The 2010 Skipping

Stones Honor Awards!

Best Multicultural and International, Nature and Ecology Books, and

Teaching Resources

Multicultural & International Awareness Books

First Come The Zebra by Lynne Barasch, illustr. Lynne Barasch. Lee & Low Books; www.leeandlow.com. Ages 7-10. ISBN 978-1-60060-365-5

A Lion’s Mane by Navjot Kaur, illustr. Jaspreet Sandhu. Saffron Press; www.saffronpress.com. Ages 5-10. ISBN 978-0-9812412-0-3

Anh’s Anger by Gail Silver, illustr. Christiane Kromer. Plum Blossom Books; www.parallax.org. Ages 5-10. ISBN 978-1-888375-94-7

An International Book about Kenyan Life

A book about self-esteem and multiculturalism

A Picture book

• Shows a Buddhist meditation method on how to control Anger

Multicultural and International

• Big Bear Hug by Nicholas Oldland, illustr. Nicholas Oldland. Kids Can Press; www.kidscanpress.com. Ages 5-11.

ISBN 978-1-55453-464-7• Rocks Not Happy In Sacks by Gilbert Walking

Bull and Sally Moore, illustr. Tom Novak. RedGravel Ink; www.redgravelink.com. ISBN 978-1-57579-375-7

• Finding Lincoln by Ann Malaspina, illustr. Colin Bootman. Albert Whitman & Co.; www.albertwhitman.com. Ages 6-11. ISBN 978-0-8075-2435-0

Big Bear Hug by Nicholas Oldland, illustr. Nicholas

Oldland. Kids Can Press;

www.kidscanpress.com. Ages 5-11.

ISBN 978-1-55453-464-7

Multicultural and International

Nasreen’s Secret School by Jeanette Winter, illustr. Jeanette Winter. Beach Lane Books; www.simonandschuster.com. Ages 6-11.

ISBN 978-1-4169-9437-4 For a Girl Becoming by Joy Harjo, illustr.

Mercedes McDonald. University of Arizona; www.vapress.arizona.edu. Ages 8-adults.

ISBN 978-0-8165-2797-7 The Land of Expression by David & Mutiya

Vision, illustr. Ignacio Alcantara. Vision Works; www.visionworkspub.com. Ages 7-15. ISBN 978-0-9816254-0-9

Book Appreciating Multiculturalism >>>About a girl’s life in Afghanistan (below)

Multicultural and International

• Wanting Mor by Rukhsana Khan. Groundwood Books; www.groundwoodbooks.com. Ages 11-adults. ISBN 978-0-88899-858-3

• Simeon’s Story: An Eyewitness Account of the Kidnapping of Emmett Till

by Simeon Wright. Lawrence Hill Books; www.chicagoreviewpress.com.

Ages 11-18. ISBN 978-1-5565

A Bilingual Spanish Book

Children of War: Interviews

Muchacho: A Novel for 15 & up

Multicultural and International

Rene Has Two Last Names/Rene tiene dos apellidos by Rene Colato Lainez, illustr. Fabiola Graullera Ramirez. Arte Publico; www.artepublicopress.com. Ages 7-10. ISBN 978-1-55885-530-4

Muchacho by Louanne Johnson. Random House, www.randomhouse.com/kids.

Ages 15-90. ISBN 978-0-375-86117-8 Libertad by Alma Fullerton. Fitzhenry &

Whiteside; www.fitzhenry.ca. Ages 11-16. ISBN 978-1-55455-106-4

About Guatemalan Refugee children

Multicultural and International

• Mao and Me: The Little Red Guard by Chen Jiang Hong. Enchanted Lion Books; www.enchantedlionbooks.com. Ages 9-17. ISBN 978-1-59270-079-0

• My Name Is Henry Bibb: A Story of Slavery and Freedom by Afua Cooper. Kids Can Press; www.kidscan.com. Ages 11-17. ISBN 978-1-55337-813-6

• Children of War: Voices of Iraqi Refugees by Deborah Ellis. Groundwood Books; www.groundwoodbooks.com. Ages 13-90. ISBN 978-0-88899-907-8

International Book on Cambodian Genocide

• Half Spoon of Rice by Icy Smith, illustr. Sopaul Nhem. East West Discovery Press; www.eastwestdiscovery.com.

Ages 9-13.

Mao and Me: A Pictorial biography

Nature and Ecology Books• Where Else in the Wild? More Camouflaged

Creatures Concealed and Revealed by David M. Schwartz and Yael Schy, photos by Dwight Kuhn. Tricycle Press; www.tricyclepress.com.

Ages 6-11. ISBN 978-1-582-46283-7• In the Trees, Honey Bees by Lori Mortensen,

illustr. Cris Arbo. Dawn Publications; Ages 5-10 www.dawnpub.com. ISBN 978-1-58469-115-0

• Waste (Science Q&A Series) by Melanie Ostopowich. Weigl Publishers. www.weigl.com. Ages 8-14. ISBN 978-1-60596-064-7

Nature and

Ecology

• Picture book

Nature and Ecology

• Science (Question

and Answers) WASTE

Nature and Ecology Books

• Discover the Desert: The Driest Place on Earth by Kathy Ceceri, illustr. Samuel Carbaugh. Nomad Press; www.nomadpress.net. Ages 10-17. ISBN 978-1-934670-46-0

• The Man Who Flies with Birds by Carole Garbuny Vogel and Yossi Lesham.

Kar-Ben Publishing; www.karben.com. Ages 11-18. ISBN 978-0-8225-7643-3

Nature and Ecology

• This book has many illustrations and activities

Teaching Resources:

• Rethinking Multicultural Education: Teaching for Racial and Cultural Justice, editor: Wayne Au, Rethinking Schools; www.rethinkingschools.org. Ages 15-adults. ISBN 978-0-942961-42-3

• What’s on Your Plate? (A 76 min. DVD ) by Catherine Gund, prod. Catherine Gund and Tanya Selvaratnam. Bullfrog Films; Grades 4-11. wwwbullfrogfilms.com. ISBN 1-59458-901-1

Teaching Resources