by Barb Langridge | Apr 16, 2024 | Non-Fiction
A single piece of seaweed buoys a fascinating ecosystem in this nonfiction picture book from award-winning creators Barb Rosenstock and Katherine Roy. From bryozoans and snails to shrimps, eels, swordfish, and whales, the Sargasso Sea provides a home to countless...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 16, 2024 | Non-Fiction
Through lyrical text filled with concrete processes and facts, readers will build and tend to a compost bin. From creation of the “compost cake” to curing and, finally, using the compost, budding composters will discover what it takes to have a successful bin―as well...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 15, 2024 | Non-Fiction
A stunning anthology licensed in partnership with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, We Are Here celebrates 30 of the most inspiring Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in U.S. history. There are more than 23 million people of Asian and Pacific Islander...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 15, 2024 | Picture Book
What will it take to get Ernest to smile? Find out in Newbery Honor author Polly Horvath’s picture book debut. From the day he’s born, Ernest has few complaints. His family is lovely; the world has a lot to offer. He’d like there to be more elephants around, but...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 15, 2024 | Picture Book
A tender picture book about a veteran’s PTSD and a family’s love for each other—on good days and hard days—from award-winning creators Winsome Bingham and Rahele Jomepour Bell Momma wears combat boots, a camouflage jacket, and a U.S. ARMY tag on her chest. She is a...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 15, 2024 | Non-Fiction
A baby owl is rescued and rehabilitated, and builds her own family, in this tender and wise picture book. In the spring of 2019, ecologist Carl Safina and his wife, Patricia, took in little Alfie, a bedraggled Eastern Screech Owl chick who quickly became part of their...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 15, 2024 | Non-Fiction
A charming series inspired by the Forest School movement, teaching young children how to engage with nature from season to season. A Field Guide to Spring is a pocket-sized introduction to spring, inspired by the Forest School movement. Building on children’s natural...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 15, 2024 | Non-Fiction
A lunch box filled with snails and spiders and eggs?! That is not MY lunchbox! Whose could it be? Join in on a surprising camping trip and discover the favorite meals of all your favorite forest creatures–from the wood frog (who loves a lunch of spiders and...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 15, 2024 | Picture Book
Follow boxes of books through the supply chain, as they travel from truck to ship and then across the ocean to a bookstore (and to you)! Every here has a there, every up has a down, and every far has a near. Hop on board a big cargo ship as books printed in Asia head...
by Barb Langridge | Apr 15, 2024 | Picture Book
What reaches everywhere and never tires? Pulling on feathers and galaxies alike? Holding the mighty Milky Way together? Gravity, of course! Told in lyrical, riddling first-person narrative, Gravity boasts of its essential role in life as we know it–from the...
