Notable Books for aGlobal Society 2011
Karen HildebrandReading & Library Consultant
From The International Reading AssociationChildren’s Literature & Reading Special Interest Group
www.clrsig.org
What is your school district doing to promote
21st Century Learning Theme:
Global Awareness?
Booklists can be downloaded from the IRA website.
Drawing from the selection of quality global literature chosen for the Notable Books for a Global Society booklists, this book:
~explores key themes in global literature
~offers ideas, activities, and strategies for your K-12 English language arts classrooms
You will learn how to use global literature to:You will learn how to use global literature to:
~ Explore literary elements and at the same time develop students global awareness
~ Illustrate the diversity as well as the commonality at the heart of all stories and people
~ Promote students critical thinking about society, diversity, and their place in the global community
~ Extend students connections with literature to constructive activism and service learning
A book study possibility …
http://www.tcnj.edu/~childlit/involv/subs-form.html
Meet one or more criteria from this section
• Portray cultural accuracy and authenticity of characters in terms of: (a) physical characteristics (b) intellectual abilities and problem solving capabilities (c) leadership and cooperative dimensions(d) social and economic status
• Be rich in cultural details
Criteria for selection Part I :
• Honor and celebrate diversity as well as common bonds in humanity;
• Provide in-depth treatment of cultural issues;
• Include characters within a cultural group or between two or more cultural groups who interact substantively and authentically;
• Include members of a “minority” group for a purpose other than filling a “quota.”
Part IIMeet all criteria from this section
• Invite reflection, critical analysis, and response
• Demonstrate unique language or style
• Meet generally-accepted criteria of quality for the genre in which they are written
• Have an appealing format and be of enduring quality
PictureBooks
Cinco Puntos Press
Saltypie;A Choctaw JourneyFrom Darkness into Light
By Tim Tingle
Debbie Reese’s Blog
From: TeachingBooks.Net
Candlewick Press
Jeannie Baker
Celebrates the differences that makes up the diversity of world cultures and the elements that unite us, the bonds of family and the mundanities of every day life.
Candlewick Press
Mina Javaherbin
The unifying power of soccer
Abrams Publisher
Duncan Tonatiuh
Boyds Mills Press
By Roseanne Thong
Samsara – the Buddhist & Hindu wheel of life
For each book bought Jen will give a FREE Skype Author's Talk or 1/2 off an Author's School Visit.
Buy SEEDS OF CHANGE. Proceeds of your purchase are donated back to helping plant trees.
Lee and Low Books
Biography
Lee and Low Books
G.Neri
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981460,00.html
“CRIME: Murder In Miniature”
Sept. 19, 1994
“I hear a shotin the dead of night,the running awaywith plenty of fright,sirens out-loudof cops and meds,another young boywith a bullet in his head,day in and day outit's the same ole' thing,young men in the lifeof gangbanging, … “
http://www.gangstyle.com/poetry/
We all die someday... by Teddii
We all die someday..walk to church on-Sundays;drip water when it-rains;cry & pray..when things don't-change!;tear up at'a homies-grave..but party when we go to-
Raves..and do our hair all up in-braids;run from cops..when they do-raids;scatter as the bullets-spray!;cus we all die..-someday..//
http://www.gangstyle.com/poetry/
http://thebrownbookshelf.com/2011/02/02/day-2-randy-duburke/
NPR Interview with the author G. Neri:
http://www.leeandlow.com/p/yummy_radio.mhtml
You can find Greg Neri on FaceBook
Black Jack;The Ballad ofJack Johnson
Charles R. Smith, Jr.
Roaring Book Press
Fiction
Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
Arthur A. Levine Books
Schneider Family Book AwardYA Winner
Antony John
Dial Books
Little Brown Publisher
Jewell Parker Rhodes
www.ninthwardbook.com
Opportunities to support New Orleans and the Ninth Ward:~ The New Orleans Public Library~ Make It Right Foundation~ Red Cross~ Operation Kids’ Foundation
Clarion Books
Linda Sue Park
NationalGeographic
A former NBGS winner …
Google Lit Trip
Charlesbridge
Mitali Perkins
http://www.charlesbridge.com/client/client_images/perkinsbeapodcast.mp3
Interview:
Quick Facts:
*Official name: Union of Myanmar
Form of government: Military regime
Population Estimate (2009): 48,138,000
Capital: Nay Pyi Taw Official Language: Burmese
Official Religion: None Monetary Unit: Myanmar kyat Total area: 261,228 sq mi
http://www.bamboopeople.org/
http://www.bamboopeople.org/
“What's In A Name? Burma Vs. MyanmarYou may not find the country of Burma listed in some books printed after 1989. That year the military government changed the country’s official English name from “the Union of Burma” to “the Union of Myanmar.”
