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One World, Many Stories (Winter 2016)

Books have the power to unite children across the globe. Check out this special CBC Showcase in honor of Children’s Book Week 2017!

 
Four Feet, Two Sandals

Four Feet, Two Sandals

By: Karen Lynn Williams and Khadra Mohammed
Illustrated by:
Doug Chayka
ISBN: 9780802852960
 
My Name Is Sangoel

My Name Is Sangoel

By: Karen Lynn Williams and Khadra Mohammed
Illustrated by:
Catherine Stock
ISBN: 9780802853073
 
Abayomi, The Brazilian Puma: The True Story of an Orphaned Puma

Abayomi, The Brazilian Puma

By: Darcy Pattison
Illustrated by:
Kitty Harvill
ISBN: 978-1-62944-000-2
 
Sitting Bull: Lakota Warrior and Defender of His People

Sitting Bull

By: S.D. Nelson
ISBN: 9781419707315
 
The Little Tree

The Little Tree

By: Muon Van
Illustrated by:
JoAnn Adinolfi
ISBN: 9781939547194
 
Because You’ll Never Meet Me

Because You’ll Never Meet Me

By: Leah Thomas
ISBN: 9781619635906
 
The Hero Two Doors Down: Based on the True Story of Friendship Between a Boy and a Baseball Legend

The Hero Two Doors Down

By: Sharon Robinson
ISBN: 9780545804516
 
Nurtured and Nuzzled ∙ Criados y Acariciados

Nurtured and Nuzzled ∙ Criados y Acariciados

By: Editors at Platypus Media
Illustrated by:
Mike Speiser
ISBN: 9781930775800
 
Toby and the Ice Giants

Toby and the Ice Giants

By: Joe Lillington
Illustrated by:
Joe Lillington
ISBN: 9781909263581
 
Liberty

Liberty

By: Darcy Pattison
ISBN: 9781629440644
 
Shackleton’s Journey

Shackleton’s Journey

By: William Grill
Illustrated by:
William Grill
ISBN: 9781909263109
 
Introducing Teddy

Introducing Teddy

By: Jessica Walton
Illustrated by:
Dougal MacPherson
ISBN: 9781681192109
 
Christmas from Heaven: The True Story of the Berlin Candy Bomber

Christmas from Heaven

By: Tom Brokaw
Illustrated by:
Robert T. Barrett
ISBN: 9781609077006
 
The Sun is Also a Star

The Sun is Also a Star

By: Nicola Yoon
ISBN: 9780553496680
 
Trailblazers: 33 Women in Science Who Changed the World

Trailblazers

By: Rachel Swaby
ISBN: 9780399553967
 
Up from the Sea

Up from the Sea

By: Lesa Lowitz
ISBN: 9780553534740
 
The Last Thirteen: 13

The Last Thirteen

By: James Phelan
ISBN: 9781610672542
 
Make Buildings: A Doodle Design Activity Book

Make Buildings

By: Christopher Harrisson
Illustrated by:
Charlotte Farmer
ISBN: • 9781610674102
 
Pass the Pandowdy, Please

Pass the Pandowdy, Please

By: Abigail Zelz
Illustrated by:
Eric Zelz
ISBN: 9780884484684
 
The Soda Bottle School

The Soda Bottle School

By: Laura Kutner, Suzanne Slade
Illustrated by:
Aileen Darragh
ISBN: 9780884483717
 
Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan

Lost Boy, Lost Girl

By: John Bul Dau and Martha Arual Akech with Michael S. Sweeney and Karen M. Kostyal
ISBN: 9781426307089
 
National Geographic Kids Chapters: Rhino Rescue

National Geographic Kids Chapters

By: Clara Hodgson Meeker
ISBN: 9781426323119
 
Paper Wishes

Paper Wishes

By: Lois Sepahban
ISBN: 9780374302160
 
Can You Say Peace?

Can You Say Peace?

By: Karen Katz
Illustrated by:
Karen Katz
ISBN: 9781250073211
 
The Runaway’s Gold

The Runaway’s Gold

By: Emilie Christie Burack
ISBN: 9781419713699
 
Riding Chance

Riding Chance

By: Christine Kendall
ISBN: 9780545924047
 
Where Did My Clothes Come From?

Where Did My Clothes Come From?

