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Introduce your children to women and children in other parts of the world, and to festivals in many countries.
Rascals in Paradise, a service of Casto Travel, San Francisco, makes it easy to vacation internationally with your children or grandchildren. Want to go to...Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, Central America, Asia, Oceania...but want American children's menus? A crib? A high chair? Connecting rooms? A prescreened baby-sitter? Casto's Rascals in Paradise takes
care of all
that and even identify family-friendly resorts with children's
activities and shaded playgrounds. And, if you want to be sure
your kids have pals to play with, they will plan a 6-family group
trip (each
family has its own baby-sitter so the adults can vacation, too;
a teacher escorts the tours, helps the kids learn a little
bit about the local language, history and culture, and
even invites local children over for play dates). |
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The
Peace Book.
The abstract concept, peace, is difficult for kids under seven to understand.
This book relates the notion to making new friends, listening to different
kinds of music, and helping
neighbors. With bright colors and
smiling characters, The Peace Book is timeless, universal
and can spark discussions in homes and classrooms. The book benefits
UNICEF.
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The People
Like Me show is a San Francisco
Bay Area performance series for kingergarten-to-sixth graders
who will like (and learn from) a curious character’s
quest to find his origins and roots. Searching for his lost
memory, he finds DNA, light and shadow, and gravity. Falling
up and growing |
| Girl
Scouts of Santa Clara County and Youth Philanthropy Worldwide have
created the Women Worldwide Interest Patch. To earn it, girls learn
to be a grant maker, design a logo for an overseas nonprofit, investigate
laws around the world that protect women. Click
here to find out more. |
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Madam
President. The story of a 10-year- old girl who
wants to be president. This book introduces her to women foreign
leaders, presidential appointees, congresswomen and suffragists. The Merasi Counting Book, illustrated by Indra Banu with bright folk art designs from Rajasthan, will help children see beyond their own experience---and learn to count to twenty in English and Hindi. The book, inspired and supported by photographer Barbara Goodbody, was produced by—and benefits— the disenfranchised Merasi community, which has an ancient musical heritage but is denied educational and employment opportunities. MORE |
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African
Princess, The Amazing Lives of Africa’s Royal Women.
Girls ages 8+
will be enthralled with the complicated, dangerous lives of the
six women profiled
in this extraordinary new book, beginning with Hatshepsut of Egypt
who crowned herself pharaoh in the 15th century BC. |
| The People Could Fly,
The Picture Book. Although the
original, beloved book was published 20 years ago, the 2004 edition
has new evocative, vivid images and features only the title story:
a magical African people lose their wings when they are shipped
to America as slaves. Yet one day the magic is recreated, and
the former winged people soar from the plantation to freedom.
The New York Times called this book “A triumph
of words, pictures and storytelling.”
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Xanadu
Gallery’s Folk Art International Resources for Education
is a nonprofit |
Winona
LaDuke: Restoring Land and Culture in Native America. The
youngest person ever to speak before the United Nations is a 17-year-old
Native American girl, Winona LaDuke. After graduating from Harvard,
she returned to White Earth Reservation in Minnesota to build schools,
combat poverty and ecological destruction, and revive Anishinaabe
culture by recovering reservation lands. She helped found the indigenous
Women’s Network, and ran twice for US Vice President. MORE |
Girl Scout founder Juliette Low loved travel and her organization offers girls many global opportunities. Members 14-17 can participate in Studio B’s international programs such as surfing in Mexico or sea kayaking in Costa Rica. MORE USA Girl Scouts Overseas
helps expat Scouts to the
same excitement, fun, and adventures in Scouting as their stateside
sisters. The World Association
of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts |
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Life
Like Mine: How children Live Around |
Waiting
to be Heard. Isabel Allende’s forward introduces
this volume in which young people speak out about inheriting a violent world. Thirty -nine students of San Francisco's Thurgood Marshall Academic High School use fiction, poetry, and experimental writing to offer passionate, lucid statements about personal, local, and global issues. MORE |
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The
Global Fund for Children supports community-based education
groups around the world. Its publishing arm is Global Fund for Children.
GFC President Maya Ajmera writes the wonderful photographic
books that are about children in many countries. Titles include:
Animal Friends, a Global Celebration of Children and Animals;
Let the Games Begin (about games and sports kids play
in different places); Children from Australia to Zimbabwe;
To be an Artist (ways children around the world express
themselves artistically) and Be My Neighbor (about communities,
with words of wisdom from Fred Rogers). |
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Global Grover segments on Sesame
Street introduce kids and their cultures around the world.
Grover visits a six-year-old Chinese acrobat in one show, a girl
learning to play the Puerto Rican guiro in another. After 35 years,
Sesame Street now operates in 120 countries, working with local
educators to tailor its material. |
Mulan is
based on a poem written more than a thousand years ago in which
a Chinese girl learns that her sick father will be conscripted
to fight invading
Huns. Knowing he could never survive, she decides to disguise herself and fight
in his place. Forbidden to speak directly to any man other than her father, she
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Children Just Like Me
is a book by Anabel and Barnabas Kindersley, produced for DK Publishing
in conjunction with UNICEF. The authors traveled for almost two
years to more than 30 countries to meet, photograph, and talk
with the children featured in this book. In their next project,
Celebrations, children from a wide range of countries
give a first-person account of how holidays are celebrated. |
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