by Barb Langridge | Feb 16, 2010 | Non-Fiction
It’s a pop-up book! If you have one of those young’uns who really wants to understand how the world works, here is a fabulous book. As you open the first page, you’ll find a picture of our solar system and a tab you can pull open to produce the Big...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 15, 2010 | Fiction
Katarina Bishop walked away from her life as a thief to go to a normal private school and have a normal life. But, that was before Arturo Taccone, a powerful mobster, accuses her father of having stolen some of his most valuable paintings and he’s giving him two...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 14, 2010 | Picture Book
What is a simile? The book opens with an explanation of similes and how often you’ll see the words “like” or “as” used to introduce them. But, some similes are used so often they have become cliches and no one wants to speak or write in...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 14, 2010 | Fiction
With a blast of trumpets the messenger from the King announces that one of the sons of the blacksmith, Mr. Wright, will be offered a chance to be a page at the castle and if he succeeds he may rise to squire and then to knight. Young Roland Wright has always dreamed...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 12, 2010 | Fiction
Ribsy isn’t just any old mutt. Ribsy is Henry Higgins’ loyal pooch that dominates Klickitat Street. He only has one itch of a problem, too: a flea right under his collar that he never seems able to scratch. And if it weren’t for that blasted flea,...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 12, 2010 | Fiction
Ramona Quimby feels all grown up now that she is going into third grade and even is going to a new school where her older sister will no longer be around to taunt her. So what seems to go so wrong in what seems to be a great life? Ramona is making people laugh and the...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 12, 2010 | Fiction
Everyone knows about witches with their pointy, black hats and their flying broomsticks. But what we know is all very wrong. Witches happen to look like very ordinary women and act like any other lady you have ever met, and that is just the problem. Witches loathe...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 12, 2010 | Non-Fiction
As school holidays draw to a close, many students will have visited some of the famous cities featured in this book and may well enjoy revisiting some of the sites and sights they saw, and perhaps sharing some of their adventures. Others may be intrigued by what they...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 12, 2010 | Humor
“It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” and that’s “A Whole Nother Story.” The entire Cheeseman family is piling into the white station wagon along with Dad’s invention, a time machine known as the LVR and is racing out of reach of...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 12, 2010 | Fantasy
“The dramatic story of a lonely and misunderstood boy who has an exhilarating relationship with animals and nature, Song of the Wild is a book for all ages. Twelve-year-old Caleb Erikson, who was born with a strange and wonderful talent that lets him take his...
