by Barb Langridge | Aug 6, 2010 | Picture Book
There is wonder in our world if we stop and appreciate it and this book is a great guide for children to learn to celebrate the special things in each day. Sailing through the day, this multiracial family is experiencing such glorious moments together. Walking,...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 6, 2010 | Picture Book
Our girls deserve to know deep inside that they can do whatever they choose. That’s the message of this brightly illustrated voice cheering girls on to be their best selves. Using the examples of Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Sandra Day O’Connor and Sally Ride,...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 6, 2010 | Picture Book
As our children begin school each year with their backpacks and calculators and new shoes, other children sit in other lands and wish and wait for the opportunity to get an education. This is the story of Nasreen and her family. Her father has been taken away by...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 6, 2010 | Picture Book
Ah, the mysterious life of a cat! Sometimes we understand them and sometimes we don’t! With bright, bold gleeful illustrations, we turn the pages and lift the flaps to follow Tippy Toes on his adventures through the day. Even the mouse in his hole knows the...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 6, 2010 | Picture Book
Joha is walking along on a hot, dusty road on his way to Baghdad when he stops to rest in the shade of an old crumbling wall. The wall collapses and reveals a sealed jar and when Joha opens the jar, he finds a magical wishing stick. Oh, what to wish for? He begins by...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 6, 2010 | Picture Book
As Ramadan comes to an end, shoemaker, Nabeel, closes his shop and heads off to buy some gifts for his family. He finds a burqa for his wife and a dupatta for his mother. Then he picks up some bangles for his daughter. Finally he buys a new pair of pants to wear...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 6, 2010 | Non-Fiction
If I showed you a picture of a bone, do you think you could tell me who it belonged to and where exactly it would fit into the whole skeleton? You just might be able to do that after taking a look at and a read through this brilliantly organized and illustrated book...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 6, 2010 | Picture Book
I have a feeling that hundreds if not thousands of first grade classes across America are about to adopt a dog and his name is Rocket. Rocket is living a full life when first we meet, chasing and chewing and napping. But, on this fall morning, he’s about to meet...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 6, 2010 | Fantasy
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor: these are just some of the strange and amazing stories that clever Scheherazade tells to captivate her husband, King Shahryar…and to save her own life. Each one is more fantastic than the last, filled with...
by Barb Langridge | Aug 5, 2010 | Historical Fiction
Victorian London can be an unforgiving place of hardship for those without a home and family. Mary Finn finds herself dismissed from her own family when her father remarries and sends her off to work outside the home. Ending up as a maid and sharing a bed with the...
