by Barb Langridge | Oct 24, 2010 | Picture Book
If you walk along the sandy beaches of Cape May, Delaware, your eye just might be caught by the shimmering sight of a Cape May Diamond, otherwise known as quartz. These are wonderful treasures to collect on a walk along the shore. But Cape May hasn’t always been...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 24, 2010 | Picture Book
Saruni has a hand full of coins as he walks around the marketplace looking at the toys and the fruit and all the tempting things he could buy. But, instead of spending his money he holds tightly to it. This money is going to go home into his money box where he is...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 24, 2010 | Picture Book
It’s hard to be the son or daughter of a parent who is dealing with mental illness. Sometimes your mom is up and sometimes your mom is down and there is no rhyme or reason to it. This is a story about Annie whose mother suffers from bipolar disorder. This...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 24, 2010 | Picture Book
Jumpin and jivin and swingin and movin to the music and it’s all happening on March 12, 1926 at The Savoy so the story goes. Sitting in his Pop’s Shoeshine Shop, young Happy Feet is listening again to the story of that magical night, the night he was born,...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 24, 2010 | Picture Book
He’s sure those shoes just won’t fit his feet and if he doesn’t put them on maybe he won’t have to go to school. Everyone wants Little Cliff to go to school but he would much rather stay home where everything is familiar and friendly and fun....
by Barb Langridge | Oct 24, 2010 | Picture Book
“What scares the head is best done with the heart” and that is the kind of courage that twelve year old Christmas John summons from himself when Granny Judith asks him to row young Molly across the river to freedom in Ohio. If he’s caught by the...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 23, 2010 | Historical Fiction
At the dawn of Hitler’s rise to power in Germany in 1933 and a period of the most brutal, aggressive anti-Semitism the world has ever seen, two boys swear eternal brotherhood by slitting their wrists and mingling their blood. Having experienced so much together,...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 23, 2010 | Picture Book
The age old question Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road gets fourteen different answers illustrated by fourteen different talent artists. This is a fantastic collection of the different styles of these artists and it’s a great way to show how different people...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 23, 2010 | Humor
Elephant and Piggie are just hanging around when suddenly Elephant notices that someone is looking at them and that someone is YOU the reader. Piggie peers out of the book and is delighted to announce that she sees a Reader and that the Reader is reading them. They...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 22, 2010 | Picture Book
With a smile on her face Cat the Cat is making the rounds to her animal friends to gather them together for a good night’s sleep. As in all of the books in this series, the faces of the critters tell the story. The text is repetitious and rhyming and makes for a...