Although the United Nations switched to Myanmar, the USA, the UK, and Canada are among the nations who refused to recognize the new name.
As I’m writing this note, newspapers and magazines are also split. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and CNN use Myanmar, while the Washington Post and Time use Burma. For Bamboo People I chose to use Burma because in the Burmese language, "Myanma" is the written, literary name of the country, while "Bama" is the spoken name of the country.”
Best friends Tamanna and Yasmine cannot believe their good fortune when a school is set up in their Afghan village; however, their dreams for the future are shattered when the Taliban burns down the school and threatens the teacher and students with death.
Annick Press
The world of humanity is possessed of two wings: the male and the female.
So long as these two wings are not equivalent in strength, the bird will not fly . . .
—Abdu’l-Baha’i
Atheneum Books
Warriors in the Crossfire
By Nancy Bo Flood
Front Street Books
“Story is a powerful way to build compassion and bridge understanding between cultures. Story has the power to heal as well as teach.”
SaipanMarianaIslands
SaipanLargest island of the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
From Nancy’s website: www.nancyboflood.com/
The DreamerBy Pam Munoz Ryan
Scholastic Press
http://sparkleandspinstudio.blogspot.com/2011/02/dreamer-pam-munoz-ryan.html
Coming In2011FromMonicaBrown
Henry Holt
Candlewick Press
www.zoraandme.com/
Manjiro
Amulet Books
Emily Arnold McCully Rhoda Blumberg
Poetry
Margarita Engle
Henry Holt
• Author study of Margarita Engle
• Poetry Partners with 3 points of viewTopics like: Cuba
Women’s HistoryUsing Metaphors, i.e. fireflies
•Research Fredrika Bremer
•Writing letters (email, blog entries)
Extension Ideas:
Non-fiction
Based on a teacher, Don Elias Sanchez inHonduras
Kids Can PressAuthor Katie Smith Milway
http://www.thegoodgarden.org/
Calkins Creek
Houghton Mifflin
They Called ThemselvesThe KKK
By Susan CampbellBartoletti
Talks about her “weekend with the Klan”
Authors:Husband and Wife team
Marc AronsonMarina Budhos
Clarion Books
Google Lit Trips
Or other faves …Or other faves …
New York Times Top Ten Best illustrated Children's Books of 2010
Ruth was so excited to take a trip in her family's new car! In the early 1950s, few African Americans could afford to buy cars, so this would be an adventure.
But she soon found out that black travelers weren't treated very well in some towns. Many hotels and gas stations refused service to black people.
Daddy was upset about something called Jim Crow laws... Finally, a friendly attendant at a gas station showed Ruth's family The Green Book.
Feb. 12th is her birthday.Celebrate: Jacqueline Woodson DayBorn in Columbus, Ohio
Science geek Eddy Thomas can invent useful devices to do anything, except solve his bully problem. Eddy Thomas can read a college physics book, but he can’t read the emotions on the faces of his classmates at Drayton Middle School. He can spend hours tinkering with an invention, but he can’t stand more than a few minutes in a noisy crowd, like the crowd at the science fair, which Eddy fails to win.
When the local school crossing guard is laid off, Eddy is haunted by thoughts of the potentially disastrous consequences and invents a traffic-calming device, using parts he has scavenged from discarded machines..
Out of My MindSharon M. Draper
Atheneum 2010
by Judie Oron based on a true story
One girl’s harrowing trek from exile and slavery to hope in a new land.
Based on real events, Wuditu’s story mirrors the experiences of thousands of Ethiopian Jews.
S. D. Nelson is a member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe of the Dakotas.
René Colato Laínez
http:renecolatolainez.comImmigrant from El Salvador
Teaching Ideas on the LatinoImmigrant experience.
In a project on the Internet, he and children throughout Mexico and Argentina collaborated on the “stories” that make up the poetry in this book.
The combination of the kids’ naturally poetic language and Luján’s skills makes for revealing, funny and often moving little poems.
Jorge Lujan
My bunny understands me.When I’m sad she can tell right away.And though she walks on four feet
and she likes to bite,She’s nicer than the nicest people.
By Kyo Maclearand Isabelle Arsenault
Kids Can Press 2010
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