by Barb Langridge | Jul 6, 2010 | Picture Book
A wonderful paperback picture book about the joys of family and food, from Newbery Award winning author Linda Sue Park.Bee-bim bop (“mix-mix rice”) is a traditional Korean dish. In bouncy rhyming text, a hungry child tells of helping her mother make...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 6, 2010 | Action / Adventure
The power and prowess of ninja never seem to lose their appeal to young readers, especially boys. Blue Fingers, a suspenseful, action-packed coming-of-age story set in feudal Japan, offers an up-close look at this noble, fierce way of life.Through an odd twist of...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 5, 2010 | Non-Fiction
So, what would it be like to be a child living in Mongolia? Since most of us won’t be visiting there any time soon, how wonderful that the roaming Jan Reynolds has taken her magical camera and gone on our behalf. Mongolians learn they are “part of nature...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 5, 2010 | Picture Book
THE MAGICAL GARDEN OF CLAUDE MONET, written and illustrated by Laurence Anholt, is a delightful story filled with discovery on many levels. Julie follows her pet dog, Louey, who had crawled under a fence hole and entered the most lovely garden. After talking to a kind...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 5, 2010 | Picture Book
Through the thousands of years of human history, different cultures have chosen to preserve their stories through cave paintings, cuneiform, pyramids and mosaics. The Hmong people tell their stories by embroidering detailed, vivid scenes on cloth and this is the...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 5, 2010 | Picture Book
Young Mai, a Hmong girl, lives with Grandmother in a refugee camp. There, they make their home growing coriander and chiles and making a living by sewing pa’ndau. These pa’ndau are cloths carefully stitched with flowers and memories and they are sought...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 5, 2010 | Non-Fiction
Namaste! Welcome to another of Jan Reynolds gorgeous books from the Vanishing Cultures series. This one is set in the Himalaya mountains. The Sherpa and the Tibetan peoples live a life that is very different from those of us in the Western World and we are introduced...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 4, 2010 | Action / Adventure
Video game afficianado, Max Murphy, is about to play the game of his life but it will be for real. His parents, Harvard archaeologists, have left him behind to head to Central America for the chance to work on Maya secrets. Through the machinations of his nanny, Zia,...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 4, 2010 | Non-Fiction
The army is on the move and nothing can stand in its way! We’re talking about army ants. The illustrations lead you into the carefully organized world of ants among the flowers and creatures all around us. Where do army ants live? What do they eat? Are all ants...
by Barb Langridge | Jul 4, 2010 | Picture Book
The first day of January is New Year’s Day in western culture but in Vietnam the “Feast of the First Day” otherwise known as Tet Nyen Don (Tet), is celebrated at the end of January and the beginning of February over the course of four days. Through...
