Theme: tolerance

Friends: True Stories of Extraordinary Animal Friendships

By Book Importer | Published: September 26, 2011

What makes a camel friends with a Vietnamese pig?  Or a wild polar bear with a sled dog?   In a young preschool book, Catherine Thimmesh makes us wonder at the truth and mystery of unlikely animal friendships.  Because the stories behind these friendships are true, not contrived, they not only give readers insight into animals, [...]

Descriptors: International, Nonfiction, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , » Leave a comment

Hound and Hare

By Book Importer | Published: August 15, 2011

Hounds and hares are like cats and mice. At least, that’s the way it is in Great Bone, a little village beside the river. Harley Hare and Hugo Hound see each other at school every day, and they’re interested in the same things. But they never talk to each other. Why? Because the Hare and [...]

Descriptors: Europe, Fantasy, Germany, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , , , , » Leave a comment

The Sandwich Swap

By Book Importer | Published: April 4, 2011

Lily and Salma are best friends. They play together and stick together through thick and thin. But who would have ever thought that ordinary peanut butter or plain old hummus could come between them? Lily and Salma don’t quite understand each other’s tastes, but does that mean they can’t be friends? They understand far better [...]

Descriptors: Jordan, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9), Realistic Fiction » Other Themes: , , , , » 1 Comment

With Love

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

A collection of stories based on the author’s experiences with chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania over a period of almost forty years.

Descriptors: Africa, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Nonfiction, Primary (ages 6-9), Short Stories, Tanzania » Other Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment

I Am I

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

Two small boys in warrior garb peer at each other across a deserted landscape. Each is suspicious of the other; each is proud and boastful. And so, an argument breaks out that grows bigger and bigger, until it threatens to consume them and everything around them.

Descriptors: Fantasy, Ireland, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Other Themes: , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Child of Dandelions

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

The river of jubilant people alarmed Sabine as they bobbed along Allidina Visram Street in Kampala….The dark faces drew closer. Women in bright gomesi and headscarves danced, and bare-chested men punched their fists into the air, chanting, “Muhindi, nenda nyumbani! Indian go home.”Sabine felt she was drowning in their cries.In August 1972, President Idi Amin [...]

Descriptors: Africa, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Uganda, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , » 1 Comment