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Population, Consumption and The Global Economy
This inter-disciplinary resource is one of four teacher's guides based on David Suzuki's film, "Force of Nature". It's focus is on the challenges resulting from the rapid growth of the human population and the corresponding increase in consumption...
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The Lunch Thief
This book poignantly deals with the issues of poverty, hunger and malnutrition. The main character does not have access to nutritious lunches and so makes the choice to steal lunches from those around him. One particular victim discovers what...
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This Child, Every Child
This book examines the rights that children are guaranteed under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The author allows readers to experience the lives of children in poor countries and draws awareness to the striking disparity...
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Mama Panya's Pancakes: A Village Tale From Kenya
The author creates a Kenyan version of the popular children’s book Stone Soup. In this story a woman is headed to the market with her son to spend her meager wages on ingredients to make pancakes for supper. Along the way amid her son’s...
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Talking About What You Eat
When experiencing hunger, people often do not consider the impact that the food they choose can have on their bodies. This book provides the framework for examining a healthy diet by beginning to explore whether the food they choose is providing...
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The Secret River
A young girl’s father’s business of selling fish is failing and she seeks out the advice of the wisest person in the forest to help her find fish to support her family and her village. The young girl heads out into the forest and discovers...
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The Goodbye Cancer Garden
A young girl is told that her mother has cancer. As she asks questions about her mother’s recovery, she is told that hopefully her mother will be better by pumpkin time. This inspires the young girl to plant her own garden, and the book...
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The Lorax
The now remorseful Once-ler, our faceless, bodiless narrator, tells the story himself. Long ago this enterprising villain chances upon a place filled with wondrous Truffula Trees, Swomee-Swans, Brown Bar-ba- loots, and Humming-Fishes. Bewitched by the...
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The Great Kapok Tree
According to Publisher's Weekly, this book combines illustrations that reveal a naturalist's reverence for beauty with a myth-like story that explains the ecological importance of saving the rain forests. The text is not a didactic treatise, but a simply...
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If The World Were A Village
First published to wide acclaim in 2002, this eye-opening book has since become a classic, promoting "world-mindedness" by imagining the world's population, all 7+ billion of us, as a village of just 100 people. Now the book has been newly revised with...
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Weslandia
What do the children you know usually do when school is out for the summer? Go crazy with boredom? Head poolside with friends? Plan a self-sufficient civilization with its own staple food crop? That is precisely how Wesley decides to spend his summer...
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What Does Peace Feel Like?
This uniquely illustrated book offers an answer to the question, “What Does Peace Look Like?” The answers are provided by students from an international school in Rome and convey images of peace through the eyes of a child. The...
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Where Once There Was a Wood
This uniquely illustrated picture book explores the abundance of creatures that once inhabited a natural area before its conversion to a housing development. The text is suited for young readers but the concepts are appropriate for more advanced...
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Whoever You Are
This book effectively delivers a powerful message that despite all of the differences that people may have, we are all the same deep down. The author explains that there are children all over the world who may look different, live in different...
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Something Beautiful
This book begins with a young girl reflecting on the “ugliness” she sees when looking around her inner city neighborhood. In her attempt to find something positive within this urban landscape, she polls those around her on the things...
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Henry’s Freedom Box
The books tells the true story of Henry Brown, a slave who mailed himself to freedom. After watching his family be sold as slaves, Brown visits an abolitionist who figures out a way to protect Henry from the impending slave auction. He...
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Sky Tree
This book encourages students to look at the natural world around them through a different lens. Text and pictures are used to follow the journey of a single tree throughout an entire year. The author weaves thoughts and emotions into the text...
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The Name Jar
Unhei has just arrived with her family from Korea and is starting school. Her name is pronounced Yoon-hye, which means grace, but she feels awkward about it after some teasing on the school bus. She decides to choose a North American name and her classmates...
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Marianthe’s Story
The author presents two equally moving themes in Marianthe's story, the first explores her arrival to America and the second involves an explanation of why she came. In her first days at school Mari struggles with English until she realizes that...
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One Well: The Story of Water on Earth
"Without water, nothing can survive." The urgent conservation message in this clear, handsome, oversized picture book is rooted in the book's theme that all water on earth is connected and that "the water you drank today may have rained down on the Amazon...
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