by Barb Langridge | Oct 7, 2010 | Sports
Author Mina Javaherbin writes of six neighborhood boys in South Africa playing a pickup game of soccer in the alley.The excitement is the new federation-sized soccer ball Ajani, the main character, has won for being the best reader in class.The boys must play with a...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 7, 2010 | Picture Book
Leena is thrilled to be invited to the birthday party of a playmate, until she realizes that the party is the same day that she has chosen to fast with her family as part of the Ramadan celebration.Torn between the two choices, Leena decides to do both, attending the...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 7, 2010 | Picture Book
Preschool seems like “safe land” to this little girl as she nears the first day of kindergarten. In her imagination she sees her teacher as a pencil-haired Medusa monster. She thinks of how big the other kids will be compared to her small self. She makes...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 7, 2010 | Picture Book
“This is the turtle that slid into the pond and ate the snake that dropped from a branch and swallowed the fish that swam after the frog — JUMP, FROG, JUMP!” This infectious cumulative tale will soon have the young frogs you know jumping and chanting...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 7, 2010 | Humor
The kids from Aesop Elementary School are back, and this time they rule the school as 5th graders! Rejoining them is their beloved kooky teacher Mr. Harry Valentine Jupiter, the only staff member at the school brave enough to take on this class of rowdy misfits. Each...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 7, 2010 | Picture Book
In an unspecified middle eastern country, Yasmin is visiting her grandmother. She hears the muezzin calling the faithful to prayer, but is too sleepy to get up. The next day, she asks her grandmother about the prayers, and her grandmother plans a day of expeditions,...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 7, 2010 | Sports
In the first book of the brand new “Kickers” series, Rich Wallace introduces readers to Ben and the Bobcats.This is Ben’s first time on a real soccer team, but he just knows that he’s going to be the best player out there; he’s a four-square champ on the playground...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 6, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
What happens when your perfect life turns upside down? That’s what preteen Sunny (short for Sunday) Hathaway has to figure out when she finds herself in a state of upheaval one fateful summer. Sunny, a self-described introvert, only child, and entrepreneur, does not...
by Barb Langridge | Oct 6, 2010 | Picture Book
Some people wear shoes and others may not. Here is a photo journey through the neighborhood to explore people wearing shoes. The photography is clear and simple, which invites the reader or listener to try to guess who is wearing the shoes and what their job might be....
by Barb Langridge | Oct 6, 2010 | Picture Book
Who Will Plant a Tree? is a book that follows a pattern after the initial page asks the title question. On the left-hand page is an animal in nature. On the right-hand page, the inadvertent actions of the animal (such as burying an acorn or shaking a cherry seed out...
