The Bee Tree

Stephen Buchmann

The Bee Tree is a picture book that tells the magical story of a honey hunt in the dense rainforest of Malaysia. The story is narrated by Nizam, a young boy whose grandfather Pak Teh is the...

Should We Burn Babar?

Essays on Children's Literature and the Power of Stories

Herbert Kohl, Jack David Zipes

In "provocative and entertaining essays [that] will appeal to reflective readers, parents, and educators" (Library Journal), one of the country's foremost education writers looks at the...

A Little Piece of Ground

Elizabeth Laird

Written by Elizabeth Laird, one of the UK's best-known young adult authors, A Little Piece Of Ground is one boy's telling of the human cost of the occupation of Palestinian lands. 12 year...

Selavi, That is Life

A Haitian Story of Hope

Youme Landowne

On the streets of Haiti, a homeless child learns the meaning of family, solidarity, and hope. Selavi is the child's name, and along with other street children they proclaim a message of hope...

The Tree of Life

The Wonders of Evolution

Ellen Jackson

Many children's stories and books have addressed the idea of biblical creation, but the number of works written to acquaint youngsters with the extraordinary and continuing process of natural...

A Spoon for Every Bite/Una cuchara aara cada bocado

Joe Hayes

The rich man laughed aloud. "You had only two spoons! And you bought a third one for me to eat with! Why, I have so many spoons I could use a different one each day of the year if I wished to."...

Walking On Water

Reading, Writing, And Revolution

Derrick Jensen

Jensen draws on his experiences as a teacher in both a university and a maximum security prison to argue for a new modeol of education. He paints a grim picture of a system that teaches students to...

The Blue Cow and Her Fantastic Exploits

John Olday

A wonderfully illustrated children's book, which is, both by the brilliance of the drawings and the surrealism of the text, surely even more fascinating to adults than to their offspring. A...

Questions and Swords

Folktales of the Zapatista Revolution

Subcomandante Marcos

Two neo-Mayan folktales from the jungles of Chiapas full of color illustrations. For Zapatistas of all ages.