by Barb Langridge | Apr 21, 2010 | Picture Book
Set in Northern Canada, the story of a young Inuit girl’s journey into the magical world that exists under the sea ice, in winter, when the tide is out. The girl’s name is Eva Padlyat. She goes under the ice to collect mussels as her people have done always (for, yes,...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 21, 2010 | Fiction
One night Possum is sitting out under a tree looking at the stars when he sees a spaceship crash to Earth. He slowly makes his way over to the spacecraft and hides behind a tree. Tentatively he tries to talk with the space creature who is hiding behind another tree....
by Barb Langridge | Apr 21, 2010 | Poetry
Wonderful Jane Yolen has written simple poems describing shapes in nature. The poems are matched with beautiful photographs from nature. For example, on the page of the spiral shape is a snail clinging to a lovely lavender flower. “Tight as a spring”...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 21, 2010 | Fiction
Mole’s day is not getting off to a good start.He discovers that the pants and shirt he is wearing have holes in them, and that there are moth holes in the rest of his clothes!To make matters worse, a shopping trip with Mouse to buy something new does not go...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 21, 2010 | Fiction
After her sister’s disappearance, twelve-year-old Polly tries to reconcile her broken family, save her beloved local forest from developers and learn to cope with her unusual talents. During her personal journey, she makes new friends, loses old ones and gains a...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 17, 2010 | Non-Fiction
Princess Ka’lulani, born in 1875, was eleven years old when her mother the Queen of Hawai’i passed away leaving her as the heir to the throne. The princess was sent to England for schooling but carried with her her mother’s vision that she would...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 15, 2010 | Historical Fiction
“Reading is freedom,” Hannah’s mother tells her. “The thoughts in books are powerful strong, stronger even than chains,” her father says. When ten-year-old Amanda hears noises in the night, she sneaks downstairs and discovers her house is...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 11, 2010 | Non-Fiction
From his childhood in rural Illinois to moviemaking days in Hollywood and on to a career in politics that took him all the way to the Oval Office, Ronald Reagan kept an abiding faith in America and in what our country stood for. The oldest president ever, he survived...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 8, 2010 | Picture Book
When they arrive at school, Shi-shi-etko reminds Shinchi, her six-year-old brother, that they can only use their English names and that they can’t speak to each other. For Shinchi, life becomes an endless cycle of church mass, school, and work, punctuated by...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 7, 2010 | Fantasy
Intrigue continues in the world of Eugenides but this time it centers on his friend, Sophos, nephew and heir of the king of Sounis. A teenager, Sophos does not hold ambition for a future in leadership and politics. He prefers the kingdom of poetry. But when he loses...
