Children's Peace Books
Children learn by modeling the behavior that they are taught by example or by exhortation. Books are a way to raise topics that are funny, serious and instructive. They also show children other lives which may be very different than their own. Children learn peace and non-violence by seeing and reading about those whose lives have been guided by those impulses.
Each book below may be ordered directly from Quaker Books by clicking on the blue link in the title. The catalog may be ordered from quakerbooks.org.
Does your library have these peace books?
If
not, why not donate one or two for everyone to use ......
No
Hitting - BY KAREN KATZ
Toddlers will love learning to say no to hitting - and screaming,
squeezing, and yelling - and yes to fun with this lift-the-flap book
that makes it easy to find a painless way to steer little ones toward
more acceptable behavior. Grosset and
Dunlap 2004 14 PP. Paper
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
- BY DEBORAH
HOPKINSON, ILLUSTRATED BY JAMES RANSOME.
Sweet Clara is a young seamstress and slave who transfroms her
dreams of freedom into reality by piecing together a Freedom Quilt with
a map of the Underground Railroad. Ages 6 and up. Random House 1993
32 PP. Paper.$6.99
Peace
Begins With You BY KATHERINE SCHOLES, ILLUSTRATED BY ROBERT INGPEN.
Award-winning author Katherine Scholes succeeds in explaining clearly
and simply how and why peace has a place in all our lives. Sierra
Club 1994 38 PP. Paper.
$9.99
Selavi,That
Is Life: A Haitian Story Of Hope.
BY YOUME LANDOWNE The true story of Selavi ("that
is life"), a small boy who finds himself homeless on the streets of
The
War. BY ANAIS VAUGELADE. The Blues and
the Reds have been at war for so long, neither side can remember why
they started fighting. Prince Fabien of the Blues is faced with his
father's disapproval, trying to end the war, and the guilt of a terrible
tragedy. Armed only with a pen, paper, and his wits, Prince Fabien
bravely accomplishes what years of war have not -- and becomes an
unlikely hero. First Avenue 2007 32 PP. Paper. $6.95
Henry
Climbs a Mountain
-BY D B JOHNSON "[In this book] Johnson tackles [Thoreau's] philosophy
on civil disobedience... Henry the bear sets off to retrieve one of his
shoes from the cobbler. But before he can pick it up, he is jailed for
nonpayment of taxes. While there, Henry uses crayons and his imagination
to create for himself a new shoe, trees, and a mountain path to explore.
[On this] mountain, he meets an unnamed, barefoot traveler. Although the
stranger's comments indicate that he is an escaped slave seeking
freedom, his fur is the same color as Henry's.. Henry gives the traveler
his shoes, then returns . to his cell. . Johnson's text does a fine job
of explaining the essential conflicts without oversimplifying them."-SLJ
HM 2003 32 PP. Cloth. $15.00
Ain't Nobody A Stranger To Me - BY ANNE
GRIFALCONI, ILLUSTRATED BY JERRY PINKNEY. Two Caldecott Honor recipients
bring you the incredible journey of one man, as he recounts the story of
his passage on the Underground Railroad to his granddaughter. Although
he and his family found troubles during their escape, he found that
folks, black & white, "helped lift us up when we was down." How, then,
could he ever turn his back on another human being? "He talks to her of
slavery times, when he carried apple seeds in his pocket and dreamed of
planting them in his own soil. Then he escaped with his wife and baby
(the grandchild's mama), and he describes how a brave white man, Quaker
James Stanton, helped them cross the Ohio River
to freedom. ..." - Hazel Rochman. Jump at the Sun 2007 32 PP. Cloth.
$16.99
Muslim Child:
Understanding Islam Through Stories And
Poems. BY
RUKHSANA KHAN, ILLUSTRATED BY PATTY GALLINGER. "With
eight stories about Muslim life from such places as the United States,
Pakistan, Canada and Nigeria, Muslim Child: Understanding Islam Through
Stories and Poems by Rukhsana Khan offers insight into the five pillars
of Islam (belief, prayer, fasting, charity and pilgrimage to Mecca) and
demonstrates Muslim presence around the globe. Throughout, sidebars by
Irfan Alli explain Muslim terms and traditions; sayings from the prophet
Muhammad punctuate the text. A pronunciation guide, a samosa recipe and
instructions for making `Eid Mubarak' cards to mark the end of Ramadan
round out the volume." -Publishers Weekly. Albert Whitman 2002 104
PP. Cloth. $15.95
The
Table Where Rich People Sit -BY BYRD BAYLOR, ILLUSTRATED BY PETER
PARNALL Beautiful pictures and words gently teach about proper use of
the world's resources and about what it truly means to be rich. Simon
& Schuster 1998 32 PP. Paper $6.99