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Age: 1st-3rd grade
Although Tricia Ann is constantly reminded of her race and ordered not to participate in certain aspects of daily life, she finds refuge in the public library. A helpful introduction to American segregation in the 1950s with captivating watercolor.
Although Tricia Ann is constantly reminded of her race and ordered not to participate in certain aspects of daily life, she finds refuge in the public library. A helpful introduction to American segregation in the 1950s with captivating watercolor.
Age: 1st-3rd grade
Basra the librarian is determined to save the books of her Iraqi library before war burns the building down. Due to her diligence and the help of friends, she is able to save the books until peace comes back to her land.
Plot based with wonderful and bold illustrations
Basra the librarian is determined to save the books of her Iraqi library before war burns the building down. Due to her diligence and the help of friends, she is able to save the books until peace comes back to her land.
Plot based with wonderful and bold illustrations
Age: 3rd-5th grade
Due to war in Somali, Hassan must make a new home in America but all he sees is a colorless world. Once he is able to open up about home to a school translator, he begins to adjust more to a new life with his family.
Due to war in Somali, Hassan must make a new home in America but all he sees is a colorless world. Once he is able to open up about home to a school translator, he begins to adjust more to a new life with his family.
Age: 2 years - 4 years
Pete loves his shoes no matter what color they pick up along the way. His shoes turn from white to red to blue to brown back to white and wet. Great for call and response and singing. The end explicitly states a moral which is ridiculously obnoxious even if it is meant as satire.
Remember: prepare a melody for Pete's shoe song. Would be lovely with a guitar.
Pete loves his shoes no matter what color they pick up along the way. His shoes turn from white to red to blue to brown back to white and wet. Great for call and response and singing. The end explicitly states a moral which is ridiculously obnoxious even if it is meant as satire.
Remember: prepare a melody for Pete's shoe song. Would be lovely with a guitar.
Age: baby-preschool
Quite obviously perfect for bedtime, a world of animals help display the many ways quiet exists in our world including lollipop quiet, top of the roller coaster quiet, and car ride at night quiet. The soft artwork (colored pencil over paint [maybe?]) is easy on little, sleepy eyes.
Quite obviously perfect for bedtime, a world of animals help display the many ways quiet exists in our world including lollipop quiet, top of the roller coaster quiet, and car ride at night quiet. The soft artwork (colored pencil over paint [maybe?]) is easy on little, sleepy eyes.
Age: 4th-5th grade
Rose Blanche's curiosity carries her to a concentration camp nearby her house where she proceeds to deliver food to the starving victims. When the allies arrive, she is accidentally shot and killed.
While the perspective of war is surely a kid's, the unidentified death of Rose must be inferred by an older audience.
Rose Blanche's curiosity carries her to a concentration camp nearby her house where she proceeds to deliver food to the starving victims. When the allies arrive, she is accidentally shot and killed.
While the perspective of war is surely a kid's, the unidentified death of Rose must be inferred by an older audience.
September 12th: We Knew Everything Would Be All Right
Masterson Elementary Student, Masterson Elementary Students
Age: Preschool-1st grade
Written and illustrated by a first-grade class in Kennett, Missouri, these children reflect on how the world remains the same after September 11th. Even though bad things did happen, good things continue to happen.
May be more for the enjoyment of adults because kids may not want to see pictures that other kids drew or hear a story that other kids wrote.
May be good as a supplemental story but not by itself. What about the people in New York whose lives really were changed after September 11th? What about Muslim-Americans who have received prejudicial treatment after September 11th?
Written and illustrated by a first-grade class in Kennett, Missouri, these children reflect on how the world remains the same after September 11th. Even though bad things did happen, good things continue to happen.
May be more for the enjoyment of adults because kids may not want to see pictures that other kids drew or hear a story that other kids wrote.
May be good as a supplemental story but not by itself. What about the people in New York whose lives really were changed after September 11th? What about Muslim-Americans who have received prejudicial treatment after September 11th?
Age: 1st grade-4th grade
A group of New Yorkers decide to save a forgotten about fireboat. When September 11th strikes, the Fireboat is there to help deliver water to the work-heavy fireman on land.
A delightful blend of nonfiction factual detail (parts of the fireboat, history of the fireboat) with an uplifting story about a group of people that come together to save history and save the present.
A group of New Yorkers decide to save a forgotten about fireboat. When September 11th strikes, the Fireboat is there to help deliver water to the work-heavy fireman on land.
A delightful blend of nonfiction factual detail (parts of the fireboat, history of the fireboat) with an uplifting story about a group of people that come together to save history and save the present.
Age: 2nd-4th grade
The chickens in the itty-bitty coop are having a hard time figuring out what big thing emerged from small chicken's egg. Poor Chicken Big doesn't feel like an elephant or a squirrel or an umbrella OR a sweater. After he saves their eggs from a fox the small chickens decide that "only one thing could be so smart, so kind, so warm, and so brave" -- a chicken!
A slight take on Henny Penny, these chickens don't quite have all their eggs in a basket, making hasty assumptions that exclude Chicken Big. Eventually, his appearance is overlooked by his acts of caring.
The chickens in the itty-bitty coop are having a hard time figuring out what big thing emerged from small chicken's egg. Poor Chicken Big doesn't feel like an elephant or a squirrel or an umbrella OR a sweater. After he saves their eggs from a fox the small chickens decide that "only one thing could be so smart, so kind, so warm, and so brave" -- a chicken!
A slight take on Henny Penny, these chickens don't quite have all their eggs in a basket, making hasty assumptions that exclude Chicken Big. Eventually, his appearance is overlooked by his acts of caring.