by Barb Langridge | Nov 7, 2009 | Picture Book
In the city of Gubbio Saint Francis finds all the doors locked up tight. Where is everyone? What is happening? It turns out they are being terrorized by a wolf. What can be done? The city leaders decide to fight the wolf. They send out their bravest knight, their army...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 7, 2009 | Picture Book
On a dark winter night, the Tub People are waiting “on a low wooden table before th fireplace.” The Tub Child is sleepy and wants to go to sleep but his mother counsels him to wait and is grandfather gives him a hook saying, “You might need this...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 7, 2009 | Picture Book
In the cozy world of the Tub People, they play ball, Grandma plants seeds and oh, how they love a parade. One day something unexpected happens. The Tub child finds someone under the radiator. Can it be Walter? He does not stir. He does not open his eyes. How can they...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 7, 2009 | Picture Book
The story opens at The End. They lived happily ever after! But why? And then what happened? This is a rollicking fairy tale told in reverse about a dragon, a princess, a knight, a giant, a huge tomato and some frightening bunnies. There’s more fun here than in a...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 7, 2009 | Picture Book
Uncle Dinkleschmidt agrees to buy three rubber balls for his toy store from a woman with a pointed hat. As she hands the balls over, she also hands a gold whistle to young Rudy. What would he do with a gold whistle? When his uncle leaves the shop, Rudy discovers that...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 7, 2009 | Picture Book
Young Slim is a rat, alone in the world with only a yo-yo, when Buster, the one-eyed cat meets him and tricks him into stealing from a rich chicken. As the crime goes down, Slim meets a mouse named Jim who befriends him and takes him to his house to meet his family....
by Barb Langridge | Nov 7, 2009 | Picture Book
With the brilliant paper engineering of Matthew Reinhart, the enchanting monsters drawn by Maurice Sendak and the scenario dreamed up by the imagination of the one and only Arthur Yorinks, this is a hilarious pop up book about a baby who wanders into a house of...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 7, 2009 | Picture Book
A young bug’s father gets hurt at work and has to take to his bed with casts on three of his legs and “bandages on his head.” The son, Jazper, sets out to get a job so they can pay the rent on their eggshell home. Jazper finds a job taking care of a...
by Barb Langridge | Nov 7, 2009 | Picture Book
“One morning, Buz, a bug, was eaten along with a spoonful of cornflakes.” And so it begins as Buz goes the wrong way in this body and finds himself caught. Yes, this boy has caught a bug or so the doctor tells him. The doctor gives him some pills....
by Barb Langridge | Nov 7, 2009 | Picture Book
Back in Old Victorian England there was the team of Gilbert and Sullivan and they created wonderful operas together. These operas brought a bit of light and fun into the somewhat dark and dismal lives of the times. Mr. Gilbert wrote the stories-or as Mr. Sullivan saw...
