The Swarthmore College Peace Collection selectively
collects children's books promoting peace, social justice, and nonviolent conflict
resolution. It holds many of the books which have received the Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award.
The annual Jane Addams Children's Book Award honors
children's books of literary and artistic merit that invite children to think
deeply about peace, social justice, world community and gender and racial
equality. The Jane Addams Peace Association has presented the Jane Addams
Children's Book Award since 1953. The association is the educational arm of the
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, founded in 1915 with Jane Addams
as its first president.
The book summaries/annotations below are from publishers'
descriptions unless otherwise noted.
For more information about the books and to find their call numbers,
search the Peace Collection's online catalogue, Tripod
Aaseng,
Nathan.
The Peace Seekers: The Nobel Peace Prize.
Minneapolis: Lerner, 1987.
Profiles of nine Nobel Peace Prize winners who fought for peace by resisting
violence through words, marches, and protests.
Aliki.
Marianthe's Story One: Painted Words; Marianthe's Story Two: Spoken Memories.
New York: Greenwillow, 1998.
Two separate stories in one book, the
first telling of Mari's starting school in a new land, and the second
describing village life in her country before she and her family left in search
of a better life.
Jane Addams Peace Association Children's
Book Award 1999 - Picture Book category.
Archer, Jules.
Hawks, Doves, and the Eagle: America's Struggles for and Against War. Illustrated
by Erwin Schachner.
New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1970.
Discusses the positive and negative
attitudes of the American public on nine major conflicts involving the United
States since the Declaration of Independence was signed.
Armentrout, David, and Patricia Armentrout.
Jane Addams.
Vero Beach, Fla: Rourke Pub, 2002.
Biography of Jane Addams (1860-1935). A
social and political activist, she was a founder of the Hull House settlement
in Chicago. She was a pacifist, author, lecturer and public intellectual, an advocate
of women's voting rights, and the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize (1931). Addams was a founder of the Women's International League
for Peace and Freedom.
Arora, Shirley Lease.
"What Then, Raman?" Illustrated by Hans Guggenheim.
Chicago: Follett, 1960.
Raman must choose between using his
education to move beyond the Indian hills or returning to his home to teach
others.
Jane Addams Peace Association Children's
Book Award, 1961.
Asimov, Isaac.
Earth: Our Crowded Spaceship.
New York: John Day Co., 1974.
Discusses the problems faced by the
Earth's inhabitants as population increases and energy sources, food, and land
become scarcer.
Bacon,
Margaret Hope.
I Speak for My Slave Sister: the Life of Abby
Kelley Foster.
New York:
Crowell, 1974.
Biography of
Abby Kelley Foster (1811-1887), an American anti-slavery abolitionist, a
Quaker, and a radical social reformer.
Bacon,
Margaret Hope.
Lamb's Warrior: the Life of Isaac T. Hopper.
New York:
Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1970.
Biography of
Isaac T. Hopper (1771-1852), a Quaker American anti-slavery abolitionist,
considered the "father" of the Underground Railroad.
Bartoletti,
Susan C.
Growing Up in Coal Country.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1996.
Describes
what life was like, especially for children, in coal mines and mining towns in
the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1997, Books for Older Children
category.
Bauer,
Marion D.
Rain of Fire.
New York: Clarion Books, 1983.
When Steve's older brother Matthew, returning home after service in World War
II, refuses to talk about his wartime experiences, Steve's friends begin to
doubt the stories he has told of Matthew's heroism.
Jane Addams Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1984.
Bauman,
Elizabeth H, and Allan Eitzen.
Coals of Fire.
Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1994.
A children's classic since 1954, Coals of
Fire offers 17 true stories about returning love for hate and good for
evil. It includes fictionalized accounts of true stories, taken from various
cultures and time periods.
Bausum, Ann.
With Courage and Cloth: Winning the Fight
for a Woman's Right to Vote.
Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2004.
This photo-illustrated history tells how women fought for and won the right to
vote in the United States. The book starts with basic history on the struggle
for women's rights, other groups' battles for the vote, and background on the
19th-century women's suffrage movement before focusing on the ultimately
successful 20th-century efforts to enfranchise women. It details and
illustrates the political lobbying and public protests as well as the backlash
against these efforts, including intimidation, imprisonment, hunger strikes,
and forced feeding of prisoners. Carrying cloth banners and with determined
spirits, suffragists marched, picketed, and paraded tirelessly until they were
heard and their rights were inscribed into the Constitution.
