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Category: Poetry
IBBY Review: Roses Are Blue by Sally Murphy and Gabriel Evans
I Am Not My Disability: Outstanding Books For and …
Review: A Rainbow in My Pocket by Ali Seidabadi and Hoda Haddadi
A Rainbow in My Pocket
written by Ali Seidabadi, illustrated by Hoda Haddadi
(Tiny Owl Books, 2016 – first published in Persian by …
Revisited: Where the Steps Were by Andrea Cheng
Where the Steps Were
by Andrea Cheng
(Wordsong, 2008)
Where the Steps Were is a story told in verse by five third-grade students in an inner-city school, who all come under the empowering …
Escaping Conflict, Seeking Peace: Picture books that relate refugee stories, and their importance
This article was a presentation given at the 2012 IBBY Congress in London, first posted here and developed from a PaperTigers.org Personal View, “Caught up in Conflict: Refugee stories about and for young people“.
A bibliography with links to relevant websites is listed by title can be …
Revisited – Voice from Afar: Poems of Peace by Tony Johnston and Susan Guevara
Voice from Afar: Poems of Peace
written by Tony Johnston, illustrated by Susan Guevara
(Holiday House, 2008)
Every so often a book comes along that you know will stay with you for ever. Voice …
Keeping a Green Tree in your Heart: A Selection of Tree-Themed Poetry Books
To give the Chinese proverb in its entirety, ‘Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come’ – and to extend the metaphor (or revert it …
Review: I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail
I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail
Illustrated by Ramsingh Urveti, designed by Jonathan Yamakami
Tara Books, 2011
The glorious …
