A young Malaysian boy enthusiastically assists his grandmother prepare their Lunar New Year dinner, all the while learning about the history of their traditional cuisine.
Boys Don’t Fry
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Tadpoles
On a rainy morning, a father and son bond over a walk through a field full of freshly formed ponds teeming with tadpoles.
Czarna Ksiazka (Polish Edition)
Grandma, Where Will Your Love Go? / Abuela, ¿adónde Irá Tu Amor? (Spanish Edition)
A grandmother assures her granddaughter that her love will always surround the young girl, even when she is no longer physically present.
Annie And The Old One
A Navajo girl unravels a day’s weaving on a rug whose completion, she believes, will mean the death of her grandmother.
Sadako
Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
Planting Hope: A Portrait Of Photographer Sebastião Salgado
As a young boy, Sebastiao Salgado loved exploring his parents’ farm in the forests of Brazil, always dreaming of what might lie beyond his view. When he went away to school, he met Lelia, who showed him how to use a camera. As he looked through the lens, Sebastiao realized he could use photography to capture how the world fits together.
Sebastiao used his pictures to tell the stories of people who might not otherwise be seen. But after witnessing too much destruction, he put away his camera and returned to his childhood home. The land was in ruins.
So Sebastiao and Lelia decided to rebuild the rainforest and photograph the beauty of the world to save it. Through art and activism, they would show that everyone was responsible for caring for the planet and that hope endures if we take action.
This book is part of the Worlds of Words Global Reading List for 2023/24.
The Hare-Shaped Hole
Hertle and Bertle were always a pair, though one was a turtle and one was a hare.
They were utterly buddies, and best friends forever, and whenever you looked, you would find them together… until quite unexpectedly… the end came. When Hertle disappears for good, Bertle can only see a Hertle-shaped hole where his friend should be. He pleads with it, get angry with it, but the hole still won’t bring his Hertle back. It seems like hope is lost… until Gerda the kindly bear finds him.
She explains that he must fill the hole with his memories of Hertle. And slowly… Bertle begins to feel a little bit better.
This book is part of the Worlds of Words Global Reading List for 2023/24.
Brighter Than The Sun
“After the loss of her mother, high school junior Soledad finds herself struggling to balance classes and her new job in California to support her family in Tijuana, Mexico, in this thoughtful story about identity, immigration, and family”–
Salsa Lullaby
“Parents put their young child to sleep with the help of some music and dancing”–