by Barb Langridge | Nov 7, 2010 | Picture Book
Hunwick, my dear friends, is a bandicoot and he is one of the CUUUUUTEST things you’ve ever seen. He lives in a “dusty desert” far from the places we see everyday. In this “foreign” land filled with amazing plants and animals and insects,...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 7, 2010 | Non-Fiction
When the author, Jack Coughlin, was a kid he suffered a serious eye injury. Fortunately, it healed and thirty years later he was the Marine Corp’s top sniper. Hey, what about technology and “push button” warfare? Iraq and Afghanistan is what...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 7, 2010 | Picture Book
A little boy knows for sure that there is a nightmare in his closet. Gentle colors create an even tone for the edgy black lines that reveal the anxiety felt by one and all as the story unfolds. Is the nightmare still in there? The boy decides one night that he is...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 6, 2010 | Historical Fiction
If you ask folks from Hickory, North Carolina, what they remember about the year 1944, they might tell you about their fathers’ fighting Hitler, about the hardships of war, about the polio epidemic that swept the town and claimed their young ones, and about the...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 6, 2010 | Fantasy
The warriors charged, battling in the tapestry’s ancient cloth as Max watched. Old museum pieces can’t move, can they? Stolen paintings, that strange man spying on Max and his dad in the train, and now an invitation from a private academy back East –...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 6, 2010 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
Ohhhhh! Yotsuba’s back! Today, Yotsuba was drawing Jumbo, okay? That’s Daddy’s REALLY, REALLY BIG friend. He’s real nice and I guess a big baby. But he’s too big to draw in Yotsuba’s sketchbook! So Yotsuba drew Jumbo on the street...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 6, 2010 | Fantasy
As PERSEPHONE’s mom encourages her to do, she often “goes along to get along” instead of doing what she really wants. But when she meets Mount Olympus Academy bad-boy Hades, she finally feels she has found someone with whom she can be herself....
by Barb Langridge | Nov 6, 2010 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
Yotsuba met a robot at Ena’s house! Betcha haven’t met one ever! It was THIIIIIS big – but not bigger than Jumbo or anything – and it ate money! Yotsuba’s never met anyone who ate money before! Maybe it gets more powers with more money!?...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 6, 2010 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
*sniffle* Yotsuba thinks grown-ups are mean. Daddy plays all kinds of neat games with Yotsuba, but he ALWAYS WINS! Even when Yotsuba TELLS him to be paper in Rock-Paper-Scissors, he doesn’t listen! Even then! Yotsuba never, ever wants to be a big meanie...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 6, 2010 | Fiction
Sadie can’t wait to get involved with the local circus youth group, especially when it turns out she’s really good at acrobatics! Sadie wonders what to do when her best friend Jenny suddenly starts acting mean and jealous toward her. Luckily she finds a...
