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| Code | Name | Image | Price | Description | ||
| ALLM | A Life Like Mine: How Children Live Around the World | $24.95 | UNICEF Forward by Harry Belafonte Ages 8 & Up Based on the mission of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This describes from the point of view of the child, the lives of children from all over the world. | |||
| FEC | For Every Child | $16.95 | Unicef; Caroline Castle/ John Burningham Ages 4-8 In 1989, the United Nations formally adopted 54 principles that make up the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. For this picture book, the 14 declarations most relevant to children's everyday lives are retold in simple text, with double-page illustrations by different artists from around the world. Published in association with UNICEF with a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. | |||
| ITWWAV | If the World Were a Village | $15.95 | David Smith Ages: 8 & Up If the World Were a Village shows that if there were 100 people in the world that 22 would speak Chinese, 20 would earn less than a dollar a day, etc. | |||
| P | People | $12.95 | Peter Spier All Ages $12.95 A Glorious celebration of people everywhere that reminds us that each of us is unique deserving the respect and tolerance of others. In paperback only. | |||
| P8 | Portraits | $19.95 | Steve McCurry All Ages $19.95 Only photos of amazingly diverse and beautiful people from all over. It is mesmerizing. | |||
| D | Dreads | $19.95 | Francesco Mastalia Alfonse Pagano Alice Walker All Ages $19.95 Coffee Table Paperback One hundred duotone portraits present dread-heads from around the world, in all walks of life. Interviewed on location by the photographers, "jatta-"wearers wax philosophic about the integrity of their hair, and every stunning image confirms their choice. Alice Walker puts words to pictures, offering lyrical ruminations about her decision to let her own mane mat. | |||
| IBTSWG | It's Back to School We Go | $15.95 | Ellen Jackson Ages: 4-8 $15.95 It's Back to School We Go! First Day Stories from Around the World. | |||
| PBWY | Peace Begins with You | $8.95 | K Scholes/ R. Ingpen Ages: 4-8 In paperback only. Explains, in simple terms, the concept of peace, why conflicts occur, how they can be resolved in positive ways, & how to protect peace. | |||
| SOR | Story of Religion | $15.95 | Betsy & Giulio Maestro Ages: 6-12 For the billions of people who inhabit the earth, religion is an important part of culture & identity. Shows a basic introduction to faiths of the world. | |||
| SRATW | Street Rhymes Around the World | $9.95 | Jane Yolen Ages 3-10 In paperback only. A wonderful collection of chants and songs by children in 17 nations. | |||
| SOTW | Scripts of the World | $19.95 | Suzanne Bukiet Ages 8 & Up Five tales and their characteristic scripts take us through the origins of the written language around the world. Each story is Bilingual. | |||
| COL | Celebrations of Light | $16.00 | Nancy Luenn Ages: 8 and Up Hardcover only. The stunning art is what best describes the various festivals centered around light, celebrated by different cultures. | |||
| SA | Skin Again | $16.99 | Bell Hooks/Chris Raschka Ages 4-8 This visionary work by the creators of "Happy to Be Nappy" offers new ways to talk about race & identity, revealing that race matters, but only so much--it is what can be found beyond the skin that's the most important treasure. | |||
| TAM | Thanks a Million | $15.99 | Thanks a Million Grimes, Nikki Ages 5-8 Multiple Coretta Scott King-honored author Grimes teams up with Cabrera for this picture book that honors a wide range of human connections in poetry and pictures--from family to friendships to intergenerational relationships. | |||
| WFAOFL | World Folktales: Anthology of Folk Literature | $26.95 | Anita Stern Ages: 8 & Up An Anthology of Multicultural Folk Literature | |||
| DP | Dangerous Peace-Making | $18.95 | Meyer-Knapp, Helena Adult Modern wars are becoming easier to fight and harder to stop. In Dangerous Peace-Making, Meyer-Knapp offers an intelligent, exhaustively researched, and brilliantly argued analysis of complicated and often unpredictable factors that must be understood if one wants to understand how wars end. She presents case studies of wars in Rwanda, Bosnia, Ireland, Palestine, and South Africa and concludes with a chapter about justice, mercy, memory and peace. | |||
| TLOTTNGSFMC | The Lady of Ten Thousand Names: Goddess Stories from Many Cultures | $19.99 | Burleigh Muten Ages: 9 & Up The Lady of Ten Thousand Names: Goddess Stories from Many Cultures, from Egypt to Japan to Nigeria. | |||
| BIBIT | Black is Brown is Tan | $15.95 | Arnold Adoff Ages: 4-8 Up-dated from 1973 when it was the first interracial family depicted in a children's book. | |||
| TMG | Two Mrs. Gibsons | $8.95 | Toyomi Igus Ages 4-8 Daughter of an African- American father and Japanese mother fondly remembers growing up with her mother and father's mothers, each differently and equally caring | |||
| YBMIBY | You Be Me I'll Be You | $6.95 | Pili Mandelbaum Ages 3-6 Anna explores the questions and yearnings she has about her identity by "switching" skin color with her white father. The result is joyous and inspiring. |