swim with the sharks and to meet his idol, Ty Barry. Because of Tommy’s cystic fibrosis, a Wish Foundation sends Tommy to California accompanied by his mom and sister,...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 25, 2011 | Mystery
When Margo Roth Spiegelman beckons Quentin Jacobsen in the middle of the night—dressed like a ninja and plotting an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows her. Margo’s always planned extravagantly, and, until now, she’s always planned solo. After a lifetime of...
