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Booklist Article on Books Portraying Today’s Immigration Exerience
“First Crossing” is just one of many titles for children and young adults suggesed by Booklist By Delanie Honda (Intern to I’m Your Neighbor) We were fortunate to find an article by Booklist entitled...
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While I’m Your Neighbor Books provides a recommended list of books to read about other cultures, we don’t always have then answers to how to use these titles. Some titles have educator’s guides and...
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School Library Journal recently published a selection of books featuring experiences of war, both from the perspective of home and abroad. The selection is categorized by age and has both fiction and...
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One Answer is Through Literature
Illustration © Shane W. Evans from THE RED PENCIL Monica Edinger, a fourth-grade teacher in New York City, the author of Africa Is My Home: A Child of the Amistad, and blogger at Educating Alice,...
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Empathy for the Struggles of Childhood Immigration
MY TWO BLANKETS Illustration © Freya Blackwood Author and illustrator Eugene Yelchin writing for The New York Times Book Review profiled the I’m Your Neighbor featured picture books My Two Blankets,...
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What It’s Like to Be a Refugee
Children’s book author Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich shares “Books to Help Kids Understand What It’s Like to Be a Refugee” in an article for Brightly. What favorite book for building understanding?
View ArticleRecommended Reading List from School Library Journal
School Library Journal recently published a selection of books featuring experiences of war, both from the perspective of home and abroad. The selection is categorized by age and has both fiction and...
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One Answer is Through Literature
Illustration © Shane W. Evans from THE RED PENCIL Monica Edinger, a fourth-grade teacher in New York City, the author of Africa Is My Home: A Child of the Amistad, and blogger at Educating Alice,...
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Empathy for the Struggles of Childhood Immigration
MY TWO BLANKETS Illustration © Freya Blackwood Author and illustrator Eugene Yelchin writing for The New York Times Book Review profiled the I’m Your Neighbor featured picture books My Two Blankets,...
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What It’s Like to Be a Refugee
Children’s book author Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich shares “Books to Help Kids Understand What It’s Like to Be a Refugee” in an article for Brightly. What favorite book for building understanding?
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Empathy for Refugees Through Story…and Hypnosis
Studies have shown that reading fiction creates empathy. That is the whole basis of I’m Your Neighbor – creating empathy for the immigration experience through stories. Amnesty International took...
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