AGASSI, MARTINEHANDS ARE NOT FOR HITTING
Bin #5
Demonstrates that hands are not for hitting by suggesting many positive uses for them instead.
BUNTING, EVE
THE WEDNESDAY SURPRISE
Bin #5
On Wednesday nights when Grandma stays with Anna everyone thinks she is teaching Anna to read but it's really the other way around.
CISNEROS, SANDRAHAIRS/PELITOS
Bin#1, #2, #3
From Papa's stiff brush cut...to Kiki's bushy cap, like fur...to Nenny's slippery locks, here's a family with all different kinds of hair. And then there's Mama, whose hair smells sweet like bread. Mama's hair is like no one else's. This jewel-like vignette from Sandra Cisneros' best-selling The House on Mango Street celebrates one loving family -- in all its diversity.
FRIEDMAN, INA R.
HOW MY PARENTS LEARNED TO EAT
Bin #5
An American soldier courts a Japanese girl and each tries, in secret, to learn the other's way of eating.
GRIFALCONI, ANNTHE VILLAGE OF ROUND AND SQUARE HOUSES
Bin #4
In the village of Tos in Cameroon -- a village that really exists -- the men live in square houses and the women in round. The story behind the custom is sensitively retold through the eyes of a young girl brought up there.
HEIDE, FLORENCE PARRY
GILLILAND, JUDITH HEIDE
THE DAY OF AHMED'S SECRET
Bin#1, #2, #3
A young Egyptian boy describes the city of Cairo as he goes about his daily work and waits for the evening to share a special surprise with his family.
Bin#1, #2, #3
A young Egyptian boy describes the city of Cairo as he goes about his daily work and waits for the evening to share a special surprise with his family.
KROLL, VIRGINIASHE IS BORN
Bin #4
Baby girls are welcomed with different words, traditions and possibilities in different cultures around the world.
LIN, GRACEKITE FLYING
Bin #5
A Chinese girl describes how her family makes and flies a kite.
LIN, GRACETHE UGLY VEGETABLES
Bin #5
When a young Chinese girl and her mother plant their garden they do things differently than the neighbours. When their plants grow, they look different. The neighbours have flowers and they have ugly vegetables. But the girl discovers that mom makes wonderful soup with them at harvest time.
MY MOM IS SO UNUSUAL
Bin #4
This is the story of a single-parent family. It is a family where the roles are often reversed, with the little girl at times taking care of her mother - as in the case where the daughter sleeps with her Mom because the mother is afraid of the dark.
These two have a special relationship, they share a great deal together and this closeness makes them happy to be different from the families of most of their friends.
LOOK, LENORELOVE AS STRONG AS GINGER
Bin #1, #2, #3
A Chinese American girl comes to realize how hard her grandmother works to fulfill her dreams when they spend a day together at the grandmother's job cracking crabs.
OLDER, EFFIN
MY TWO GRANDMOTHERS
Bin #1, #2, #3
After Lily celebrates Hanukkah with one of her grandmothers and Christmas with the other, she plans a special party for both of them.
RASCHKA, CHRISYO! YES?
Bin #1, #2, #3
Two lonely characters, one black and one white, meet on the street and become friends.
SAKAI, KIMIKO
SACHIKO MEANS HAPPINESS
Bin #1, #2, #3
Although at first Sachiko is upset when her grandmother no longer recognizes her, she grows to understand that they can still be happy together.
SANGINE, JEANA TURTLE CALLED FRIENDLY
Bin #5
A young boy from China moves to Canada and has difficulties making friends until he finds a turtle.
WHERE DID YOU GET YOUR MOCCASINS?
Bin #1, #2, #3
Children in an urban school are curious about a classmate's new pair of moccasins. In answer to their questions, the boy describes in detail how his grandmother, or Kookum, made his moccasins.
WOLOSON, ELIZAMY FRIEND ISABELLE
Bin #4
Isabelle and Charlie are friends. They both like to draw, dance, read and play in the park. They both like to eat Cheerios. They both cry if their feelings are hurt. And like most friends, they are also different from each other. Isabelle has Down syndrome. Charlie doesn't.
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