by Barb Langridge | Oct 31, 2010 | Humor
Spring has arrived and Turtle is all ready to take on the things that need to be spruced up and mended. Donning his extremely manly (or perhaps turtlely) tool belt, his hard hat and his work boots (Bob the Builder has nothing on Turtle), Turtle heads over to his...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 31, 2010 | Humor
Alien and Possum with a now long established friendship are facing a big problem. Alien feels as though he is one of a kind. He does not “feel like anyone else” and he does not “sound like anyone else” and he feels “ALONE.” Happily,...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 31, 2010 | Humor
Sometimes a little blue dragon who lives all by himself in a little house gets lonely and needs a friend. Being a dragon of action he heads off to make a friend. “Will you be my friend?” he asks animal after animal. No one is interested until an apple...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 31, 2010 | Non-Fiction
In 1966, when Ji-Li Jiang was 12 years old, Chairman Mao of China instituted that country’s Cultural Revolution. Chinese citizens were expected to do away with the “Four Olds:” old ideas, old cultures, old customs, and old habits. Overnight, Ji-Li’s status as a...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 31, 2010 | Fantasy
When Lucinda Chapdelaine was five, her parents left for a royal ball and never returned. For the past ten years, she has been living with her goldsmith uncle and unsympathetic, abusive aunt and working in their jewelry shop. The fifteen-year-old’s life begins to...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 29, 2010 | Poetry
In this sequel to The Way a Door Closes,13-year old C.J. is struggling with his emotions now that his father has returned to the family.Can he trust that his father will stay?Can he overcome the anger and the sadness that the abandonment created?Will he be able to...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 29, 2010 | Picture Book
In Africa our story begins as a young boy is learning the craft of generations, coiling the grasses into unbroken circles and creating baskets for so many things. The boy learned to coil the grasses and marched into manhood only to be taken into slavery and sent to...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 29, 2010 | Picture Book
Here it is! The third and final book in the Knuffle Bunny series. Knuffle Bunny and Trixie and her parents are off on an adventure. They are flying on an airplane all the way to Holland to see their grandparents. Combining comic illustrations with real photographs, Mo...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 29, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Written by a high school biology teacher and wrestling coach, this is the story of a class of fifth grade kids and how their new teacher changes the patterns and norms of their lives at school and beyond. Mr. Terupt is the new teacher in town and the kids are the...
by Maria Lemonnier | Oct 29, 2010 | Historical Fiction
Samantha’s birthday party is nearly ruined when Eddie Ryland plays a mean trick. Then Agnes and Agatha, Cornelia’s ten-year-old twin sisters, save the day with an invitation to visit New York City. Samantha loves the twins’ carefree attitude and...
