by Barb Langridge | Dec 14, 2025 | Picture Book
Caldecott Honorees Jarrett and Jerome Pumphrey deliver heart, hope, and holiday cheer in this magical companion to The Old Truck and The Old Boat. On winter nights, an old sleigh delivers firewood, bringing warmth and light to a small town. But small towns get bigger...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 14, 2025 | Picture Book
From author and disabled parent Lucy Catchpole, this gentle and accessible picture book celebrates a wonderful part of one child’s life: her mother’s wheelchair. I have a tricycle. Daddy has a big car. And Mama has a Mama Car. Mama’s wheelchair can take...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 14, 2025 | Picture Book
A Kirkus Reviews Best Picture Book of 2025! • The growth of a tree and of a child parallel each other in this exquisitely constructed die-cut picture book about our nestedness in the natural world. I am a seed. I grow bigger and bigger each day. I’m starting to become...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 14, 2025 | Picture Book
Join Emmie, a clever inventor living in her attic kingdom, as she battles a mischievous interloper with her ingenious creations, discovering that true friendship can emerge from even the most unexpected challenges. The Rube Goldberg-meets-David Macaulay art style...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 14, 2025 | Picture Book
Perfect for kids aged 4-8 comes a stunning picture book about persistence, being creative in the garden, and adapting to a new place. When Amina moves from the Caribbean to a new snowy home, she misses growing her favorite foods. There are no coconut trees to climb,...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 14, 2025 | Picture Book
Last Stop on Market Street meets We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga in this “staggeringly lovely” (BCCB, starred review) picture book about a young boy who learns the Cherokee lesson of gadugi—how working together and helping each other makes the whole community stronger....
by Barb Langridge | Dec 10, 2025 | Picture Book
Like Goodnight Moon and Time for Bed, this lyrical and soothing picture book from an award-winning author/illustrator team is sure to become a bedtime favorite. Sometimes bedtime feels like a dark cave in the gloomy woods—like it’s about to be you and no one...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 10, 2025 | Picture Book
Food, family, love, and laughter make for the perfect recipe in this sweet picture book from acclaimed author Shauntay Grant. Taking place over the course of a summer day, we follow a young girl as she and her family gather at her nana’s house for a get-together...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 10, 2025 | Picture Book
A lyrical ode to the warmth, comfort, and traditions of tea drinking, from award-winning author Adib Khorram and Caldecott Honor and the APALA winner Hanna Cha Tea is a plant. Tea is a ceremony. But most of all, tea is love. Whether it’s part of an elaborate...
by Barb Langridge | Dec 10, 2025 | Picture Book
A touching story of the friendship between a young boy and his elderly neighbor, and how that boy helps jog the man’s disappearing memory Caius spends summer mornings on his neighbor’s porch, and although Mr. Johnson doesn’t remember things as well...
