by Barb Langridge | Sep 23, 2010 | Picture Book
This book needs to be read with your eyes only; there are no words! When a young dog is tied to his doghouse one night, a small spaceship of aliens arrives close to him. The space aliens free the dog from his chain and they go and play in the sandbox and in the water....
by Barb Langridge | Sep 22, 2010 | Picture Book
A little boy is a willing reader with an annoying tiger behind the couch. The tiger makes many distracting noises such as chomping chewing gum, a ferocious bear, “hi-ya” sound of karate and a riding train with a blowing whistle all of which will highly...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 22, 2010 | Poetry
The focus of this poem collection is school scenes. “One Hundred Words” is about an old fashioned poetry writing assignment, “True or False” is a funny story about possible cheating, “Heavy Reading” is about postponing homework, “Vanessa Eats Paste” about glue eating...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 22, 2010 | Picture Book
This is the second book on which Jennifer Ward and Steve Gray have collaborated. The first was There Was a Coyote Who Swallowed a Flea (Rising Moon Publishers, 2007). While this reviewer has not read the Coyote tale, from reading reviews the pattern seems to be that...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 22, 2010 | Picture Book
Chester and Wilson had their own way of doing things, and they did everything together. When they cut their sandwiches, it was always diagonally. When they rode their bikes, they always used hand signals. If Chester was hungry, Wilson was too. They were two of a kind,...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 22, 2010 | Non-Fiction
An International Reading Association Teachers’ Choice A Cooperative Children’s Book Center Choice A Chicago Public Library Best Book “Rappaport and Evans reprise the passion and power that informed their 2002 collaboration, shining their spotlight on...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 22, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
On the first day of her vacation, super-student fourth-grader Natalie has set her first goal – to see how fast she can ride her bike around the block. As she starts, she is stopped by a most unconventional neighborhood child. With supreme confidence, Annie steps into...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 21, 2010 | Humor
This is the sixth in the Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa series. Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa: Spring Babies contains four chapters in which Kate and her horse Cocoa encounter the following: a calf being born, two playful calves, a new puppy, and barn owlets. Subtle lessons in...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 21, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Dorothy, we’re not in Kansas anymore. No, we’ve headed all the way to Africa. Meet Anna Hibiscus and her wonderful family full of children named Miracle, Sweetheart, Double, Trouble, Angel, Joy and Charity and her Auntie Comfort who lives in the United...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 21, 2010 | Non-Fiction
Eleanor Roosevelt was raised in a privileged but stern Victorian household, with an affectionate but mostly absent father and a critical mother who made fun of her daughter’s looks. Alone and lonely for much of her childhood, Eleanor found solace in books and in...
