by Barb Langridge | Jan 16, 2010 | Picture Book
“Who will you be and where will you go? How will you know?” Every child is setting forth on a journey. You find out who you are and you find out where life will take you. This book celebrates how many difference selves we have inside us. We have our wild...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 16, 2010 | Humor
Well the day has arrived when Buzz and his pet, Fly Guy, meet Liz and her pet, Fly Girl. They compare pets and then start to play. Fly Guy and Fly Girl really like each other. In fact, get ready for it, they kiss. Oh my. Imagine the hilarity of that moment as you do a...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 16, 2010 | Picture Book
Wow you can practically hear the gears in the babies’ brains clicking as they watch and listen to this wonderful version of their day. Wake up to a beautiful photograph of a sunrise filled with possibilities and then we’re off on a choo choo train! This...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 16, 2010 | Picture Book
Horace has a lump of pastry and this time he is going to turn it into a gingerbread bear using a cookie cutter. He can’t wait to eat his cookie. But Mum keeps tellling him, not yet, it’s too hot or not yet, it ‘s time for dinner. End result is he...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 16, 2010 | Fantasy
Fifteen-year old Will has been a ward at Castle Redmount his entire life; and the only one of his year-mates to no know his last name. Left at the castle with a note as an infant, Will knew almost nothing of his past. Now, it is the time of the Choosing, where master...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 16, 2010 | Picture Book
Trees and Wow -that about sums this one up. If you’re a teacher or a parent and you’re trying to give children a sense of wonder and a sense of appreciation for trees and nature, it’s going to be hard to do better than this one. The pictures are just...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 14, 2010 | Picture Book
Calabash Cat, a West African cat, sets out one day to find where the world ends. His adventures take him across a desert, grasslands, a jungle, and the ocean, until he finds what he is looking for. This story will keep kids thinking long after you have closed the...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 13, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
THE LAST NEWSPAPER BOY IN AMERICA by Sue Corbett: When you’re a guy turning twelve, you’re starting to look for your place in the world and Wil David of Steele, Pennsylvania thought he could count on two things for sure. He counted on following in his...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 13, 2010 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Move over, Holden Caulfield. There’s a new misanthrope in town, and his name is James Hoff, the teen protagonist in Nelson’s latest YA novel. James is a dark soul who is fed up with consumerism, mindlessness, abuse of the planet by humans, and humans, in...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 11, 2010 | Science Fiction
Science, medicine, ethical questions, and the age-old struggle of good vs. evil collide in the debut novel by Rune Michaels. Josh worships his older brother Max. He emulates his clothing, his taste in music, reading, and their favorite on-line role-playing game,...