Paths of Peace. Oxford University Press, [1920s?]
Four
volumes. Fictionalized tales of peace
leaders, explorers, artists, and social reformers.
Vol. I
includes stories about Quakers George Fox, William Penn, and Elizabeth Fry.
Benary-Isbert,
Margot.
The Ark.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1953. Translated from the German by Richard and
Clara Winston; translation of Die Arche
Noah.
The Lechow family has been forced from their family farm with the transfer of
German land to Poland after World War II. A story of love and reconciliation.
Benary-Isbert,
Margot.
Blue Mystery. Translated from the German by
Richard and Clara Winston.
Illustrated by Enrico Arno.
New York:
Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., 1957.
A mystery story set in a German town: Who had stolen the priceless blue
gloxinia? How had it been taken from the experimental greenhouse? Many people
coveted the plant, perhaps enough to resort to stealing, but only an employee
of the nursery would have had access to it. The evidence pointed strongly to
the young red-haired apprentice, Fridolin. Aloof and sullen, he did little to
defend himself. But ten-year-old Annegret, daughter of the nursery owner, was
not convinced of his guilt
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1957.
The Big Book for Peace. Edited by Ann Durell and
Marilyn Sachs; written by Lloyd Alexander ... [and others]; illustrated by Jon
Agee ... [and others].
New York:
E.P. Dutton Children's Books, 1990.
The wisdom
of peace and the absurdity of fighting are demonstrated in seventeen stories
and poems by outstanding authors including Jean Fritz, Milton Meltzer, and
Nancy Willard, and by famous illustrators such as Paul Zelinsky, the Dillons,
and Maurice Sendak.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1991.
Bloom, Naomi.
Religion. Minneapolis: Dillon Press, 1978.
Six
biographies of women who have made outstanding contributions to religion.
Included are
Anne Hutchinson, Ann Lee, Mary Baker Eddy, Amanda Smith, Henrietta
Szold, and
Dorothy Day.
Blumenthal,
Karen.
Let Me Play:
The Story of Title IX: the Law That Changed the Future of Girls in America. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers,
2005.
Up until the
1970s, if you were a girl, you were told you shouldn't play team
sports, or
go to college. But, in 1972, Title IX changed that, by ensuring that
girls have
the same opportunities as boys to participate in sports and classes.
But that
change did not come without a fight.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award 2006 - Books for Older Children.
Bogot,
Howard, and Norman Gorbaty.
Shalom,
Salaam, Peace.
New York:
Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1999.
An illustrated poem, presented in English, Hebrew, and Arabic, examining the
meaning and
benefits of peace.
Bontemps,
Arna Wendell.
The Story of the Negro. By Arna Bontemps; illustrated
by Raymond Lufkin.
New York :
A. A. Knopf, 1969.
5th ed.
A history of
the black race beginning 1700 B.C., but with special emphasis on conditions in
the Americas beginning with slavery days through the 20th century.
Jane Addams
Peace Association's Children's Book Award, 1956
Bradley,
Duane.
Meeting with a Stranger. Illustrated by E. Harper
Johnson.
Philadelphia;
New York: Lippincott, 1964.
An Ethiopian
boy is doubtful about trusting the American who has come to his small village
to help improve their sheep.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1965.
Brainard,
Eleanor Holston.
Broken Guns. Illustrated by Louise E. Jefferson.
New York: Friendship
Press, 1937.
Antiwar
stories.
Bridges,
Ruby.
Through My
Eyes.
New York:
Scholastic Press, 1999.
Ruby Bridges
recounts the story of her involvement, as a six-year-old, in the
integration
of her school in New Orleans in 1960.
Jane Addams Peace
Association's Children's Book Award, 2001.
Brimner,
Larry Dane.
We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin.
Honesdale, PA:
Calkins Creek, 2007.
Captures a
story of passion, courage, and triumph through Bayard's own words and
archival
photographs, and through spirituals and protest songs that Rustin often
sang.
Working behind the scenes because of his sexual orientation and unpopular
political
stands, African-American pacifist and civil rights activist Bayard
Rustin, a
trusted adviser to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., organized the
1963 March
on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book award, 2008.
Brin, Ruth
Firestone.
Social Reform.
Minneapolis:
Dillon Press, 1977.
Biographies
of American women whose activities in the area of social reform made
a positive
impact on our society.
Brown,
Drollene P.
Belva Lockwood Wins Her Case. Illustrated
by James Watling.
Niles, IL: A
Whitman, 1987.
