by Barb Langridge | Jan 1, 2011 | Picture Book
A charming, wordless picture book that the very youngest can “read” all by themselves. The little wooden couple are happy in their building-block house—until it catches fire. The solution? They transform the house into a fire engine! But then there’s so much water...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 1, 2011 | Picture Book
Maxine goes with her mother to buy a new pair of shoes and picks out a very special pair.—from the publisher 24 pages 9780307109088 Ages 3-6 Editor’s note: One Red Shoe (The Other One’s Blue!) is the...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 1, 2011 | Historical Fiction
In another installment of the series that brings history to a personal level for young readers, a young Irish immigrant girl shares her experiences as a worker at the Lowell Mill.—from the publisher In the diary account of her journey from Ireland in 1847 and of...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 29, 2010 | Historical Fiction
This is a historical fiction and time shifting novel that begins during World War II in China with CC leaving the family’s boat to enter the city of Feng Jie to buy food. After a fall, CC ends up in a hospital in a coma. Awakening from the coma, CC does not know who...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 29, 2010 | Non-Fiction
This eye-opening book takes us to faraway Antarctica, a place so cold “it’s hard to imagine anything living there.” But there is something in the distance, barely visible in the inhospitable darkness. As we move closer, we discover the...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 29, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
In this newest Katie Woo book, six-year-old Katie’s mother goes to bring soup to a sick neighbor, but when Katie asks if she can go, her mother is afraid Katie will catch the illness. Her dad won’t let her help fix the car because she might get hurt. Katie...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 29, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Readers who loved the fearful second-grader in his debut appearance in Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things will rejoice at the return of the self-proclaimed phobic: “I was born scared, and I am still scared.” (Familiarity with the...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 29, 2010 | Fiction
Alfie is an adorable alligator who wants one of the cookies his mother has just baked. When he attempts to help himself, his mother tells him to “think of a better way to get a cookie.” Alfie tries a number of methods, including dressing up as a...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 29, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
“We are the Golds!We’re golden!” he boomed at me.“No Gold is average!”Dad was going ballistic, but Calli’s fourth grade report card said it was so.Now a fifth grader, Calli Gold is an average in a family of overachievers.Mom quit her job in industry to manage her...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 28, 2010 | Picture Book
Dyson loves pink, sparkly things. Sometimes he wears dresses. Sometimes he wears jeans. He likes to wear his princess tiara, even when climbing trees. He’s a Princess Boy. Inspired by the author’s son, and by her own initial struggles to understand, this...
