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.
Sadako
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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.
What Makes Us Human
“This illustrated riddle introduces children to language’s impact on human culture and history”–
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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”–
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.
Boys Don’t Fry
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.
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.
The Town Musicians of Bremen
The Sleeping Beauty
