by Barb Langridge | Jul 6, 2010 | Picture Book
Unhappy about having to spend the summer with his great aunt in Chinatown, Peter discovers a sense of satisfaction in repairing the old ten-man dragon he finds in a shop window, with the help of his new friends. 32 pages Ages 5-7 Used by Permission of Houghton Mifflin...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 6, 2010 | Fiction
Based on Allen Say’s own boyhood in Japan, The Ink-Keeper’s Apprentice is a rich and remarkable novel. The story of a budding artist and his steps toward self-reliance, Kiyoi’s tale is also one of the fragile beauty of human relationships– of...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 6, 2010 | Picture Book
In Korea in the early 1800s, news from the countryside reached the king by means of signal fires. On one mountaintop after another, a fire was lit when all was well. If the king did not see a fire, that meant trouble, and he would send out his army. Linda Sue...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 6, 2010 | Picture Book
In A.D. 751, an old Chinese grandfather and his grandson are captured by the Great Sultan of Samarkand. Rather than be sold into slavery, they are granted seven days to prove Young Wu’s claim that they can “make clouds.” Grandfather and grandson set...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 6, 2010 | Picture Book
A young boy listens to his favorite fairy tale about a man who has a wife who wandered in out of the snow and over the years saved them from poverty by weaving valuable cloth until the man failed to heed her warning and she turned into a crane and flew away. With the...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 6, 2010 | Picture Book
At home in San Francisco, May speaks Japanese and the family eats rice and miso soup and drinks green tea. When she visits her friends’ homes, she eats fried chicken and spaghetti. May plans someday to go to college and live in an apartment of her own. But when...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 6, 2010 | Fiction
Two boys, Lincoln and Tony, have arrived in Japan to be exchange students. Their heartfelt attempts to blend in to their host families offer gently amusing and entertaining vignettes of daily activities. What’s normal in America is different in this new world....
by Barb Langridge | Jul 6, 2010 | Picture Book
In the misty mountains a little panda bear climbs tall trees, munches sweet bamboo, and curls up in his favorite perch to sleep. It is just right–until Mother Panda goes looking for a snack and Little Panda’s nap is disturbed by something unexpected. What...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 6, 2010 | Picture Book
The Kamishibai man used to ride his bicycle into town where he would tell stories to the children and sell them candy, but gradually, fewer and fewer children came running at the sound of his clappers. They were all watching their new televisions instead. Finally,...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 6, 2010 | Picture Book
Have you ever been to Tokyo, Japan? Far away, in the Pacific Ocean, Tokyo is a busy city of color, activity, celebrations, gigantic buildings, and much more. Seven-year-old Mimiko lives in Tokyo, and here you can follow a year’s worth of fun, food and...
