Valerie Bolling‘s and Maine Diaz‘s Let’s Dance is a whirlwind of flying, stomping, spinning, leaping, somersaulting kids from around the globe showing moves from one of their country’s traditional dances. Diaz captures the pure joy of movement in her cartoon character’s whole bodies. An American breakdancer is upside down with excitement with the music and…
Ways to Find Home: stories of migration features books for children about migration of some kind. As author Rosanne Parry writes in A Wolf Called Wander, “Migration is the heartbeat of the world.”
Texas Council of Teachers of English Language Arts ConferenceJanuary 24, 2015 with writers Terry Farish, Lyn Miller-Lachmann, and J.L. Powers “Our books, our presentations, and our reading guides are birthed from our long-termexplorations of war. We seek to support children and teens to grow as global citizens, deeplyconnected to issues of war, peace, consequences of…
Across the world, families are crossing borders in search of a resting place where their children can be safe and go to school.
My Giveaways Continue on this late August day. My theme is books about our immigrant neighbors. Some of the books tell stories set in the homelands of families now in the U.S. It’s meeting immigrant families here in my state that has led to read books to help me understand their cultures. Here is one:…