by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2010 | Picture Book
The wonderful Karen Katz has gone down to the farm this time with another Touch and Feel book. This brightly colored board book has a straw hat to touch on the front cover and then we open the book to find baby visiting the farm. Touch the cow and feed the pigs. Pet...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2010 | Poetry
Alan Katz began his hit parade with TAKE ME OUT OF THE BATHTUB and has worked his way up to this book which is filled with “Silly Dilly Songs About Parents.” He has his usual good time skewering the parents to the tune of familiar songs. I think kids would...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 20, 2010 | Picture Book
Ready to go off on a wild adventure? Want to go with your lawn ornaments? We’re talking the pink flamingo, the garden gnome, a deer and of course, the jockey. Little Pearl, a human girl, is moving to a new home. But when the moving van pulls away, the lawn...
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...
