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,...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 11, 2010 | Fiction
Lily thinks she remembers picking up a gun when she was 4 years old. Bang! Her mother is dead. Now ten years have passed. Her abusive father doesn’t answer the many questions that she has about her mother. Did her mother really abandon Lily? Did she shoot her...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 11, 2010 | Non-Fiction
There are some youngsters who just love to know facts about anything and everything. This is a great resource for them. There is information about space, science, technology,animals, the human body, and even dinosaurs. Tell me, is Jupiter shrinking? “Were...
by Barb Langridge | Jan 11, 2010 | Picture Book
Meet Claude a wonderful dog who is about to receive his Christmas presents. He gets a pillow, a rubber mouse and a dog blanket. How wonderful. Meet Bummer another wonderful dog who is all alone and has nothing. Present by present Claude gives his newly received gifts...
