STAND UP and SING! Pete Seeger, Folk Music, and the Path to Justice Written by Susanna Reich, Illustrated by Adam Gustavson Foreword by Peter Yarrow “If you despair, what happens to the many, many people like myself who look to…
Category: Peace
Kathleen Burkinshaw and Joyce Moyer Hostetter Talk About #MGGetsReal
Thank you Pirate Tree for inviting us to your blog. Kathleen Burkinshaw: Joyce Moyer Hostetter and I are part of a marketing effort with three other middle grade authors. We are #MGGetsReal and our theme is Real Life = Real…
THE WORLD IN A SECOND
Take one second, just one, and imagine all the events happening to all the many people living in all the different countries around the world. In this award-winning picture book, each double-page presents an illustration that shows a place and…
THE SEAGOING COWBOY, and a surprise link to Heifer International
World War II had just ended. Families in Europe were starving. Many were homeless. Farmers had lost their livestock, their fields, even the seeds needed to replant. THE SEAGOING COWBOY describes in simple, effective words and illustrations the relief program,…
J. L. Power’s AMINA named 2016 USBBY Outstanding International Book
AMINA, (Through My Eyes series), published in Australia, a story set in Somalia, has been recognized by USBBY – United States Board on Books for Young People – as one of the top international books for middle-grade readers. In this…
The 2015 Skipping Stones Honor Awards
For 27 years the non-profit multicultural children’s magazine Skipping Stones has offered young readers a journey around the world without their ever having to board an airplane. Founded in 1988 by educator Arun Toke, the quarterly magazine offers articles for…
Peace, Bugs, and Understanding by Gail Silver and Youme Nguyen Ly
I have to admit a religious bias here (words that I can barely imagine ever writing) but I heard a very liberal minister give a series of sermons a few years ago about just this Buddhist strategy for learning how…
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Celebration of Books, New & Old
This month, Black History Month, we celebrate books by and about African- Americans, old and young, who have been leaders, artists, musicians, teachers, activists, and courageous citizens. Last month as a nation we celebrated the life, work, and words of…
A Cat’s View of Palestine: Deborah Ellis does it again
You know, if somebody just told me the premise of this book (“American girl dies suddenly and finds herself reincarnated, with all her memories intact, as a cat living in Palestine”) I would have thought, That is too cheesy for…
NEVER SAY A MEAN WORD AGAIN !!
NEVER SAY A MEAN WORD AGAIN, A TALE FROM MEDIEVAL SPAIN Written by Jacqueline Jules and illustrated by Durga Yael Bernhard What could be more universal than name-calling and fighting – between children or adults? What could be harder to…