Our Holiday Countdown is nearly to an end. What fun it has been to send to readers many of our favorite books and art. Soon our holiday attentions will turn to the New Year. NAVAJO YEAR, WALK THROUGH MANY SEASONS invites you to step into contemporary Navajo life in the desert. For the Navajo people,… Read more »
Nancy Bo Flood
December Holiday Countdown – Day 2
WE ARE ALL BORN FREE: THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN PICTURES is a magical book that effectively introduces to children the concept that everyone on this planet, wherever we live, whoever we are, everyone has rights that should never be taken away. Illustrations are by artists from many different countries who have co-operated… Read more »
Family Love, Family Traditions
In this new picture book, MARISOL MCDONALD DOESN’T MATCH, Monica Brown shares invaluable lessons about being part of a bi-racial, bi-cultural and bi-ethnic family. Illustrations by Sara Palacios are bright, energetic and wonderfully different. A bonus includes a brief interview with Monica. (Children’s Book Press, 2011) Marisol McDonald is teased about being different – sometimes… Read more »
The Beauty of Family
BEAUTY BESIDE ME, STORIES OF MY GRANDMOTHERS SKIRTS by Seraphine Yazzie, Navajo, is a delightful weaving of images and words that express the pleasure of “being with grandma.” Baje Whitethorne’s watercolors illustrate each page with details that add humor plus cultural information. BEAUTY BESIDE ME is bilingual – both in Navajo and English – which… Read more »
Animal Friendships
These books speak to the powerful friendships that can happen between amazing animals and amazing people. SOLDIER BEAR written by Bibi Dumon Tak was translated from the Dutch by Laura Watkinson this year. Simple but fanciful illustrations were created by Philip Hopman. What an incredible and (mostly) true bear story! During WW II when Germany… Read more »
Amazing Animals!
CAN WE SAVE THE TIGER? by Martin Jenkins, illustrated by Vicky White (Candlewick 2011) If you haven’t seen this book yet, beware. The tiger looks as if it could walk right off the cover. This book provides a marvelous overview of a variety of endangered species with engaging illustrations by Vicky White. Young readers can pick… Read more »
Following My Paint Brush by Dulari Devi
FOLLOWING MY PAINT BRUSH is the true story of Dulari Devi, a domestic worker who became an artist in the Mithila style of folk painting from Bihar, in eastern India. Her childhood was doomed to be a life of unchanging hard work and no education – not one day of school. But Dulari refused to… Read more »
