Author: Sook Nyul Choi
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395616260
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A Korean American girl's third grade class helps her newly arrived grandmother feel more comfortable with her new life in the United States.
Halmoni and the Picnic
Author: Sook Nyul Choi
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395616260
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A Korean American girl's third grade class helps her newly arrived grandmother feel more comfortable with her new life in the United States.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395616260
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
A Korean American girl's third grade class helps her newly arrived grandmother feel more comfortable with her new life in the United States.
Yunmi and Halmoni's Trip
Author: Sook Nyul Choi
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 9780395811801
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When she goes to Korea with her grandmother, Yunmi looks forward to visiting relatives she has never seen, but she also worries about whether Halmoni will want to return to New York.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 9780395811801
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When she goes to Korea with her grandmother, Yunmi looks forward to visiting relatives she has never seen, but she also worries about whether Halmoni will want to return to New York.
One Family
Author: George Shannon
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1466894032
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A celebration of diverse families plus a clever 1-10 counting element in this unabridged board book edition of One Family. Just how many things can "one" be? One box of crayons. One batch of cookies. One world. One family. From veteran picture book author George Shannon and artist Blanca Gomez comes a playful, interactive book that shows how a family can be big or small and comprised of people of a range of genders and races.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1466894032
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
A celebration of diverse families plus a clever 1-10 counting element in this unabridged board book edition of One Family. Just how many things can "one" be? One box of crayons. One batch of cookies. One world. One family. From veteran picture book author George Shannon and artist Blanca Gomez comes a playful, interactive book that shows how a family can be big or small and comprised of people of a range of genders and races.
Year of Impossible Goodbyes
Author: Sook Nyul Choi
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547348746
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
This autobiographical story tells of ten-year-old Sookan and her family's suffering and humiliation in Korea, first under Japanese rule and after the Russians invade, and of a harrowing escape to South Korea.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547348746
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
This autobiographical story tells of ten-year-old Sookan and her family's suffering and humiliation in Korea, first under Japanese rule and after the Russians invade, and of a harrowing escape to South Korea.
Girls Hold Up this World
Author: Jada Pinkett Smith
Publisher: Cartwheel Books
ISBN: 9780439087933
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Relates how girls are unique individuals, possessing self-esteem and discipline, and able to work with other girls to make the world a better place.
Publisher: Cartwheel Books
ISBN: 9780439087933
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Relates how girls are unique individuals, possessing self-esteem and discipline, and able to work with other girls to make the world a better place.
The White Giraffe
Author: Lauren St John
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
ISBN: 1444002104
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The first book in the heart-warming White Giraffe series by Lauren St John, featuring the African adventures of Martine and her magical white giraffe. When tragedy strikes on a winter's night in England, Martine is sent to live with her grandmother on a game reserve in South Africa. Her wild, beautiful new home is riddled with secrets, but lonely Martine finds comfort in the legend of a white giraffe and in mysterious Grace, who believes Martine has a powerful gift. Defying her grandmother by entering the reserve alone, Martine is plunged into a world of danger, mystery and adventure. Who can she trust? And how far will she go to save the only friend she has ever known?
Publisher: Orion Children's Books
ISBN: 1444002104
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The first book in the heart-warming White Giraffe series by Lauren St John, featuring the African adventures of Martine and her magical white giraffe. When tragedy strikes on a winter's night in England, Martine is sent to live with her grandmother on a game reserve in South Africa. Her wild, beautiful new home is riddled with secrets, but lonely Martine finds comfort in the legend of a white giraffe and in mysterious Grace, who believes Martine has a powerful gift. Defying her grandmother by entering the reserve alone, Martine is plunged into a world of danger, mystery and adventure. Who can she trust? And how far will she go to save the only friend she has ever known?
