by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2010 | Fiction
Every night Mr. Fox would ask his wife what she and the kids would like to eat for dinner, then he would sneak down from the hill they lived on and onto Boogis’ chicken farm, Bunce’s duck-and-goose farm, or Bean’s turkey-and-apple farm and bring home...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2010 | Picture Book
After Aloo-ki watched in utter desperation as her husky dog team floated out to sea on an iceberg, she wandered the barren ice land for help. It is then that she stumbles into a snow bear’s family igloo while they are out on a family stroll. Curious, Aloo-ki...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2010 | Picture Book
We all know winter has arrived when the first cool breeze makesyou shiver all the way to your bones. Lisa felt that breeze and dug out all her warm sweaters, mittens, and wool socks from her chest and hung them out in the fresh air. When another one of those cool...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2010 | Picture Book
Wow! What a great introduction to a whole zoo full of animals and how they move. This is a wonderful way to increase a child’s vocabulary and to teach about a great variety of animals. The pictures of the creatures are big and they grab the eye amidst all the...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2010 | Fiction
If you have not gotten enough of Charlie Buckett and Willy Wonka’s remarkably strange adventures in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, here are a few more. We last saw Charlie loading his entire family into the Great Glass Elevator to travel to their new home....
by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2010 | Fiction
Young James was leading a very unfortunate and depressed life at his Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker’s estate. That is until a mysterious stranger gave him some magic seeds to make everything better, but when James trips and drops them, he’ll get more than he...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2010 | Fiction
Mr. Twit is the nastiest, smelliest and grumpiest of all men in the whole wide world. He has the most disgusting beard with years of leftovers crusted in it and he has a love for playing the cruelest of all pranks, especially on his equally disgusting, foul, and mean...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 19, 2010 | Historical Fiction
Eleven year old Margo Bandini is so worried that her family and the families all around her may lose their homes and their jobs. It’s the Great Depression in Johnstown, PA and Margo decides she has to do something to help. So, she writes a letter to Mrs....
by Barb Langridge | Jan 19, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Fourth-grader Bobby Ellis-Chan bounces from one zany situation to another. When he goes on a field trip to the Huntington Gardens with his class, he gets stuck to the Koloff tree. He was only trying to hug a tree and now he smells like poop. Then, he has to get up in...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 18, 2010 | Poetry
This 33 word poem by Langston Hughes is brilliantly illustrated with the photographs of Charles R. Smith, Jr. He chose to take two or three words of each poem and bring them to life with a human face. As the pages turn the faces reflect many different shades of...