By: Christine Butterworth
Illustrated by:
Lucia Gaggiotti
ISBN: 9780763677503
 
Gaia Warriors

Gaia Warriors

By: Nicola Davies, with an afterword by James Lovelock
ISBN: 9780763648084
 
A Year Full of Stories: 52 Folk Tales and Legends from All Around the World

A Year Full of Stories

By: Angela McAllister
ISBN: 9781847808684
 
Journey Around the World (Playmobil)

Journey Around the World (Playmobil)

By: Richard Unglik
ISBN: 9781633220799
 
City Atlas: Travel the World with 30 City Maps

City Atlas

By: Georgia Cherry
Illustrated by:
Martin Haake
ISBN: 9781847807014
 
Wheels of Change

Wheels of Change

By: Darlene Beck Jacobson
ISBN: 9781939547132
 
Always With You

Always With You

By: Ruth Vander Zee
ISBN: 9780802852953
 
The Wizard Who Saved the World

The Wizard Who Saved the World

By: Jeffrey Bennett
Illustrated by:
Roberta Collier-Morales
ISBN: 9780972181945
 
A Thirst for Home: A Story of Water Across the World

A Thirst for Home

By: Christine Ieronimo
Illustrated by:
Eric Velasquez
ISBN: 9780802723079
 
Arcady’s Goal

Arcady’s Goal

By: Eugene Yelchin
Illustrated by:
Eugene Yelchin
ISBN: 9780805098440
 
This Side of Home

This Side of Home

By: Renée Watson
ISBN: 9781599906683
 
Black and White

Black and White

By: Dahlov Ipcar
Illustrated by:
Dahlov Ipcar
ISBN: 9781909263444
 
In a Village by the Sea

In a Village by the Sea

By: Muon Van
Illustrated by:
April Chu
ISBN: 9781939547156
 
Lailah’s Lunchbox

Lailah’s Lunchbox

By: Reem Faruqi
Illustrated by:
Lea Lyon
ISBN: 9780884484318
 
Kell, the Alien: Book 1, The Aliens, Inc. Series

Kell, the Alien

By: Darcy Pattison
Illustrated by:
Rich Davis
ISBN: 9781629440217
 
Give a Goat

Give a Goat

By: Jan West Schrock
Illustrated by:
Aileen Darragh
ISBN: 9780884483434
 
I, Humanity

I, Humanity

By: Jeffrey Bennett
ISBN: 9781937548520
 
The Girl Who Saved Yesterday

The Girl Who Saved Yesterday

By: Julius Lester
Illustrated by:
Carl Angel
ISBN: 9781939547248
 
Mira’s Diary: California Dreaming

Mira’s Diary

By: Marissa Moss
ISBN: 9781939547224
 
The Boy at the Top of the Mountain

The Boy at the Top of the Mountain

By: John Boyne
ISBN: 9781627790307
Fiction, Teen, Historical Fiction
 
She Stood for Freedom : The Untold Story of a Civil Rights Hero, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland

She Stood for Freedom

By: Loki Mullholland
Illustrated by:
Charlotta Janssen
ISBN: 9781629721774
 
One Minute Mysteries: More Short Mysteries You Solve With Science!

