by Barb Langridge | Mar 18, 2023 | Picture Book
A tender new story from the award-winning creator of Julián Is a Mermaid celebrates first-time camping, father-child bonding, and feeling at one with the universe. “We’re going camping, you and me.” “Where?” I ask. “The desert,” says Dad . . . “To shake hands with the...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 18, 2023 | Picture Book
Oh those dreary, rainy, gray days that leave us looking longingly out the window. On this particular gray day a young girl has a pup who needs to go. Off they venture into the rain to get the job done and along the way they discover, quite happily, a shop with all...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 18, 2023 | Non-Fiction
Have you ever stepped outside into your front yard and looked down to see honeybees buzzing from one white clover to another? Watching them might make you stop and wonder where do honeybees go when they’re done buzzing around the clover? What’s it like to...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 18, 2023 | Non-Fiction
An evocative picture book biography about the prolific life of Jackie Ormes, whose groundbreaking cartoons became some of the first empowering depictions of Black women in America! Jackie Ormes made history. She was the first Black woman cartoonist to be nationally...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 16, 2023 | Picture Book
Welcome a new friend to the farm with the #1 New York Times bestselling Little Blue Truck! Beep! Beep! Have you heard the news? There is someone new on the farm! All the animals are nervous and excited about meeting a new friend—what will he be like? Does he neigh...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 16, 2023 | Non-Fiction
Jovita dreamed of wearing pants! She hated the big skirts Abuela made her wear. She wanted to scale the tallest mesquite tree on her rancho, ride her horse, and feel the wind curl her face into a smile When her father and brothers joined the Cristero War to fight for...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 15, 2023 | Non-Fiction
Equal parts adventure and STEM, Rebecca E. F. Barone’s Race to the Bottom of the Earth: Surviving Antarctica is a thrilling nonfiction book for young readers chronicling two treacherous, groundbreaking expeditions to the South Pole―and includes eye-catching...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 15, 2023 | Picture Book
Hot diggity dog! Meet Pluto! The runt of a litter of eight planets. Pluto may not be the biggest or fastest planet to revolve around the Sun, but it has a unique story to tell. From the tale of how it was found by humans to its naming as a dwarf planet, it’s Pluto’s...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 14, 2023 | Non-Fiction
The inspiring true story of basketball phenom Tacko Fall—and his journey from West Africa to the NBA—will inspire young people to dream and do. Tacko Fall was always tall, even as a child, but he wasn’t always a slam-dunk star. On his first official day of training as...
by Barb Langridge | Mar 14, 2023 | Picture Book
A super-cool graphic picture book about a boy learning how to control his temper, by bestselling author Derrick Barnes. Bobby Beacon’s got fire flowing through his veins. And now he’s psyched to attend a new school that’ll help him get a better grip on his powers. But...
