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Poet Michael Rosen on children in Gaza
THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 2009 I just received word that the British poet and writer Michael Rosen, 2007 British Children's Laureate, read a new poem last weekend at Speakers Corner, Hyde Park, in London. The Tanjara blog has video of the actual reading...
DON’T MENTION THE CHILDREN BY MICHAEL ROSEN
Collateral damage. Casualties of war. Seen but not heard. Neither seen nor heard. There are none. They don’t exist. They are the cradle of terrorists. Rubble is their toy. Ideas are their weapons. They are not children. They can’t be children. Let us...
Anthony Robinson is the author of the Refugee Diaries series, and Street Children (Frances Lincoln). Annemarie Young is co-author with Michael Rosen of Who are Refugees and Migrants? What Makes People Leave Their Homes? And Other Big Questions (Wayla...
New Bookbird Issue 4 / 2020 - Focus IBBY
Bookbird A Journal of International Children's Literature Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature (ISSN 0006 7377) is a refereed journal published quarterly by IBBY. Bookbird aims to communicate new ideas to the community of reader...
Palestinian Children’s Literature
February 12, 2021 N.A. Mansour on Sonia Nimr Sonia Nimr, Wondrous Journeys in Strange Lands. Trans. Marcia Lynx Qualey. Interlink Books, 2020. $15.00 (paperback) We do not allow our characters rest. They are called upon to entertain us by darting to...
Palestinian Sites http://www.tamerinst.org http://www.maan-ctr.org/ https://www.defenceforchildren.org/dci-worldwide/middle-east/palestine.html http://www.qattanfoundation.org http://www.altufula.org http://www.ecrc-jer.org http://www.alaswar.org htt...
The boy, the girl and the wall http://astridlindgrenmemorialaward.wordpress.com/tag/ulf-stark/ Posts Tagged ‘Ulf Stark’ The boy, the girl and the wall February 27, 2011 The Swedish writer Ulf Stark (nominated to the 2011 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Awar...
What Would Anne Frank Have Said?
Beverley Naidoo What Would Anne Frank Have Said?}} This article first appeared in the Times Educational Supplement (19.5.2000) and in Writing in Education (Summer 2000) As the child of a Jewish mother born in South Africa during the Second World War,...
'Tasting the Sky': An Interview
The Nation 'Tasting the Sky': An Interview With Ibtisam Barakat By Molly Bennet June 4, 2007 EDITOR'S NOTE: Ibtisam Barakat, who lives in Columbia, Missouri, is the author of the memoir Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood, recently published by...
Beverley Naidoo WHO WILL WAKE JUSTICE UP? Beverley Naidoo (published by TES 9.11.2001 entitled 'Real suffering speaks truth about injustice') Imagine a narrow school hall filled with teenage schoolgirls in the week after September 11th. They have rea...
Elizabeth Laird With Sonia Nimr What Liz Laird said about writing the book: http://www.elizabethlaird.co.uk/#!a-little-piece-of-ground/cyw1 { Outside the home of the Aboudi in the Palestinian city of Ramallah, an Israeli tank blocks the street. Armed...
Palestinians in Fiction for Young People
Elsa. Marston Wasafiri Issue 60, December 2009 Elsa Marston No matter how subtly, or how well wrapped in drama, fantasy or humour, literary fiction for young people conveys values — and surely we would not want it any other way. Of quite a different...
Anne Carter Award Letter February 2, 2009 Dear Staff of Groundwood Books, On behalf of the International Reading Association’s Notable Books for a Global Society, it is my distinct pleasure to inform you that our committee has selected one of the ext...
Letter to the children of the world International Children Book Day 2014 Ireland Readers often ask writers how it is that they write their stories – where do the ideas come from? From my imagination, the writer answers. Ah, yes, readers might say. Bu...
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
Tamer Institute for Community Education "For its exceptional reading promotion work, the Tamer Institute for Community Education has been awarded the 2009 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award." Click on the page for the full article :
This article was published in "Corner Stone" (Issue 41 - Summer 2006) Click on the photo for the full edition.
Finding Palestine in Children's Books
Elsa Marston The Arab world in children's books Finding Palestine Abstract In this article based on a talk given at an international conference on children's literature sponsored by the Lebanese Association of Women Researchers, Marston writes about...
Telling the Truth for Palestinian Children
A presentation by the Canadian writer Anne Carter at IBBY 30th Congress in Macau Speech http://www.ibby.org/index.php?id=638 And PowerPoint presentation This was presented at IBBY 30 Congress in Macau- China in 2006 Telling the Truth for Palestinian...
Medchild Award- Posted IBBY WP
Tamer Institute for Community Education was awarded the First Medchild Award for Best Practice for the category of Education and Culture. The award is of the value €25.000. It is the first time that this award is launched and it is an award for the p...