by Barb Langridge | Dec 15, 2009 | Picture Book
Kristyn Crow illus by David Catrow 978-0399247354 Okay, first there was Raymond, so he’s the oldest. Then there was Lee-that’s me. Then came Kate so she made three and she’s the youngest and the cute one. Ray can do all kinds of things because...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 15, 2009 | Picture Book
Three little Tasmanian devil pups are waiting for their mum to come back from her foraging. They love the things she brings back for them. Just like Sarah, Percy and Bill in Martin Waddell’s Owl Babies, these three wait and wait and wait. But these three decide...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 15, 2009 | Picture Book
Big Bear and Little Bear have nothing to do. They go off for a walk and eventually find a stick. The stick can draw a line and the line becomes a ladder which they use to climb to the moon and the stars. This is a magical story about the power of your imagination and...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 15, 2009 | Picture Book
This little fox cub is an adventurous little guy and one day he wanders far from home and finds a goose. He jumps at her and frightens her off leaving one white egg left uncared for. Fox knows what to do and sits on the egg to keep it warm. When the egg hatches, the...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 15, 2009 | Picture Book
The Duchess of Whimsy has great joie de vivre and the Earl of Norm is well, normal. Or at least that is how it appears at the beginning of our tale. Now the Duchess’ father insists that she invite this ordinary person, the Earl, to her parties to foster...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 15, 2009 | Picture Book
Simon the baker is disheartened because everything he touches falls flat. He was once a happy, successful baker and then his two partners ran off with the money and Simon closed his shop and moved away to a new town where no one knew him. All the while he had been a...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 15, 2009 | Picture Book
When the mothers are in the room, Bootsie Barker appears to be a perfectly well-behaved young lady but the minute they leave the room, the real Bootsie emerges and her playmate knows she is in big trouble. Bootsie becomes that tyrannical child who just wants her own...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 15, 2009 | Picture Book
Louise Cheese is a girl who dreams big. More than anything she wants to look like a big cheese. Her parents are the kind of people who don’t care how they look so they don’t share her “vision” and in this case her “vision” is...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 15, 2009 | Picture Book
“A little girl offers to take care of her busy mother for a day. She helps Mom put on makeup, takes her shopping, cleans the house just the way she likes it, and much more. Somehow, though, Mom ends up more tired and frazzled than usual. . . . “Maybe I...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 15, 2009 | Fantasy
Nine-year-old Anna was a baby when Mellwyn found her in the roots of a willow tree. Now the High Willow calls to her, but Mellwyn forbids her to go there. Anna is a child of nature, at home with birds and trees, and that nature calls her, until she cannot deny her...
