October 2007 Events
(Click on event name for more information) Banned Books Week~ Sept 29-Oct 6, USA Canadian Library Month~ Oct 1-31, Canada Frankfurt Book Fair~ Oct 10-14, Frankfurt, Germany Boston Globe-Horn Book...
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Books at Bedtime: Don’t Laugh at Me!
Next week is Anti-Bullying Week in the UK, when school-children throughout the country will take part in activities to help them: “grow up with their respect of self and others intact, be fine...
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Books at Bedtime: Reading Challenge (Update 2!)
It’s hard to believe that a month has gone by since my first update on our rising to the PaperTigers Reading Challenge but it has and we are just about managing to keep up! Our three books this month...
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Talking Up Peace and Social Justice
This month the PaperTigers website offers many new and thought-provoking features related to the themes of “war, peace and social justice” in children’s books. One of its many highlights is the article...
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"When I Grow Up I Will Win the Nobel Peace Prize"
I have started the new year with an optimistic set of intentions which, hopefully, I’ll be able to honor. A few of them have to do with world peace—perhaps not surprisingly, given our world’s state of...
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2009 Jane Addams Children's Book Awards announced
Press Release Winners of the 2009 Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards were announced today by the Jane Addams Peace Association. Books commended by the Award address themes or topics that engage...
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Amazing Peace: A Christmas Poem by Maya Angelou
Continuing our exploration of respect in relation to end-of-year celebrations and inspired by Marjorie’s beautiful post on The Christmas Menorahs, today I highlight Maya Angelou‘s Amazing Peace: A...
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Whitney Stewart (The 14th Dalai Lama: Spiritual Leader of Tibet; Becoming Buddha: The Story of Siddhartha) once wrote an article for the since discontinued literary journal Five Owls, called...
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2010 Jane Addams Children's Book Awards announced
Press Release: April 28, 2010- Winners of the 2010 Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards were announced today by the Jane Addams Peace Association. Nasreen’s Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan,...
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