We Share A Story 2007:

An International Art/Literacy Connection

INFORMATION
A Life Like Mine / UNICEF
New York: DK Pub., 2002.
Children Just Like Me / Barnabas & Anabel Kindersley
New York: DK, 1995.
Wake Up, World! A Day in the Life of Children Around the World / Beatrice Hollyer
New York: Henry Holt, 1999.
Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions from Around the World / Selby Beeler, pictures by G. Brian Karas
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
Sidewalk Games Around the World / Arlene Erlbach, pictures by Sharon Holm
Brookfield: Millbrook Press, 1997.

A Suitcase of Seaweed and Other Poems / Janet S. Wong
New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 1996.

FOLKLORE


The Empty Pot / Demi
New York: H. Holt, 1990.

When Ping admits that he is the only child in China unable to grow a flower from the seeds distributed by the Emperor, he is rewarded for his honesty.


Anansi and the Moss-Covered Rock / Eric Kimmel
New York: Holiday House, 1988.

Anansi the Spider uses a strange moss-covered rock in the forest to trick all the other animals, until Little Bush Deer decides he needs to learn a lesson.

Peace Tales: World Folktales to Talk About / Margaret Read MacDonald
Hamden: Linnet Books, 1992.

A collection of folktales from cultures around the world, reflecting different aspects of war and peace.

Mightier than the Sword: World Folktales for Stong Boys / Jane Yolen
San Diego: Harcourt, 2003.
FICTION

The Pumpkin Runner / Marsha Diane Arnold, pictures by Brad Sneed
New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1998.

An Australian sheep rancher who eats pumpkins for energy enters a race from Melbourne to Sydney, despite people laughing at his eccentricities.

The Conch Bearer / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Brookfield: Roaring Brook Press, 2003.

In India, a healer invites twelve-year-old Anand to join him on a quest to return a magical conch to its safe and rightful home, high in the Himalayan mountains.

Journey to the River Sea / Eva Ibbotson
New York: Dutton Children's Books, 2001.

Sent with her governess to live with the dreadful Carter family in exotic Brazil in 1910, Maia endures many hardships before fulfilling her dream of exploring the Amazon River.

The Gold-Threaded Dress / Carolyn Marsden
Cambridge: Candlewick Press, 2002.

When Oy and her Thai American family move to a new neighborhood, her third-grade classmates tease and exclude her because she is different.
A Single Shard / Linda Sue Park
New York: Clarion Books, 2001.

Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.

Listening for Lions / Gloria Whelan
New York: HarperCollins, 2005.

Left an orphan after in influenza epidemic in British East Africa in 1919, thirteen-year-old Rachel is tricked into assuming a deceased neighbor's identity to travel to England, where her only dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital.