Notable Books for a Global Society 2014
Sponsored by the IRAChildren’s Literature & Reading SIG
Presented by Karen Hildebrand
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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
Picture Books
The chickens build a wall
http://eerdword.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/q-why-did-the-chickens-build-a-wall/
http://www.eerdmans.com/common/pdf/ChickensBuildaWall_coloringpage.pdf
http://www.planetatangerina.com/en/authors/isabel-minhos-martins
Isobel Minhós Martins
http://www.planetatangerina.com/en/authors/isabel-minhos-martins
http://www.teachingbooks.net/pronounce.cgi?aid=15163
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca1ikQioetM
http://librarianinacandyshop.blogspot.com/2013/07/pancho-rabbit-and-coyote-by-duncan.html
http://duncantonatiuh.wordpress.com/
Resources for Pancho and the Coyote:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/06/illegal-immigration-childrens-book/2050115/
Set in Mauritania.
Tradition of the malafa.
http://www.kellycunnaneauthor.com/cultural-workshops/
http://www.ericwalters.net/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnL-sjNdLuk
Book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB2AuN8uqRE
http://www.ericwalters.net/novels/my-name-is-blessing/
http://creationofhope.com/
P A U L F L E I S C H M A N
Teacher’s guide: http://www.candlewick.com/book_files/0763646016.btg.1.pdf
Make a Matchbox Theater with your students.
http://www.paulfleischman.net/
Lenore Look andMeilo So
http://lenorelook.wordpress.com/books-3/
Hear the author discuss the book: http://annickpress.com/Man-with-the-Violin-The
Fiction
http://www.josannelavalley.com/about_mywork.html
http://hmhyoungreadersblog.com/teens/middle-grade/how-a-trip-to-china-inspired-the-vine-basket-by-josanne-la-valley/
http://weblog.uhrp.org/book-review-the-vine-basket-by-josanne-la-valley/
Tuscarora NativeReservation,New York State1975
Lewis Blake and George Haddonfield
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDUksKaJXwI
http://www.kathrynlasky.com/KK/Extra.html
http://www.fatimasharafeddine.com/index.html
http://www.lit-across-frontiers.org/fatima-sharafeddine-in-conversation/
A conversationWithFatimaSharrafeddine
http://www.hatbooks.com/
NovelInVerse
http://www.hatbooks.com/files/Language_Inside_Guide_FINAL.pdf
Teacher’s Guide: A Discussion, Writing, Activity & Service Guide
http://www.sylviawhitmanbooks.com/
Sylvia Whitman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_21eW9wrYe8
http://www.sylviawhitmanbooks.com/#!the-milk-of-birds
http://billkonigsberg.com/books/
http://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/teen-book-fest/ask-author-almost-anything-bill-konigsberg-author-openly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVFRlXhcMlg
Biography
Laban Carrick Hill
Clive Campbell, 1970’s – Hip Hop
http://robbie-robertson.com/news/
http://tundrabooks.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/legendsiconsrebels_teacherguide.pdf
Robbie Robertson
Poetry
http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/informationalpoems/
http://myaamiahistory.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/faqssalt/
http://www.helenfrost.net/
http://myaamiahistory.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/faqssalt/
Tula: Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, mid 1800’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vqPD0c_uN8
Non-Fiction
http://www.owlkidsbooks.com/Portals/0/docs/teachersGuides/WDWF-Q&A.pdf
http://globalnews.ca/video/914402/author-niki-walker-on-why-do-we-fight
http://nancyboflood.com/wp-content/uploads/cowboy-up-activity-guide.pdf
http://deborahellis.com/
http://deborahellis.com/looks-like-daylight/
http://bookdragon.si.edu/2013/11/28/looks-like-daylight-voices-of-indigenous-kids-by-deborah-ellis-foreword-by-loriene-roy/
http://www.triplenickle.com/
http://shelleypearsall.com/JumpInToTheSky_EG_WEB.pdf
(from the 2013 list; great companion novel with Courage Has No Color )
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