The Island on Bird Street

The Island on Bird Street
Author: Uri Orlev
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1984
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780395616239

A novel about the experiences of a Jewish boy and his father during the Holocaust in Poland.

Reading Globally, K–8

Reading Globally, K–8
Author: Barbara A. Lehman
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2010-09-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1412973929

In Reading Globally, K-8, the authors make the case for why it is necessary to be globally literate and multiculturally aware in today's shrinking world, and they provide the tools teachers need to incorporate appropriate reading selections into primary and secondary school classrooms. By using books from or about other countries, teachers empower students to view the world in a more positive manner, enriching and broadening their students' lives, and ultimately preparing them for life in a global economy and culture. This reader-friendly resource guides teachers and reading programme coordinators in selecting quality books for their classrooms, incorporating global literature into different content areas, and facilitating the discussions that follow. Practical guidance is provided on how to: - Integrate the reading of global texts across the curriculum, with specific application to language arts, social studies, science, maths, and the arts - Locate and evaluate the authenticity and literary merit of potential books, avoiding those that depict stereotypes - Get started!-with an annotated list of children's books, samples of student work, and classroom vignettes from teachers.

Children's Books and Their Creators

Children's Books and Their Creators
Author: Anita Silvey
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 862
Release: 1995
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780395653807

Unique in its coverage of contemporary American children's literature, this timely, single-volume reference covers the books our children are--or should be--reading now, from board books to young adult novels. Enriched with dozens of color illustrations and the voices of authors and illustrators themselves, it is a cornucopia of delight. 23 color, 153 b&w illustrations.

Through the Eyes of a Child

Through the Eyes of a Child
Author: Donna E. Norton
Publisher: Merrill Publishing Company
Total Pages: 800
Release: 1991
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

In its seventh edition, "Through the Eyes of a Child: An Introduction to Children's Literature" continues to be a visually stunning, theoretically sound, comprehensive overview of children's literature. It focuses squarely on selecting and evaluating quality literature to share with children and guiding them to appreciate and respond to that literature. This edition features multicultural literature and young adult literature in every chapter, expanded coverage of biographies and informational books and over 100 new children's titles referenced throughout. A children's literature CD-ROM accompanies the book and contains bibliographic information for thousands of titles, making it even easier to share quality literature with children and adolescents.

Holocaust

Holocaust
Author: Liz Rothlein
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
Total Pages: 82
Release: 1997
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1557342105

Provides reproducible materials to reinforce facts and concepts related to the Holocaust.

Cinema of the Other Europe

Cinema of the Other Europe
Author: Dina Iordanova
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2003
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781903364611

Cinema of the Other Europe: The Industry and Artistry of East Central European Film is a comprehensive study of the cinematic traditions of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia from 1945 to the present day, exploring the major schools of filmmaking and the main stages of development across the region during the period of state socialism up until the end of the Cold War, as well as more recent transformations post-1989. In encouraging a more inclusive and comprehensive understanding of European cinema, much needed for the new unified Europe `enlarged' towards its Eastern periphery, this book maps out the interactions, key concerns, thematic spheres and stylistic particularities that make the cinema of East Central Europe a vital part of European film tradition. Cinema of the Other Europe is thus a timely appraisal of Film Studies debates ranging from the representation of history and memory, the reassessment of political content, ethics and society, the rehabilitation of popular cinema, and the rethinking of national and regional cinemas in the context of globalisation.