Bridges to Understanding
Envisioning the World through Children's Books- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2011
Summary
This is the fourth volume sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People, following Children's Books from Other Countries (1998), The World Through Children's Books (2002), and Crossing Boundaries (2006). This latest volume, edited by Linda M. Pavonetti, includes books published between 2005 and 2009.
This annotated bibliography, organized geographically by world region and country, with descriptions of nearly 700 books representing more than 70 countries, is a valuable resource for librarians, teachers, and anyone else seeking to promote international understanding through children's literature. Like its predecessors, it will be an important tool for providing stories that will help children understand our differences while simultaneously demonstrating our common humanity.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2011
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-8108-8106-8
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-8108-8107-5
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 522
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Preface No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- CHAPTER ONE. Introduction: Where Books Begin No access
- CHAPTER TWO. Reading Globally: The Reader’s Responsibility in Literary Transactions No access
- CHAPTER THREE. Latin America and the Caribbean No access
- CHAPTER FIVE. Asia No access
- CHAPTER SIX. North Africa and the Middle East No access
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Africa South of the Sahara No access
- CHAPTER EIGHT. Antarctica, Australia, and New Zealand No access
- CHAPTER NINE. Europe No access
- CHAPTER TEN. Global and Multinational Books No access
- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Children’s Book Awards with an International Focus No access
- CHAPTER TWELVE. Organizations and Research Collections No access
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Publishers No access
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Sources for Foreign-Language and Bilingual Books No access
- Author/Translator/Illustrator Index No access Pages 485 - 496
- Title Index No access Pages 497 - 510
- Subject Index No access Pages 511 - 520
- About the Editor No access Pages 521 - 522





