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TARGET: I am taking a course in Children's Literature and need to compile a list of Children's Books set in different countries. If you could send me your favorite books set in other countries along with mention of the country it is set in. I used information several of you shared as well as other resources to compile the list. Below you will find the list as I turned it in for my assignment - complete with my resources. HIT: Afghanistan The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis Australia Koala Lou by Mem Fox Thank you Santa by Wild Sun Mother Wakes the World by Diane Wolkstein Austria Cristoph Wants a Party by Mira Lobe Belguim Dounia by Natacha Karvoskaia You Be Me/I’ll Be You by Pili Mandelbaum Cambodia Silent Lotus by Lee Canada Purple Green and Yellow by Munsch China Homecoming by Jean Fritz China Ties that Bind, Ties that Break The Empty Pot by Demi Little Plum by Young Egypt Heide's The Day of Ahmed's Secret Hatshepsut by Catherine M. Andronik El Salvador A Bear for Miguel by Elaine Marie Alphin England Sylvia Waugh space trilogy (Space Race, Earthborn, Who Goes home?) Madeline in London by Ludwig Bemelmans Ethiopia The Storyteller’s Beads by Jane Kurtz France Zat Cat Charlotte in Paris Banks, Kate. The Cat Who Walked across France A Spree in Paree by Catherine Stock Eloise in Paris by Kay Thompson Crepes by Suzette by Monica Wellington Linnea in Monet’s Garden by Christina Bjork Paddington Abroad by Michael Bond Little Bo In France: The further adventures of Bonnie Boadicea by Julie Andrews Edwards French Kitty in Kitty Goes to Paris by Fine Little John’s Fears by Rene Escucdie Gambia Boundless Grace by Mary Hoffman Germany The Most Wonderful Egg in the World by Helme Heine Guam Keeper of the night, by Kimberly Willis Holt Isabel, a thirteen-year-old girl living on the island of Guam, and her family try to cope with the death of Isabel's mother who committed suicide. India Homeless Bird Monsoon Summer by Mitali Perkins Ireland Nory Ryan's Song Israel (and Palestine) Samir and Yonatan by Daniella Carmi A Stone in My Hand by Cathryn Clinton The Secret Grove by Barbara Cohen Snow in Jerusalem by Deborah daCosta Sitti’s Secrets by Naomi Shihab Nye Italy Gaspard on Vacation by Anne Gutman and Georg Hallensleben The Year I Didn’t Go to School by Giselle Potter Zoe Sophia’s Scrapbook: An Adventure in Venice by Elisa Smalley Vendela in Venice by Christina Bjork Jamaica Ajeemah and His Son by James Berry Japan How My Parents Learned to Eat by Friedman Girl form the snow country by Masako Hidaka Owl Lake by Keizaburo Tejima Grandpa’s Town by Takaai Nomura Anna’s Secret Friend by Yoriko Tsutsui The Master Puppeteer by Katherine Paterson The Tale of the Mandarin Ducks by Katherine Paterson Hiroshima by Laurence Yep Korea A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park Lebanon Sami and the Time of Trouble by Florence Parry Heide and Judith Heide Gilliland Mali Diakit, Baba Wagu. The magic gourd. 1st ed. New York: Scholastic Press, 2003. Diakit, Baba Wagu. The hatseller and the monkeys: a West African folk tale.1st ed. New York : Scholastic Press,1999. Wisniewski, David. Sundiata : lion king of Mali. New York: Clarion, c1992 . Winter, Jeanette. My baby. 1st ed. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2001. Burns, Khephra. Mansa Musa : the lion of Mali. 1st ed. San Diego, Calif.: Harcourt, c2001. Roundtree, Katherine. My little African king. [New York]: Writers and Readers Pub. for Black Butterfly Books, c1999. Mexico Esperanza Rising A Library for Juana by Pat Mora Mongolia Suho and the White Horse Morocco London's Ali, Child of the Desert Netherlands My Elephant Can Do Almost Anything by Anke de Vries Norway Goodbye Rune by Marit Kalkhol Pakistan Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind by Suzanne Fisher Staples Poland Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli A street child, known to himself only as Stopthief, finds community when he is taken in by a band of orphans in Warsaw ghetto which helps him weather the horrors of the Nazi regime. Puerto Rico The Red Comb by Fernando Pico Russia Philipok by Tolstoy (Beneduce) Rechneka’s Eggs by Patricia Polacco The Memory Coat by Elvira Woodruff Republic of South Africa Not so Fast Songololo by Niki Daly Charlie’s House by Reviva Schermbrucker Chain of Fire by Beverley Naidoo Journey to Jo’burg by Beverley Naido Spain With Love from Spain, Melanie Martin by Carol Weston Brush by Pere Calders Sweden The Cat Hat by Eva Lindstrom Switzerland The other side of the bridge by Wolfram Hanel A Princess in Boxland by Tanja Szekessy On the Road with Poppa Whopper by Marianne Busser and Ron Schroder King Bobble by Marianne Busser and Ron Schroder The Old Man and the Bear by Wolfram Hanel Abby by Wolfram Hanel The Foundling Fox by Irina Korschunow Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman Tanzania Elizabeti by Stuve-Bodeen?? Thailand Hush : A Thai Lullaby by Ho Venezuela The Absent Minded Toad by Javier Rondon The Night of the Stars by Douglas Gutierrez Multiple countries represented One-person Puppetry Streamlined and Simplified by Yvonne Amar Frey Sources Lo, Deborah Eville and R. Jeffrey Cantrell. “Global perspectives for young readers: easy readers and picture book read-alouds from around the world.” Childhood Education, Fall 2002: 21-26. Scales, Pat. “Around the World In 22 Books.” Book Links July 2004: 17-19. I requested a Target on LM_NET, the responses are included, as are books from my own readings. Thanks to all who helped. Jane Mouttet Graduate Student Prescott College on leave librarian, Hilltop Chr. School Window Rock, AZ jane@nativeamericanchildrenslit.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. 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