For Children
Anthologies of Peace stories (including traditional and contemporary tales of many cultures):
Brody, Ed et al, Eds., Spinning Tales, Weaving Hope: Stories of Peace, Justice & the Environment, New Society Publishers, 4527 Springfield Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19143, 1992, with follow-up activities.
Floating Eaglefeather, Ed., ...And the Earth Lived Happily Ever After..., Wages of Peace, 309 Trudeau Drive, Metairie, LA 70003, 1987.
As One Is So One Sees, Renaissance Artists & Writers Assn., 854 Pearl St., Denver, COL 80203, ‘83.
Gabriel, Michale, Stories For Peace, Storytell Int'l., Suite 1986, 1075 Bellevue Way, NE, Bellevue, WA 98004.
Hamanaka, Sheila, compiler, On the Wings of Peace, Writers & Illlustrators Speak out for Peace.in Memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Clarion, 1995.
MacDonald, Margaret Read, Peace Tales, World Folktales to Talk About, Linnet Books, 1992.
UNICEF, I dream of peace, Images of war by children of former Yugoslavia, HarperCollins, 1994, includes children’s drawings and statements about their experiences.
Picture books that show cooperation and peaceful problem-solving and the futility of violence:
Emberley, Barbara & Ed Emberley, Drummer Hoff, Simon and Schuster, 1967. Wordless book.
Leaf, Munro, The Story of Ferdinand, Viking Press, 1938, Ferdinand the peaceloving bull refuses to fight in the bullring, and is returned to his peaceful musings under the cork tree.
Lionni, Leo, Six Crows, A Fable, Scholastic Inc., 1988. The Owl peacefully resolves the conflict between the farmer and six crows.
Millman, Dan, Secret of the Peaceful Warrior, H.J. Kramer, Inc., 1991. A boy learns to confront and overpower a bully and then become his friend.
Young, Ed, Seven Blind Mice, Scholastic Inc., 1992. A retelling of the Blind Men and the Elephant that reininforces cooperative learning.
Nonfiction & picture books on race and ethnicity, that value cultural and individual diversity:
Anno, et al, All In a Day, Philomel, 1986, A collaboration of 8 children’s illustrators showing a day in the life of children from 8 nations and time zones.
Baylor, Byrd, The Table Where Rich People Sit, Atheneum, 1994, A girl who is tired of being "poor," engages her family in discussion, and learns how "rich" they are.
Bunting, Eve, Smoky Night, Harcourt Brace & Co., 1994, 1995 Caldecott Medal, With the Los Angeles riots as backdrop, differences between African-American and Korean neighbors are resolved, and new understanding and friendships formed.
Dooley, Nora, Everybody Bakes Bread, 1996, & Everybody Cooks Rice, 1991, Carolrhoda Books, Inc., In each book a child looking for her brother is introduced to a variety of cultures, and discovers many different ways bread/rice are prepared in different households--recipes included.
Hodges, Margaret, The Hero of Bremen, Holiday House, 1993, German legend in which a shoemaker who cannot walk helps the town of Bremen aided by the great spirit Roland.
Lionni, Leo, Frederick, Knopf, 1973, Frederick, the poet mouse, looks like he’s doing nothing while all the others prepare for winter--but as winter wears on, his poems sustain them with memories and hopes for spring and summer.
Garcia, Maria, The Adventures of Connie and Diego, Children's Book Press, 1987, A contemporary legend of Mexican farm workers about skin color and prejudice in which two children leave the Land of Plenty and wander until a fierce tigers helps them understand where they really belong.
Kindersley, Barnabas & Anabel, Children Just Like Me, UNICEF, DK Publishing Book, 1995.
Kissinger, Katie, All the Colors We Are, The Story of How We Get Our Skin Color (Spanish/English), Redleaf Press, 1994.
Menzel, Peter, Material World, A Global Family Portrait, Sierra Club Books, 1994.
Mochizuki, Ken, Baseball Saved Us, 1993, & Heroes, 1995, Lee & Low Books, Inc., two books about Japanese Americans and their treatment during and just after WW II.
Pellegrini, Nina, Families are Different, Scholastic, Inc., 1991. Nico doesn’t look like her mom and dad. That’s because she’s adopted. She looks around and realizes, likeeveryone else, she’s different.
Dr. Seuss, The Sneetches and other stories, Random House, 1989.
Uchida, Yoshiko, The Bracelet, Philomel, 1993, A book about one Japanese-American girl’s friendship with a white girl and her experience in an internment camp during WW II.
Spier, Peter, People, Doubleday-Delacorte, 1980. A illustrated atlas of all the ways people everywhere are alike and different--noses, headcoverings, hair, shoes, food we eat, and on and on are pictured.
Yashima, Taro, Crow Boy, Viking--Puffin, 1976.
African-American Stories
Everett, Gwen, Paintings by William H. Johnson, Li’l Sis and Uncle Willie, Hyperion, 1994, a fictional story based on the life and work of African-American painter William Johnson.
