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Category: Non-Fiction

Review: Sequoyah by James Rumford

 

Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing, by James Rumford, translated into Cherokee by Anna Sixkiller Huckaby(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004)

 

Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing
by James Rumford, Cherokee translation by …

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Seeds of Inspiration: Books for Children and Young Adults about Wangari Maathai

'Seeds of Inspiration: Books for Children and Young Adults about Wangari Maathai' - Mirrors Windows Doors article

Wangari Maathai - photo credit: Martin RoweWhat better way to introduce MWD’s new theme, ‘Branching …

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Review – After Ghandi: One Hundred Years of Nonviolent Resistance by Anne Sibley O’Brien and Perry Edmund O’Brien

After Gandhi: One Hundred Years of Nonviolent Resistance, by Anne Sibley O’Brien and Perry Edmond O’Brien (Charlesbridge, 2009)

After Gandhi: One Hundred Years of Nonviolent Resistance
by Anne Sibley O’Brien and Perry Edmond O’Brien
(Charlesbridge, 2009)

 
An extraordinarily powerful …

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Review: Planting the Trees of Kenya by Claire A. Nivola

 

Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai, by Claire A. Nivola

Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai
by Claire A. Nivola
(Frances Foster Books; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008)

 
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Multicultural Children’s Book Day – Celebrating OSU Children’s Library Fund’s Photographic Picture Books

Today we are celebrating Multicultural Children’s Book Day! It’s a chance to revel in the vibrant cultural diversity that is out there waiting to be explored in children’s and YA literature – and for my celebration today I am launching a new series of posts highlighting photographic picture …

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Families Around the World by Margriet Ruurs and Jessica Rae Gordon

Families Around the World, by Margriet Ruurs, illustrated by Jessica Rae Gordon (Kids Can Press, 2014)

Families Around the World
by Margriet Ruurs, illustrated by Jessica Rae Gordon
(Kids Can Press, Canada, 2014)


A new addition to Kids Can Press’s Around …

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Review: Music Everywhere! by Maya Ajmera, Elise Hofer Derstine and Cynthia Pon

 

Music Everywhere! by Maya Ajmera, Elise Hofer Derstine and Cynthia Pon (A Global Fund for Children Book, Charlesbridge, 2014)

 

Music Everywhere!
by Maya Ajmera, Elise Hofer Derstine and Cynthia Pon
(A Global Fund for Children Book, Charlesbridge, 2014)

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Pedal It! How Bicycles are Changing the World, by Michelle Mulder

Pedal It! by Michelle Mulder (Orca Footprints, 2013)Pedal It! How Bicycles are Changing the World
by Michelle Mulder
(Orca Footprints, Orca Books (Canada), 2013)

This sounds a great book and was recently awarded the 2014 Information …

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