This is a beautifully illustrated book from a Nigerian publisher. In it, we are introduced to a young Nigerian girl called Beem, and we follow her as she explores the continent of Africa, meets its people and animals, and visits its key geograp...
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When a new family moves in next door, Joe's mum explains that they are "asylum seekers". Joe hears that they are "silence seekers", especially as Mum adds that they need peace and quiet. When he sees a young boy from the family sitting disconso...
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Wherever we live in the world - whether our country is rich or poor - water is vital to our survival. This book follows the daily lives of six children from Peru, Mauritania, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Tajikistan and California and explores what wat...
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Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak
This book is about the children of Israel and Palestine. The well-known children's author Deborah Ellis presents their stories, based on interviews she did in the winter of 2002 with children aged 8 to 18.
In a rehabilitation center for dis...
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Flip and Flap, Waddle, Splash and Littlest are a group of young penguins discovering their wonderful world, only to find it is changing at the hands of the humans. However, there is hope in store. Their teacher, Old Wise, explains that humans a...
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Man has filled the planet with rubbish, and woken up the dinosaurs lying asleep under the surface of the Earth. They take over and clean up the mess, making man promise to look after the planet in future.
This storybook has a strong environm...
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This comprehensive handbook has a range of activities that can be used in nurseries, toddler groups and by childminders. There are twelve chapters divided into two main sections. The first focuses on various themes such as food, family and the ...
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This CD-ROM is a result of a teacher visit to Jamaica and a challenge from the Director of Culture to incorporate learning about Jamaica into the UK school curriculum. There are three or four lesson plans for each year group in KS2, each based ...
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This handbook introduces key global citizenship themes to early years teaching. The book includes five traditional folk tales, and ways they could be used to explore themes of identity and inclusion. The book is well presented, with the full st...
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This book of illustrated short stories introduces the wider world to young children. There are six stories, each aimed at a different primary age group. The stories show the lives of children in different countries, and illustrate problems they...
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Hot hippo desperately wants to live in the water. But the god of everything and everywhere told the animals to live on the land and the fishes in the sea. This is the story of how hot hippo came to live in the river instead of dry land.
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Schola's Story shows the life of a child growing up in Uganda. The story describes Schola's day, from getting up early and doing the chores, going to school, playing with her friends and going to bed. The book was written and edited by children...
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This illustrated storybook tells the life of three sisters: Nafula, Ajambo and Samanya. Their life seems unhappy until the lucky blue marble appears, and things start to look up. The book presents a down to earth portrait of life as a child in ...
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Alia Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her library has been a meeting place for those who love books. Until now. Now war has come, and Alia fears that the library - along with the thirty thousand books within it ...
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This glossy hardback book is one in a series of five to help explore the theme of children's rights with a younger audience. The book explores the right to an education, and why some children are unable to go to school. The book includes severa...
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This glossy hardback book is one in a series of five to help explore the theme of children's rights with a younger audience. This book explores the right all children have to receive good health care, and some of the reasons why this does not a...
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This glossy hardback book is one in a series of five to help explore the theme of children's rights with a younger audience. This book explores the right to a home, and some of the reasons why not all children have a home. The book includes sev...
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This glossy hardback book is one in a series of five to help explore the theme of children's rights with a younger audience. This book explores the right to live in safety, and some of the reasons why this does not always happen. The book inclu...
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This glossy hardback book is one in a series of five to help explore the theme of children's rights with a younger audience. This book explores the right of all children to express their opinions and to have a say in how they live their lives, ...
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Greedy zebra was busy eating on the day the animals threw away their drab skins for new ones. This is the story of how all the animals chose their clothing, except for gredy zebra, who had to take the left-over pieces.
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