by Barb Langridge | Nov 8, 2010 | Historical Fiction
In an engaging and realistic piece of historical fiction, David A. Adler spins the tale of Tommy, a 13-year-old boy living in New York City on the brink of World War II. Tommy, like most of his classmates, would much rather worry about baseball scores, neighborhood...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 8, 2010 | Fiction
Three delightful stories, The Fibber, The Experiment and The Picnic make up this highly entertaining early readers about a pair of well-matched hippos, George and Martha. They each have their little quirks and happily the other balances things quite nicely. In The...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 8, 2010 | Fiction
On a cold snowy evening, Chicago the cat opens his front door to find a bunny snowshoeing right in and making himself at home. Chicago wants to throw him out but when the bunny shows him just how cold it is, he gives in and lets the bunny stay. They become housemates...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 8, 2010 | Fiction
Frances is headed out the door to play with Thelma today. “Be careful,” says her mother. Thelma is a crafty one all right, and this time Frances is going to play tea party with mud and Thelma’s plastic tea set. Frances is saving her money, all of...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 8, 2010 | Fiction
Pinky, a boy, has a best friend named Rex, a girl. Today they’re headed to school and Rex is worrying about the spelling bee. She’s a terrible speller and she hates being the first one to sit down. The dreaded bee begins and sure enough, down goes Rex....
by Barb Langridge | Nov 8, 2010 | Fiction
Barney is a peddler who drives his horse-drawn wagon through the city streets selling potatoes, onions and apples and greeting the neighbors and letting the children climb on his horse’s back. He is a part of the neighborhood. One day some men show up in the...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 8, 2010 | Fiction
Life is good for Joe and his dinosaur, Betsy, as long as the weather is fine but as soon as the snow comes, things get complicated. For example, when Betsy jumps on the ice on the pond….well, you can imagine how that ice went flying. When they go to their...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 8, 2010 | Fiction
After camping out for a week in the house in his brand new blue and green tent, Harry is excited when his mother suggests he might want to try the backyard for a change. Harry, by the way, is a cat. This backyard camping is everything he imagined. He hikes to the edge...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 8, 2010 | Fiction
Harry is busy riding his horse around his bedroom in his home in the city. Through the door his parents hear, “Whoa” and “Giddyap.” “Let’s take Harry to the country, ” says his father who along with Harry’s mother cannot...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 8, 2010 | Fiction
Sam is a black and white puppy with a smile on her face who is looking for a friend. She has been let out the door to play but it’s really no fun by herself. Her world is one of flowers, fences and frogs but that smiling frog hops away and Sam decides to dig...
