by Barb Langridge | Sep 19, 2010 | Picture Book
Kids and adults alike will find the humor in Eileen Brennan’s story of Dirtball Pete. Dirtball Pete looked like something the cat dragged in. It was a fact, he smelled to high heavens and never looked clean, no matter how hard his mom tried to keep him nice and neat....
by Barb Langridge | Sep 19, 2010 | Picture Book
Journey into the deep, deep sea with Mr. Fish, as he tries to help Ms. Clam find her pearl. There is only one little problem. He is as fast as a sailfish and strong as a shark, he is smart as a dolphin, but he is afraid of the DARK!! Miss Shimmer cheers him on and...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 19, 2010 | Picture Book
An ordinary day at school turns into a grand, magical day when children decide to use their imaginations and make everything they do a little bit special. It all begins as they are lining up to go into school and someone says, “Let’s leapfrog in.”...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 19, 2010 | Picture Book
In Lake City, South Carolina, in 1959, Ron McNair, age nine, was on a misson. It was summer vacation and he knew exactly what he was going to do. He headed out of the house, passed his friends in the shops and on the basketball court, and he kept going until he got to...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 19, 2010 | Picture Book
Here’s a bright, cheerful little book that takes on some simple math concepts that you learn in kindergarten. You begin by counting your way out of bed, and out of the house and onto the bus to ride to school. These numbers go up to 10 and then we see first,...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 19, 2010 | Picture Book
Everyone knows kindergarten is all about the alphabet and learning to read the letters. Here’s a fun little book that follows the letters of the alphabet as they appear in a kindergarten class. On Aa day they find acorns outside their school and on Bb day they...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 19, 2010 | Picture Book
“I’m a pout-pout fish With a pout-pout face, So I spread the dreary-wearies All over the place,” goes the refrain of this book. This is one gloomy fish and no matter how the other sea creatures try, they can’t talk him into a smile. Nope,...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 19, 2010 | Poetry
A diverse group of authors contributed poems that have been truly illuminated, and brought to life, by the talented Chris Soenpiet. Each picture celebrates a face and the feelings that the face is expressing. Sadness, joy, excitement, contentment and more are gathered...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 18, 2010 | Non-Fiction
Cesar Chavez started life on a farm but the Great Depression took that from his family and they were forced to take to the road as migrant workers. Chavez attended 165 schools as he grew up and spent time in the fields picking beans, broccoli, lettuce, cauliflower,...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 18, 2010 | Picture Book
Three animals are “chilling out” in a backyard when a rag man enters the yard with a BIG sneeze. It causes the dog to meow, the cat to have bunny ears and to bark and the bunny to have small cat ears. They need to find the rag man to change them back. On...
