by Maria Lemonnier | Apr 23, 2010 | Historical Fiction
Samantha has high hopes for the best Christmas ever. Things start to go wrong when her Uncle Gard announces he is bringing the beautiful Cornelia home for the holidays. The household goes into a dither, and in all the confusion, No one pays much attention to Samantha...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 22, 2010 | Non-Fiction
The inspirational story of the Japanese national campaign to build the Children’s Peace Statue honoring Sadako and hundreds of other children who died as a result of the bombing of Hiroshima. Ten years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Sadako...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 21, 2010 | Picture Book
Miss Brooks, the librarian, really loves books. She dresses up for every book she reads to her classes. This little girl does not love books. In fact, she goes home and asks her mother if they can move so she can escape the books. “There’s a librarian in...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 21, 2010 | Picture Book
One day the elephant found a thingamabob. He wasn’t sure what it would do. Could he fly with it? Could he sail in it? He used his imagination and his curiosity to try to figure out what this thingamabob could do? Children will watch with delight as the elephant...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 21, 2010 | Picture Book
A young African American boy and his father are walking on the beach. The boy draws a picture of a lion in the sand and his father names it Sandy. Then the father goes to sit in the sand while the boy goes exploring. Don’t go in the water he tells him and...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 21, 2010 | Picture Book
Emma loves to watch the silk trains roar through her town. by Julie Lawson and illus by Paul Mombourquette Then, one day she comes home from school and learns that a silker has derailed and there’s a reward of five dollars for every bale of silk they find in the...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 21, 2010 | Picture Book
A little girl finds a small black worm and saves it from a blue jay who wants to eat it for lunch. She takes the little worm inside and her grandfather tells her it’s a larva and would soon become a butterfly. Working together, Grandfather and granddaughter...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 21, 2010 | Westerns
Indians, outlaws, or gun smoke here. The plot involve teenagers Hawkins and Tommy O’ Hallahan under the mentoring of the flawed father figure, John Henry Kenton, and is driven by the “open range” cowboy life versus progress symbolized by barbed wire....
by Barb Langridge | Apr 21, 2010 | Fiction
Mouse and Mole go bird watching, but everything they do scares the birds away.The friends come up with a plan to enable themselves to get closer to the birds without startling them. ********* A Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book It is a blustery spring day, and Mouse and...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 21, 2010 | Fiction
Mouse and Mole are very excited: they have front-row seats at a magic show!However, when Mole is asked to assist the magician on stage, he gets an unpleasant surprise.Only his good friend Mouse can help him see the magic that is everywhere. Submitted by Basya...
