Passport to the World
Traveling Around the World Through
Children's Literature
Booklist
The Way We Do It In Japan by Geneva Cobb Iijima; illustrated by Paige Billin-Frye. Albert Whitman & Co., 2002. (Japan)
Tokyo Friends by Betty Reynolds. Tuttle Publishing, 1998. (Japan)
Daisy Comes Home by Jan Brett. G. H. Putnam’s Sons, 2002. (China)
At the Beach by Huy Voun Lee. Henry Holt, 1994. (Introduction to Chinese Characters)
The Trip Back Home by Janet S. Wong; illustrated by Bo Jia. Harcourt, Inc., 2000. (Korea)
The Caged Birds of Phnom Penh by Frederick Lipp; illustrated by Ronald Himler. Holiday House, 2001. (Cambodia)
Monsoon by Uma Krishnaswami; illustrated by Jamel Akib. Berryville Graphics, 2003. (India)
Caravan by Lawrence McKay, Jr; illustrated by Darryl Ligasan. Lee & Low Books, Inc., 1995. (Afghanistan)
Sami and the Times of the Troubles by Florence Parry Heide and Judith Heide Gilliland; illustrated by Ted Lewin. Houghton Mifflin, 1992. (Lebanon)
AFRICA
Ali: Child of the Desert by Jonathon London; illustrated by Ted Lewin. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1997. (Morocco)
My Father’s Shop by Satomi Ichikawa. Kane Miller Book Publishers, Inc., 2006. (Morocco)
The Day of Ahmed’s Secret by Florence Parry Heide & Judith Heide Gilliland; illustrated by Ted Lewin. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1990. (Egypt)
Beatrice’s Goat by Page McBrier; illustrated by Lori Lohstoeter. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2001. (Uganda)
Galimoto by Karen Lynn Williams; illustrated by Catherine Stock. William Morrow (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard), 1990. (Malawi)
Where are you going, Manyoni? by Catherine Stock. William Morrow, 1993. (Zimbabwe)
Masai & I by Virginia Kroll; illustrated by Nancy Carpenter. Four Wind/Macmillan, 1992. (Kenya & Tanzania)
Jamela’s Dress by Niki Daly. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1999. (South Africa)
Duma. Feature film directed by Carroll Ballard with Alex Michaeletos. 2005 (South Africa)
Saturday Sancocho by Leyla Torres. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1995. (Colombia)
Isabel’s House of Butterflies by Tony Johnston; illustrated by Susan Guevara. Sierra Club Juveniles, 2003. (Mexico)
Abuela’s Weave by Omar S. Castaneda; illustrated by Enrique O Sanchez. Lee & Low Books, 1993. (Guatemala)
Tap-Tap by Karen Lynn Williams; illustrated by Catherine Stock. Clarion Books, 1994. (Haiti)
Arctic Son
by Jean Craifhead Georg; illustatred by Wendell Minor. Hyperion Books for
Children, 1997. (Arctic Circle)
YOUNG ADULT
Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fisher Staples. Frances Foster Books, 2005. (Afghanistan)
The Breadwinner Trilogy (Afghanistan)
The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis. Groundwood Books, 2001.
Parvana’s Journey by Deborah Ellis. Groundwood Books, 2002.
Mud City by Deborah Ellis. Groundwood Books, 2003.
Habibi by Naomi Shihab Nye. Simon & Schuster, 1999. (Jerusalem/Palestine/Israel)
ADULT
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Free Press, 2007. (Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Netherlands)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Riverhead Books, 2003. (Afghanistan)
The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany. American University in Cairo Press, 2004. (Egypt-Bestselling novel in the Arab world)
Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. Viking, 2006.
AMERICAN HISTORY
1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving by Catherine O’Neill Grace and Margaret M Bruchac with Plimoth Plantation: photographs by Sisse Brimberg and Cotton Coulson. National Geographic Society, 2001.
CARING FOR THE EARTH
The Gift: A Story about Caring for the Earth by Isia Osuchowska. Wisdom Publications, 1996. (Eastern Hemisphere-Main character is an adult-Recycling/reuse)
The Lorax by Dr. Suess. Random House, 1971.