by Maya Thiagarajan Here’s a question for you: What percentage of recent American college graduates have read the following American classics? To Kill A Mockingbird The Great Gatsby To be honest, I don’t have an accurate answer for you, but I’m willing to guess that the percentage would be quite high. These are books that … Continue reading #INDIAKIDLIT – Does India need its own Literary Canon?
#INDIAKIDLIT – Why why? And other questions for Indian children’s books
by Shalini Srinivasan Unlike a lot of my own readers, my reading journey was – and continues to be – fairly uneven. I read Are You My Mother? at the recommended age (4ish, if you’re wondering) and met Enid Blyton and then Moby Dick (much abridged and with false editorializing from my father) and proceeded … Continue reading #INDIAKIDLIT – Why why? And other questions for Indian children’s books
#INDIAKIDLIT – Why I retell old Indian stories for the young
by Roopa Pai The Vedas and Upanishads for Children - by Roopa Pai (2019) / The Gita for Children - by Roopa Pai (2015) Some stories stand the test of time. The core themes of Shakespeare’s plays, for instance, are recognizable tropes in modern film and theatre across the world, and his words have passed … Continue reading #INDIAKIDLIT – Why I retell old Indian stories for the young
#WORLDKIDLITMONTH – September 2022 – Slices of Indian Children’s Literature Served Up Over Time – #INDIAKIDLIT
by Karthika Gopalakrishnan India is a country of multitudes, made up of over a billion lives that intersect across lines of class, culture, language, and tradition, to coalesce into a thriving, proud, and fascinatingly curious whole. Composed of individual states, some of which are more populous than Brazil while others have roughly the same population … Continue reading #WORLDKIDLITMONTH – September 2022 – Slices of Indian Children’s Literature Served Up Over Time – #INDIAKIDLIT
Simbi: the free eBook platform for world literature for kids
by Barb Reid, Primary School Teacher-Librarian, United World College of Southeast Asia - East Campus, Singapore Simbi and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) At the May 2022 Asian Festival of Children's Content (AFCC) in Singapore, there was a panel with publishers from different countries discussing how they supported the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), … Continue reading Simbi: the free eBook platform for world literature for kids
(More) ASIAN TITLES CELEBRATING UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS & SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING
Consider this part two of the June 21st post where I highlighted mainly books from Singapore on the newly released booklist from the AFCC (Asian Festival of Children's Content) and the Singapore Book Council highlighting Asian titles celebrating UN SDG goals & social emotional learning. Now let's look at some books on the list from … Continue reading (More) ASIAN TITLES CELEBRATING UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS & SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING
Asian Titles celebrating UN Sustainable Development Goals & Social Emotional Learning
Thanks to the AFCC (Asian Festival of Children's Content) and the Singapore Book Council Singapore Book Council / AFCC (Asian Festival of Children's Content) Book recommendations for children and young adults which support the understanding of the UN 2030 Agenda -- i.e., the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (the SDGs)-- set in 2015, with specific targets and … Continue reading Asian Titles celebrating UN Sustainable Development Goals & Social Emotional Learning
UN SDGS: An International Wrap-Up
[Katie Day, Tanglin Trust School, Singapore] The March 2021 Goodreads Bookshelf - 330+ books related to the UN SDGs It's been a long month, but such a resource-rich one -- with posts by teacher-librarians from around the world every day but Wednesdays (yay for #worldkidlit Wednesdays). The goal was to highlight books that support the … Continue reading UN SDGS: An International Wrap-Up
UN SDGS: A Diverse View from Latin America
[Sara Ulloa, San Silvestre School, Lima, Perú] Latin America is a very diverse continent due to its ancient culture. The historian, Diana Uribe, quotes Alexander Von Humboldt who in 1805 said that these lands “produce by themselves everything that the world needs” and she continues by saying that: “everything that the world needs is in … Continue reading UN SDGS: A Diverse View from Latin America
UN SDGS: Through a New Zealand Lens
[Megan Lindsay, owner of Books For Kids, Hamilton, New Zealand] Map source New Zealand has recently been going through a redefining of “who we are” and “Māori people matter”; a resurgence of traditional landowners and how we meld together after generations of bad feeling over white colonial dominance. Supporting this is a plethora of new … Continue reading UN SDGS: Through a New Zealand Lens
Global Literature in Libraries Initiative 