How to Grow a Young Reader
Author: Kathryn Lindskoog
Publisher: Shaw Books
ISBN: 0877884080
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
In an age of electronic games, TV, videos, and the Internet…You can raise a book lover. Reading opens up a lifetime of learning and delight to children. In How to Grow a Young Reader, Kathryn Lindskoog and Ranelda Mack Hunsicker offer suggestions for creating a reader-friendly home, truths about how literature strengthens character development, and helpful strategies for nurturing a love of reading in any child. Includes a helpful guide to over 1,800 books.
Publisher: Shaw Books
ISBN: 0877884080
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
In an age of electronic games, TV, videos, and the Internet…You can raise a book lover. Reading opens up a lifetime of learning and delight to children. In How to Grow a Young Reader, Kathryn Lindskoog and Ranelda Mack Hunsicker offer suggestions for creating a reader-friendly home, truths about how literature strengthens character development, and helpful strategies for nurturing a love of reading in any child. Includes a helpful guide to over 1,800 books.
Across Cultures
Author: Kathy A. East
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031309456X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Compiled by two experienced librarians, Across Cultures introduces you to more than 400 recent fiction and nonfiction multicultural resources for preschool through grade 6 and encourages you to make literature about diversity an integral part of your program of instruction. Arranged in thematic groupings (Identity and Self-Image, Family and Friends, Traditions, Exploring the Past in Diverse Communities, for example), this lively volume links diverse peoples, themes, and issues. It presents both annotations and practical advice on programming strategies. Connections are made to projects, graphic organizers, and activities.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031309456X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Compiled by two experienced librarians, Across Cultures introduces you to more than 400 recent fiction and nonfiction multicultural resources for preschool through grade 6 and encourages you to make literature about diversity an integral part of your program of instruction. Arranged in thematic groupings (Identity and Self-Image, Family and Friends, Traditions, Exploring the Past in Diverse Communities, for example), this lively volume links diverse peoples, themes, and issues. It presents both annotations and practical advice on programming strategies. Connections are made to projects, graphic organizers, and activities.
Second Helpings
Author: Robin Currie
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313078920
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Silly foods, sweets, and foods from other countries are some of the features of this delicious resource. Building on the concepts offered in the acclaimed Mudluscious (Libraries Unlimited, 1986), this delightful volume focuses on the ever-popular topic of food, with an emphasis on activities that span the curriculum and offer opportunities for both written and oral expression. Original stories, songs, chants, and other learning activities are provided. Grades K-3.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313078920
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Silly foods, sweets, and foods from other countries are some of the features of this delicious resource. Building on the concepts offered in the acclaimed Mudluscious (Libraries Unlimited, 1986), this delightful volume focuses on the ever-popular topic of food, with an emphasis on activities that span the curriculum and offer opportunities for both written and oral expression. Original stories, songs, chants, and other learning activities are provided. Grades K-3.
Yellow Light
Author: Amy Ling
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781566398176
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Yellow Light asks forty world-renowned and newly emerging artists such as novelists C. Y. Lee and Maxine Hong Kingston: playwright David Henry Hwang and filmmaker Christine Choy: and hip hop and rap artists Jamez Chang and Tou Ger Xiong about their sense of an Asian American identity, their intended audience, and the genesis and purpose of their creative works. Providing interviews, photos, short biographies, personal essays, and artistic samples-including works of fiction and poetry, plays, visual art, and music-for each contributor, Yellow Light is the first book to present the words behind the words, images, and sounds of Asian American cultural production.
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781566398176
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Yellow Light asks forty world-renowned and newly emerging artists such as novelists C. Y. Lee and Maxine Hong Kingston: playwright David Henry Hwang and filmmaker Christine Choy: and hip hop and rap artists Jamez Chang and Tou Ger Xiong about their sense of an Asian American identity, their intended audience, and the genesis and purpose of their creative works. Providing interviews, photos, short biographies, personal essays, and artistic samples-including works of fiction and poetry, plays, visual art, and music-for each contributor, Yellow Light is the first book to present the words behind the words, images, and sounds of Asian American cultural production.