Using Books to Teach About the World {F-R-E-E- Download!}

Books are....

• Mirrors - helping to learn own culture and build personal identity
• Windows - offering a view into someone else's experience
• Doors - allowing the reader to enter the story and become part of another world

It is important to learn about oneself and others as well.

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Geography

• ·       Home In-Between
• ·        My Two Border Towns
• ·        The Sound of Silence
• ·        A New Home
• ·        A Walk in Paris
• ·        Two Worlds, One Heart
• ·        The Library Bus
• ·        Our Dreaming Place: the Arctic
• ·        Tomas and the Galapagos Adventure
• ·        Everybody Cooks Rice
• ·        City Shapes
• ·        The Gardner
• ·        Harlem Grown
• ·        I Like to Live in the City
• ·        When I Was Young in the Mountains
• ·        The Water Princess
• ·        Drum City
• ·        City Kid & Suburb Kid
• ·        City Streets are for People
• ·        Life on the Farm
• ·        Home in the Woods
• ·        Me, Toma, and the Concrete Garden
• ·        Arto’s Big Move
• ·        Look Where We Live!

Holidays

• ·        Bringing in the New Year
• ·        Carl the Christmas Carp
• ·        The Legend of Papa Noel
• ·        Shante Keys and the New Year Peas
• ·        Together for Kwanzaa
• ·        Under the Bodhi Tree
• ·        The Return of the Light
• ·        Festival of Colors
• ·        Dia de los Muertos
• ·        King for a Day
• ·        What do you Celebrate?
• ·        Let’s Celebrate!
• ·        Amal’s Eid
• ·        Tree of Cranes
• ·        Oskar and the Eight Blessings

Culture

• ·        My Fade is Fresh
• ·        Hot Hot Roti for Dada-ji
• ·        I Can Be All Three
• ·        Hana’s 100s of Hijabs
• ·        Mommy’s Khimar
• ·        Bubbie & Rivka’s Best-Ever Challah
• ·        Fry Bread
• ·        How to Wear a Sari
• ·        Rock Your Mocs
• ·        Saturday
• ·        Hair Love
• ·        Tofu Takes Time
• ·        Every Month is a New Year
• ·        Suki’s Kimono

Language

• ·        Words to Make a Friend
• ·        Luli & the Language of Tea
• ·        The Mexiglish Girl
• ·        Spanish is the Language of My Family
• ·        Spanish is My Superpower
• ·        Me, Too!
• ·        I Love Saturdays y Domingos
• ·        Gib-ber-rish
• ·        A 100,000 Welcomes
• ·        Do You Speak Fish?
• ·        Dylan’s Birthday Present
• ·        The Day Saida Arrived

Religion

• ·        Molly’s Pilgrim
• ·        This is the Church
• ·        Sky Sisters
• ·        God’s Dream
• ·        Come Sunday
• ·        Chik Chak Shabbat
• ·        The Proudest Blue
• ·        The Gift of Ramadan
• ·        Hats of Faith
• ·        Lailah’s Lunchbox
• ·        Salat in Secret
• ·        The Light Within You
• ·        Binny’s Diwali
• ·        Yaffa and Fatima Shalom, Salaam

Socio-Economic Status

• ·        Watercress
• ·        Miss Maggie
• ·        Those Shoes
• ·        A Place to Stay
• ·        Money Plan
• ·        Front Desk
• ·        The 100 Dresses
• ·        The One Day House
• ·        Free Lunch
• ·        A Different Pond
• ·        A Bike Like Sergio’s
• ·        Tight Times
• ·        Coat of Many Colors
• ·        The Cot in the Living Room
• ·        Uncle Willie & the Soup Kitchen

Family Structure

• ·        My Family, Your Family, Our Families
• ·        My Daddy is a Hero
• ·        My Perfect Family
• ·        All Are Welcome
• ·        Happy Together
• ·        Two is Enough
• ·        Blended Bree
• ·        Here and There
• ·        A Family Like Ours
• ·        Home for a While
• ·        Fred Stays with Me!
• ·        In Our Mother’s House
• ·        Visiting Day
• ·        A Family is a Family is a Family
• ·        Don’t Forget, God Bless Our Troops

Siblings

• ·        Sisters
• ·        My Brother is Away
• ·        Two is for Twins
• ·        Big Sister Little Sister
• ·        Beezus and Ramona
• ·        We But Me
• ·        What’s so Bad About Being an Only Child?
• ·        Being an Only Child is Wild
• ·        The Middle Child Blues
• ·        I Needed a Hug, Too
• ·        Allie All Along
• ·        Welcome to the Big Kids Club
• ·        Little Miss Big Sis
• ·        Just Me and My Little Brother
• ·        The New Small Person
• ·        I’ve Won, No I’ve Won, No I’ve Won

Food

• ·        Maddi’s Fridge
• ·        The Sandwich Swap
• ·        Yoko
• ·        Platanos Go with Everything
• ·        What’s That?
• ·        The Whole World Inside Nan’s Soup
• ·        My Food, Your Food, Our Food
• ·        Let’s Eat!
• ·        Magic Ramen
• ·        Dumplings for Lili
• ·        Kalamata’s Kitchen
• ·        The Lunch Thief
• ·        The Hunger Monster
• ·        Soul Food Sunday
• ·        Saturday at the Food Pantry

Homelessness

• ·        A Shelter in Our Car
• ·        Fly Away Home
• ·        Great Joy
• ·        Home
• ·        Still a Family
• ·        Towers Falling
• ·        Crenshaw
• ·        No Place Like Home
• ·        No Fixed Address
• ·        The Can Man
• ·        Just Under the Clouds
• ·        I See You
• ·        The Family Under the Bridge
• ·        A Duet for Home
• ·        Carry Me Home

Disabilities / Abilities

• ·        Catherine’s Story
• ·        A Sky-Blue Bench
• ·        Just Ask!
• ·        Compulsion Cloud
• ·        My Brain is a Racecar
• ·        Too Much!
• ·        I Talk Like a River
• ·        Words In My Hands
• ·        A Bird Will Soar
• ·        Kind of Spark
• ·        A Walk in the Woods
• ·        Remarkable Remy
• ·        Dark Cloud
• ·        Masterpiece
• ·        What Happened to You?
• ·        We’re All Wonders
• ·        When Charley Met Emma
• ·        Boy
• ·        Emmanuel’s Dream
• ·        Song for a Whale
• ·        My City Speaks
• ·        Roll With It
• ·        My Whirling Twirling Motor
• ·        When Things Get Too Loud
• ·        A Boy with No Words
• ·        Brilliant Bea

 

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