One Minute Mysteries

By: Eric and Natalie Yoder
ISBN: 9781938492150
 
All We Have Left

All We Have Left

By: Wendy Mills
ISBN: 9781619633438
 
Marcel

Marcel

By: Eda Akaltun
Illustrated by:
Eda Akaltun
ISBN: 9781909263758
 
One Day on our Blue Planet… in the Antarctic

One Day on our Blue Planet… in the Antarctic

By: Ella Bailey
Illustrated by:
Ella Bailey
ISBN: 9781909263673
 
Learning to Swear in America

Learning to Swear in America

By: Katie Kennedy
ISBN: 9781619639096
 
The Orphan Keeper

The Orphan Keeper

By: Camron Wright
ISBN: 9781629722245
 
Hopping Ahead of Climate Change — Snowshoe Hares, Science, and Survival
 
Beautiful Blue World

Beautiful Blue World

By: Suzanne LaFleur
ISBN: 9780385743006
 
The Tree in the Courtyard: Looking Through Anne Frank’s Window

The Tree in the Courtyard

By: Jeff Gottesfeld
Illustrated by:
Peter McCarty
ISBN: 9780385753975
 
Chloe in India

Chloe in India

By: Kate Darnton
ISBN: 9780553535044
 
Anna Hibiscus

Anna Hibiscus

By: Atinuke
Illustrated by:
Lauren Tobia
ISBN: 9781935279730
 
Moon Watchers

Moon Watchers

By: Reza Jalali
Illustrated by:
Anne Sibley O'Brien
ISBN: 9780884483212
 
Talking Walls: Discover Your World

Talking Walls

By: Margy Burns Knight
Illustrated by:
Anne Sibley O'Brien
ISBN: 9780884483564
 
Seeking the Snow Leopard

Seeking the Snow Leopard

By: Jon Micelar
ISBN: 9781943431168
 
Satchi and Little Star

Satchi and Little Star

By: Donna Marie Seim
Illustrated by:
Susan Spellman
ISBN: 9780982823675
 
A Cool Drink of Water

A Cool Drink of Water

By: Barbara Kerley
ISBN: 9781426313295
 
Every Human Has Rights: What You Need to Know About Your Human Rights

Every Human Has Rights

By: National Geographic Kids
ISBN: 978142630510
 
Untamed: The Wild Life of Jane Goodall

Untamed

By: Anita Silvey
ISBN: 9781426315183
 
1,001 Inventions and Awesome Facts from Muslim Civilization

1,001 Inventions and Awesome Facts from Muslim Civilization

By: National Geographic Kids
ISBN: 9781426312588
 
Anna & Solomon

Anna & Solomon

By: Elaine Snyder
Illustrated by:
Harry Bliss
ISBN: 9780374303624
 
90 Miles to Havana

90 Miles to Havana

By: Enrique Flores-Galbis
ISBN: 9781250005595
 
Every Falling Star

Every Falling Star

By: Sungju Lee and Susan McClelland
ISBN: 9781419721328
 
Weather, Weather

Weather, Weather

By: Maira Kalman and Daniel Handler
Illustrated by:
Maira Kalman
ISBN: 9781633450141
 
The Bamboo Sword

The Bamboo Sword

By: Margi Preus
ISBN: 9781441970807
 
First Flight Around the World

First Flight Around the World

By: Tim Grove
ISBN: 9781419714825
 
Mission Mumbai: A Novel of Sacred Cows, Snakes, and Stolen Toilets

Mission Mumbai

By: Mahtab Narsimhan
ISBN: 9780545746519
 
Save Me a Seat

Save Me a Seat

By: Sarah Weeks and Gita Varadarajan
ISBN: 9780545846608
 
Unidentified Suburban Object

Unidentified Suburban Object

By: Mike Jung
ISBN: 9780545782265
 
Making Friends with Billy Wong

Making Friends with Billy Wong

By: Augusta Scattergood
ISBN: 9780545924252
 
Children Growing Up with War

Children Growing Up with War

By: Jenny Matthews
ISBN: 9780763669423
 
Who We Are!: All About Being the Same and Being Different

Who We Are!

By: Robie H. Harris
Illustrated by:
Nadine Bernard Westcott
ISBN: 9780763669034
 
Can We Help?

Can We Help?

By: George Ancona
ISBN: 9780763673673
 
Dolls of Hope

Dolls of Hope

By: Shirley Parenteau
ISBN: 9780763677527
 
Three Years and Eight Months

Three Years and Eight Months

By: Icy Smith
Illustrated by:
Jennifer Kindert
ISBN: 9780985623784
 
Half Spoon of Rice: A Survival Story of the Cambodian Genocide

Half Spoon of Rice

By: Icy Smith
Illustrated by:
Sopaul Nhem
ISBN: 9780982167588
Fiction, 7-12, Historical Fiction
 
Mei Ling in China City

Mei Ling in China City

By: Icy Smith
Illustrated by:
Gayle Garner Roski
ISBN: 9780979933950
 
What in the World!: Wild, Weird and Wonderful Adventures of a Wanderer

What in the World!

By: Michael Smith
ISBN: 9780966943740
 
My Village: Rhymes from Around the World in their Original Languages

My Village

By: Danielle Wright
Illustrated by:
Mique Moriuchi
 
Spot the Seal Around the World

Spot the Seal Around the World

By: Sarah Khan
ISBN: 9781609928230
 
The Hello Atlas

The Hello Atlas

By: Kenard Pak
ISBN: 9781847808639
 
Caravaggio: Painter on the Run

Caravaggio

By: Marissa Moss
ISBN: 9781939547293
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