by Barb Langridge | Feb 4, 2010 | Picture Book
Spring has come to the meadow and here is a “brand-new wee little bunny.” He is a busy little bunny. He chases the dragonfly and plays with the chipmunk. He tumbles in the clover and hurries home to Mama for storytime and to tell her all about his big...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 4, 2010 | Picture Book
The Little Dump Truck by Margery Cuyler and illus by Bob Kolar Okay, try reading this to the tune of I’m a Little Teapot. “i’m a little dump truck run by Hard Hat Pete, rattle-rattle-clatter, driving down the street.” Wow this dump truck has a...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 4, 2010 | Picture Book
You’re My Little Bunny Claire Freedman and Gavin Scott Scholastic 978-0545207218 This rhyming board book has some of the cutest, most gentle bunnies I’ve seen in a long time. It’s a brand new day and Mommy and her baby Bunny are bouncing off for some...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 4, 2010 | Picture Book
Honk Honk baby touch and feel A big rig with a front grille you can feel, a dump truck with a scratchy load in the back,a firetruck with shiny lights on top, a backhoe loader with plastic windwos you can see through, a pickup truck and a concrete truck round out the...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 4, 2010 | Picture Book
A bunny, a fawn, a pair of ducklings, a raccoon, a hedgehog, and a lamb are the stars of the show in this book. The pictures are real photographs and there is something to touch and feel on each animal. Big images and bright colors make it great for one and up....
by Barb Langridge | Feb 4, 2010 | Picture Book
Where’s My Sweetie Pie by Ed Emberley A lift-the-flap book with a mirror Oh I can just imagine the anticipation as you read and re-read this book with your toddler. Let’s see now. Where is my sweetie pie? Is she in the chair? Lift the flap. No that’s...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 4, 2010 | Fiction
“Do sit up Treehorn. I can hardly see your head.” “I am sitting up, said Treehorn. This is as far up as I come. I think I must be shrinking or something.” “I’m sorry my cake didn’t turn out well,” said Treehorn’s...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 4, 2010 | Fiction
Frog has been waiting for Toad to wake up and now it is April and it is spring and Frog runs to Toad’s house to tell him it’s time to get up. But Toad does not want to get up. He tells Frog to come back in May. Frog will be lonely if Toad does not get up....
by Barb Langridge | Feb 4, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
In this Newbery Honor—winning story from 1984, a new family builds a relationship as a stepfather and stepson celebrate their differences and take heart in their similarities.–From the publisher 978-0440421221 64 pages Ages 6-9 ******** Like Jake and Me is a...
by Barb Langridge | Feb 4, 2010 | Picture Book
How fun to pick up this book written in the thirties to see how different our picture books are now! “In North China, near the Great Wall, is a city shut in by a Wall.” This is where young Mei Li lives with her family and it is the day before New...
