An illustrated description of walls around the world and their significance, from the Great Wall of China to the Berlin Wall.
Talking Walls
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Las Paredes Hablan: Cuentan Mas Historias
The award-winning Talking Walls and its sequel, Talking Walls: The Stories Continue, introduce young readers to different cultures and different issues around the world by telling the stories of walls and how they can hold a community together or separate it. Featured walls include the Great Wall of China, the murals of Diego Rivera, Nelson Mandela’s prison walls, a Holocaust memorial in Poland, Ndebele wall designs in South Africa, Hadrian’s Wall in England, and the Peace Lines in Belfast, Northern Ireland. These books will spark the curiosity of young readers as they learn about their world and its amazing diversity. Teacher’s guide available.
Humpty Dumpty
For hundreds of years, children have delighted in reciting the classic nursery rhyme of Humpty Dumpty’s fall. Over the centuries there have been many different interpretations, but some speculate that it was originally a riddle: “What could fall and break, but could not ever be repaired?” An egg is certainly one possible answer.
Talking Walls
An illustrated description of walls around the world and their significance, through the voices of children telling the histories of various walls in their communities from the Great Wall of China to the Berlin Wall.