by Barb Langridge | Jan 21, 2011 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Every now and then an author writes a book and has a small character who shouts to come out and come alive in a book of his own. If you have read Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt then you may well remember Doug Swieteck and his brother, who remained nameless. Well,...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 21, 2011 | Picture Book
Hace mucho tiempo—a long time ago—there lived a beautiful young woman named Adelita. So begins the age-old tale of a kindhearted young woman, her jealous stepmother, two hateful stepsisters, and a young man in search of a wife. The young man, Javier, falls madly in...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 21, 2011 | Picture Book
I love you when you give me kisses. I love you when you need hugs… Most of all, I love you just the way you are. Todd Parr celebrates the unconditional love between parent and child. From the heartfelt (“I love you when you need hugs”) to the...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 21, 2011 | Picture Book
In clear and eloquent language, Gary Paulsen pays tribute to a cycle of life–from seed to plant to tortilla. Workers till the black soil, operate the clanking machinery of the factory, and drive the trucks that deliver the tortillas back into the hands that will...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 21, 2011 | Picture Book
Sam has a joyful story to tell, one completely her own, yet common to millions of families — the story of how she was adopted. Most of all, it’s a story about love. And in the end, Sam’s story comes full circle, inviting young readers to share...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2011 | Historical Fiction
Most critics consider the author, Bernard Cornwell, one of the best living historical novelists. He is both popular and prolific — I count over fifty titles including over thirty “Sharpe” titles. The fictitious Richard “Dick” Sharpe is to...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2011 | Fantasy
Grandpa Will always tells Lucy that you have to be a special person to see Lob, the green man who helps in his garden. She knows it’s true, and she’s excited the first time she catches a glimpse of him. But when Grandpa Will dies unexpectedly and the cottage with its...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2011 | Non-Fiction
A young boy heads to Ireland to do God’s work but finds himself unwanted and his mission ignored. So he takes himself up into the hills and creates his own place of good works and the flock that comes to him is all animals. He has been sent by St. Patrick and he...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2011 | Historical Fiction
Young Staplyton is eager to join the Fencibles, for glory and honor and manhood. He’s twelve but he is about to sail off to Ireland as the drummer to this Staffordshire unit serving George II of England. In Ireland the Fencibles will serve their king by...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2011 | Short Stories
Gary Schmidt has gathered a collection of very short and very powerful stories that were first told in the barracks of concentrations camps. Written as the stories of Mara, they’re delivered as tales she would recite each evening as another day was coming to an...
