by Barb Langridge | Feb 8, 2010 | Picture Book
Here is a board book that unfolds to show the entire alphabet page by page. “Albert Alligator tappy-taps atop the A. He’s always first in line, and that’s the alligator way.” Each letter has an animal and and the sound of the letter is used in...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 8, 2010 | Picture Book
This little board book has a whole lot going on! When you open up to the first page, it starts with “This book was made especially for someone who really counts:” and then there’s a line where you can write the child’s name. Then we begin to...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 8, 2010 | Picture Book
What a great way to encourage children to pretend and use their own imaginations. Hooray! I have a feeling a lot of parents are going to be down on their knees being flatbed trucks after a few readings of this one. This is one of those books that has the thicker...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 8, 2010 | Picture Book
Sunday dawns and this little boy knows exactly how the day is going to go. He gets out of bed, hectors his older brother and then heads down to eat the eggs and the biscuits and the “I don’t know what all.” His generations of family are gathered...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 8, 2010 | Fiction
This is an uproarious little book about a boy in search of his great big green lost dinosaur. The two are playing hide and seek and the little boy is searching everywhere from the police station to the dock by the bay. A keen eyed reader and even those of us with...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 6, 2010 | Mystery
A crime has been committed that strikes at the heart of Chet’s very own family. Some slippery sneak has stolen his mother’s beloved pearls, leaving Chet angrier than a nest of hornets on eviction day. When additional items go missing, Principal Zero turns...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 6, 2010 | Mystery
Hold on to your fedoras, Gecko fans: Chet and Natalie have at last met their sleuthing match. That’s right–a new detective has arrived at Emerson Hicky Elementary. His name’s Bland. James Bland. Bland immediately cracks a case that has baffled Chet...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 6, 2010 | Mystery
Get ready for muckraking time at Emerson Hicky Elementary. The race is on for student council president, but it’s quickly getting fishier than the bottom of a pelican’s lunch box. Someone is sending candidates ominous threats and posting signs with...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 6, 2010 | Mystery
It’s no mystery: Chet Gecko can’t sing. He can’t dance. He can’t act. Heck, he can’t even act normal. So why would he take the lead in Mr. Ratnose’s musical version of Shakespeare’s Omelet, Prince of Denver? A new case,...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 6, 2010 | Mystery
In this wisecracking, sidesplitting mystery from Chet Gecko’s tattered casebook, the fourth-grade detective and his punning mockingbird partner, Natalie Attired, keep the peace at Emerson Hicky Elementary. The two sleuths blow the lid off a cheating ring in Mr....
