by Mike Costanzo | Sep 14, 2009 | Picture Book
There is such a sense of excitement in this beautiful book as all the animals are hurrying to something. What is all the fuss about? Where is everyone going? This is a fun picture book or great as a board book, too.
by Mike Costanzo | Sep 14, 2009 | Picture Book
Let’s go hunting for Easter eggs! We’ll lift the flap and see what is hiding underneath. Oh, all sorts of brightly colored wonderful springtime things are waiting for us.
by Barb Langridge | Sep 7, 2009 | Picture Book
If you know a young child who is going be in the hospital or maybe will be visiting someone there, it’s helpful to be able to prepare them for what they will see and do there. Mister Rogers’ gentle, reassuring voice walks you through what you might expect...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 7, 2009 | Picture Book
As an Army wife, moving my children from continent to continent, I always took time to say goodbye to the house where we lived as we left. I would walk with my children from room to room and say, “Goodbye Dining Room where we had our Thanksgiving” or...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 7, 2009 | Humor
The fourth book in the Wimpy Kid series is a real joy. Jeff Kinney keeps the laughter coming with Greg Heffley’s summer vacation–which turns out to be no real vacation at all. Greg recounts the grisly story of the muddy hand which can travel mysteriously...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 7, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
What a fabulous book! So often our middle school and high school boys are looking at the world around them and trying to figure out how to be a man and how to chart their course for success. This is the story of Danny, half Mexican and half white, who is spending the...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 4, 2009 | Realistic/Contemporary Fiction
Memories start to come back to PVT Matt Duffy as he wakes up in an Army hospital in Baghdad. He has a brain injury from battle and his memory is not all that reliable. He keeps trying to remember what happened in that alley. Something is haunting him Bits and pieces...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 4, 2009 | Picture Book
Remember the old lady who swallowed the fly? Well, meet the old monster who swallowed the tick. He swallows a whole lot of things that make him go scritchy scratch. What will solve the problem? Rhythmic and bright and with a bit of suspense as we wonder what will...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 4, 2009 | Humor
He has done it again. This is a hilarious recounting of the the history of the backpack with an unfortunate caveman named Roscoe. For the present day there is a backpack wearer who pulls off a successful volcano eruption concocted in his backpack just in time to win...
by Barb Langridge | Sep 4, 2009 | Picture Book
Wow! Look at all the wonderful fall seeds and flowers and gourds Lois Ehlert used to concoct this delightful story. The mice want to throw a party and have no intention of inviting the creepy cat! Lois Ehlert uses the richness of nature to create her illustrations...
