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Branching Across the World: Trees in Multicultural Children’s Literature
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Category: MWD theme – Trees
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 …
Interview – Jerdine Nolen
Award-winning author Jerdine Nolen‘s picture books often tell stories that blend fantasy and realism in an unsettling way that delights young readers and fires their imaginations, from her first book Harvey Potter’s Balloon Farm, which was made …
Interview: Author Trish Cooke
Trish Cooke is the award-winning author of such acclaimed and enduring picture books as Full, Full, Full of Love and So Much!, which was recently included in UK book list ‘The 50 Best Culturally Diverse …
The Life of Trees and the Tree of Life: An Annotated List of Multicultural Non-Fiction Picture Books About Trees
Interview: Author Mitali Perkins
Mitali Perkins is the acclaimed author of such books as the middle-grade Jane Addam’s Award Honor Book Rickshaw Girl, which was included in New York Public Library’s 2013 list of ‘100 Great Children’s Books‘, and …
Review: Non-Fiction Photographic Story ‘Amoako and the Forest’
Amoako and the Forest
written by Deborah Cowley, photos by Kathy Knowles
(OSU Children’s Library Fund, Canada, 2008)
Amoako, …
Review: Sequoyah by James Rumford
‘The Spirit of the Baobab Tree: Bridge to a Forgotten Past’ by Dionne Champion
The Spirit of the Baobab …
Review: Tiger Boy by Mitali Perkins, illustrated by Jamie Hogan
Tiger Boy
written by Mitali Perkins, illustrated by Jamie Hogan
(Charlesbridge, 2015)
Mitali Perkins‘ latest novel Tiger Boy is beautifully crafted, the …