Greenfield, Eloise, Tom Feelings, illustrator, Daydreamers, Dial, 1981, Drawings and poetry full of motion, silence, thoughtfulness, capture the inner feelings of children.
Nathaniel Talking, Black Butterfly Children’s Books, 1988, Poems that tell the stories of one African-American boy.
Hamilton, Virginia, The People Could Fly, American Black Folktales, Knopf, 1985.
Hoffman, Mary, Amazing Grace, Scholastic, Inc., Sept. 1993.
Hughes, Langston, The Dream Keeper and Other Poems, Knopf, 1994, a collection for children.
McKissack, Patricia & Fredrick, Christmas in the Big House, Christmas in the Quarters, Scholastic, 1994, Describes the customs, recipes, poems and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and the slave quarters just before the Civil War.
Raschka, Chris, Charlie Parker Played Be Bop, Orchard, 1992.
Shearer, John, I Wish I Had an Afro, Cowles Book Co., 1970.(SUNY Cob-Juv F/128.9 She)
Tr’ân-Khánh-Tuyê’t, The Little Weaver of Thái-Yên Village, Children’s Book Press, 1987, A young Vietnamese girl who loses her family in the war and is brought to the United States, struggles with the dilemma of how to maintain pride in one’s native culture whle adapting to American life.
Yarborough, Camille, Cornrows, Coward-McCann, Inc., 1979, Explains how the the haristyle of cornrows, a symbol of Africa since ancient times, can today in this country symbolize the courage of outstanding Afro-Americans.
For Teachers
ESR Conflict Resolution Workshop and Implementation Manual, Educators for Social Responsibility, 1995.
Green Circle Manual of Follow-up Active Games, and supplements, Torbert, Marianne.
Human Rights for Children Committee, Human Rights for Children, A Curriculum for Teaching Human Rights to Children, Ages 3-12, Hunter House, Inc., PO Box 2914, Alameda, CA 94501-0451, 1992.
Kriedler, William J., Elementary Perspectives 1, Teaching Concepts of Peace and Conflict, Educators for Social Responsibility, 1990.
Creative Conflict Resolution, More Than 200 Activities for Keeping Peace in the Classroom, K-6, Good Year Books, Scott, Foresman and Company, 1984.
Teaching Conflict Resolution Through Children’s Literature, Grades K-2, Scholastic, 1994. Book titles include, Three Wishes, The Pig War, Island of the Skog, Six Crows, Chicken Sunday, etc.
Levin, Diane, Teaching Young Children in Violent Times, Building a Peaceable Classroom, (preschool-Grade 3), Educators for Social Responsibility, 1994.
The National Conference, 1-800-352-6225, Actions Speak Louder, A Brotherhood/Sisterhood Curriculum, 8 exercises, grades K-12, pamphlet,
Prutzman, et al, The Friendly Classroom for a Small Planet, New Society Publ., 1988.
Rethinking Our Classrooms, teaching for Equity and Justice, Special Issue of Rethinking Schools., 1994, 1001 E. Keefe Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53212, 414-964-9646, E-mail-RSBusiness@aol.com.
Sparks, Louise Derman & the ABC Force, Anti-Bias Curriculum, Tools for Empowering Young Children, National Assn. for the Education of Young Children, 1989, for pre-school and primary grades children.
Teaching Tolerance, Southern Poverty Law Center, 400 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, AL 36104. Magazine for Educators with articles on every aspect of teaching about diversity and tolerance for all grade levels. Available free with request on school stationary to educators and schools. Also available, "One World Poster Series," set of 8 posters with poems and illustrations by children and adults.
Bibliographies
Conflict Management for Preschool Children and Early Elementary, Bibliography by Sharon Schneider, Carlow College, Pittsburg, PA.
The National Conference, 1-800-352-6225, Mirrors and Windows, Seeing the Human Family, Multicultural Books and Activities for Children and Young Adults--an annotated bibliography.
Violence Prevention Bibliography by Bonita Klemm, Assistant Professor, Early Childhood Division, SUNY Cobleskill.
Organizations, Catalogs and Publishers
Children’s Book Press, 1461 Ninth Avenue, Sanfrancisco, California 94122--Publishes children’s literature and audiotapes, featuring both traditional and contemporary stories from minority and new immigrant cultures in America today.
Children’s Creative Response to Conflict, Box 271, Nyack, NY 10960, Books, Trainings.
Children’s Defense Fund, PO Box 90500, Washington, D.C. 20090, 202-662-3652--Posters, books videos.
Educators for Social Responsibility, 23 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, 1-800-370-2515.
Peace Education Foundation, 2627 Biscayne Blvd., Miami, FLA 33137-4532, 1-800-749-8838, Books, Videos, Posters, Puppets, Audio cassettes, Trainings
Redleaf Press, 450 North Syndicate Suite 5, St. Paul, Minnesota 55104-4125, 612-641-0305.
Other Children’s Books
Cameron, Ann, The Most Beautiful Place in the World, Bullseye, 1988.
Casler, Leigh, The Boy Who Dreamed of an Acorn, Philomel, 1994.