by Barb Langridge | Oct 19, 2010 | Picture Book
Oh, the excitement of the first day of school, trading in bare feet for shoes and the chance to twirl in a brand new school uniform. Elizabeti waves goodbye to her cat and shares hugs and sloppy kisses with her mother and her brothers and sisters. Then, she and her...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 19, 2010 | Picture Book
From a village in Tanzania to anywhere else in the world feelings are the same and when Elizabeti’s mother has a new baby and needs to spend a whole lot of her time caring for that baby, Elizabeti decides to find her own baby to take care of. She does not have a...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 19, 2010 | Picture Book
Oh, the excitement of the first day of school in Chad. Thomas is following his older brothers and sisters along the path to school and he is full of questions. Will he get a pencil? Will he get a notebook? Oh the possibilities and the wonder of it all! But when they...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 19, 2010 | Graphic Novel / Comics / Manga
“Hot off the best-seller list, Big Nate is in a class by himself. This spunky 11-year-old holds the school record in detentions, but that doesn’t stop him from dreaming big! Big Nate is taking it from the top—the top of the troublemaker’s list! Nate...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 19, 2010 | Fiction
If you have read Merle’s Door, you may have been left wondering if another pup was going to come into the life of Ted Kerasote. Meet Pukka a darling yellow lab pup. Told as much through photographs as through text, the story of Pukka’s puppyhood and...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 19, 2010 | Picture Book
A large, gentle, lumbering bear has a problem. He tries to find some help but each person he turns to thinks they know what he’s going to say and instead of hearing him out, they jump to a conclusion and offer him an off base solution. The inventor hears,...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 19, 2010 | Picture Book
A caped crusader known as Fireboy leaps off the page to teach us all about fire safety. Designed with a comic book feel, this informative, eye-catching book offers advice about how to avoid fires, what to do if there is a fire in your home or your school and shares a...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 15, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Summer means Mo’s best friend is coming back to Fox Street! Merce’s grandmother Da lives right across the street from Mo, her dad, and her wild-child little sister Dottie. Da tells the history of Fox Street with love and care, each house, each store, each...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 15, 2010 | Humor
Frannie B. Miller might only be in elementary school, but she is absolutely dying to be a grown up with a real grown up job and an office. She even has her business cards and resume ready to go, but no one will give her a break! When Frannie’s class takes a field trip...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 15, 2010 | Picture Book
Edward looks to be about four years old. His mother is pregnant. Edward wants a “James,” not a “Sarah.” Edward’s family and their friends prepare for the baby’s arrival: Edward prepares for the baby brother he knows will be coming. Bunting writes a book families who...
