by Barb Langridge | Aug 19, 2010 | Picture Book
Smelly Bill raises his snaggled nose out from the rubbish bin just in time to see a vision of loveliness: Peachy Snugglekins, a fancy pants white poodle. Bill is head over heels in love but at the other end of Peachy’s leash is Bill’s nemesis, Aunt Bleach....
by Barb Langridge | Aug 19, 2010 | Picture Book
For everyone who loves to see the good guys (in this case Smelly Bill) go up against the bad guys (in this case Aunt Bleach) this is one hilarious, smelly, romp of a stinky book. This book has traveled across the pond bringing its rubbish bins and disinfectant with it...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 19, 2010 | Humor
“Too silly” is my giggling six year old’s verdict of Funny Lunch, by David Catrow. That’s a great recommendation, if ever I’ve heard one. If you have a kindergartner or first grader who’s reading one or two sentences on a page, find...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 19, 2010 | Picture Book
This is a Scanimation Book from the same people who did GALLOP!, SWING!, etc. so particularly if you have a reluctant reader and you’re trying to convince this child that books can be fun, you would love to take a look at this. Turn the black cardboard pages and...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 19, 2010 | Short Stories
One night the alleys and streets of the world have all gone quiet, mice are running free and dogs are trying to figure out what’s going on. The cats are missing. They have gathered together from everywhere to tell their tells. The group, MEOW, is Memories...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 19, 2010 | Picture Book
Sometimes you open a picture book and you realize you are holding a work of art and that’s exactly how I felt as I opened this one. Gennady Spirin illustrates like nobody else. His work is breathtaking. The illustrations in this book are actually pieces of a...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 19, 2010 | Picture Book
With the reassuring, gentle illustrations of Wendy Anderson Halperin inviting us into each new pair of fathers and sons, we explore what it means to have a wonderful father in your life. It doesn’t matter if the father is blind and it doesn’t matter what...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 19, 2010 | Non-Fiction
Out in the yard in Jakarta, Indonesia, Barry played with his pet monkey, “ate snake meat and roasted grasshoppers and learned to box” and was he dreaming that one day he would be the President of the United States? That is the remarkable journey of Barack...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 19, 2010 | Picture Book
What a great book to read at the beginning of a new school year or any time you want to share the joy of books and taking care of books with children. Meet young Tess and her mother who are visiting the library. Tess sits down to enjoy her books but suddenly erupts...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 19, 2010 | Historical Fiction
“Warm and interesting stories about the little black girl, Lula Bell, Miss Hattie, her friends and her neighbors on Hibiscus Street. Stated First Edition, 1953. Hardcover bound in grey cloth. In her introduction, author Lois Lenski says, “In the writing of...
