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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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Review: Maya Saves the Day, Trouble with Magic, and The Vampire Boy – 3 Early Reader ‘Hole Books’ from Duckbill

3 'hOle Book' early readers from Duckbill (India) - The Vampire Boy; Maya Saves the Day; and Trouble with Magic

Maya Saves the Day
written by Meera Nair, illustrated by Priya Kuriyan

Trouble with Magic
written …

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Happy Chinese New Year! Gung Hay Fat Choi! Xin Nian Kuai Le!

Happy Chinese New Year 2015 from Mirrors Windows Doors

Gung Hay Fat Choi! Xin Nian Kuai Le! Happy Year of the Sheep/Ram/Goat!

So how are you celebrating? Here are some of my favourite children’s books for Chinese New Year:

The …

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Review: The Year of the Dog by Grace Lin

The Year of the Dog, by Grace Lin (Little, Brown & Co., 2006)

The Year of the Dog
by Grace Lin
(Little, Brown & Co., 2006)

 
This is Grace Lin’s first novel and she wrote it because ‘this …

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Review – The Great Race: The Story of the Chinese Zodiac, by Dawn Case and Anne Wilson

The Great Race: The Story of the Chinese Zodiac - written by Dawn Casey, illustrated by Anne Wilson (Barefoot Books, 2006)

The Great Race: The Story of the Chinese Zodiac
written by Dawn Casey, illustrated by Anne Wilson
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Feature Article and Q&A: Jainal Amambing

MWD Feature Article and Q&A with Jainal Amambing

As well as being an acclaimed artist in his native Malaysia, Jainal Amambing has won a string of international awards for his illustrations for his self-authored children’s books, including most recently a Green …

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Review: 15 Things Not to Do with a Baby, by Margaret McAllister and Holly Sterling

 
15 Things Not to Do with a Baby, written by Margaret McAllister, illustrated by Holly Sterling (Janetta Otter-Barry Books, Frances Lincoln, 2015) 

15 Things Not to Do with a Baby
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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 …

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