Describes
the struggles and triumphs of Belva Lockwood, the teacher, suffragist,
lawyer, and
peace activist who became the first woman to practice law before the
Supreme
Court and a candidate for president in 1884 and 1888.
Bryant,
Tamera
Hull-House.
Columbus,
Ohio: Zaner-Bloser, 2007.
The story of
Hull House in Chicago, a haven for early 20th century immigrants, founded by
Jane Addams.
Burch,
Robert.
Queenie Peavy. Illustrated by Jerry Lazare.
New York:
The Viking Press, 1966.
The biggest
troublemaker at school and the best shot in Georgia, Queenie Peavey feels she
has a right to be angry when her father is thrown in jail. But what would
happen if Queenie tried to behave for just one day?
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1967.
Buscher,
Sarah.
Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams: Making Peace in
Northern Ireland. By Sarah
Buscher and
Bettina Ling.
New York:
Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1999.
A joint
biography of two women whose personal experiences with the killings in
Northern
Ireland led them to form the Peace People and work tirelessly to end
the violence
that has long plagued this country.
Buss, Fran
Leeper.
Journey of the Sparrows. By Fran Leeper Buss with
the assistance of Daisy Cubias.
New York:
Lodestar Books, 1991.
Maria and
her brother and sister, Salvadoran refugees, are smuggled into the United
States in crates and try to eke out a living in Chicago with the help of a
sympathetic family.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1992.
Cali,
Davide.
The Enemy: A Book about Peace. By Davide
Cali; illustrated by
Serge Bloch.
New York:
Schwartz & Wade Books, 2009.
After
watching an enemy for a very long time during an endless war, a soldier
finally
creeps out into the night to the other man's hole and is surprised by
what he
finds there.
Caravantes,
Peggy.
Waging Peace: the Story of Jane Addams.
Greensboro,
NC: Morgan Reynolds Pub., 2004.
Biography of
Jane Addams (1860-1935). A social and political activist, she was a founder of
the Hull House settlement in Chicago. She was a pacifist, author, lecturer and
public intellectual, an advocate of women's voting rights, and the first
American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1931). Addams was a founder
of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Grades 5-8.
Carter,
Jimmy
Talking Peace: A Vision for the Next Generation
New York:
Dutton Children's Books, 1993.
From the
former United States president, a global leader and human rights advocate whose
commitment to public service has reached from Georgia to the White House to
developing countries around the world comes a remarkable discussion of the foremost
issue of our time: peace.
Chamberlin,
Ethel Clere.
Heroes of Peace. By Ethel Clere Chamberlin;
illustrated by Margaret M. Head.
New York: G.
Sully Co., 1929.
Short
biographies of: René Robert Cavelier (Sieur de La Salle), William Penn, John
Henry Pestalozzi, Elizabeth Gurney Fry, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Jenny Lind,
Guido Fridolin Verbeck, David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley, Alexander
Graham Bell, Booker T. Washington, Frances Elizabeth Willard, Ferdinand de
Lesseps and George Washington Goethals, Marie Sklodowska Curie, Thomas Alva
Edison, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Orville and Wilbur Wright, Colonel Charles
A. Lindbergh, Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd, and Herbert Clark Hoover
Childress,
Alice.
A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich.
New York:
Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1973.
The life of
a thirteen-year-old Harlem black boy on his way to becoming a confirmed heroin
addict is seen from his viewpoint and from that of several people around him.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1974 (Honor Book).
Clayton, Ed
Martin Luther King: The Peaceful Warrior. By Ed
Clayton; illustrated by David
Hodges.
Englewood
Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1968.
Coerr,
Eleanor.
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. By Eleanor
Coerr; paintings by Ronald
Himler.
New York:
Putnam, 1977.
Hospitalized
with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima
races
against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that
by doing so
a sick person will become healthy.
Cole, Jim
Filtering People: Understanding and Confronting Our
Prejudices. By Jim Cole;
illustrated
by Tom Woodruff; foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Philadelphia,
PA : New Society Publishers, 1990.
This book helps
us identity our prejudices, explore how and why we become prejudiced - and
learn how we can begin to overcome our prejudices.
Darby, Jean
Martin Luther King, Jr. By Jean Darby; in
consultation with Martha Cosgrove.
Minneapolis:
Lerner Publications Co., 2005.
Darraj,
Susan Muaddi.
Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams: Partners for Peace in Northern
Ireland.
Susan Muaddi
Darraj.
New York:
Chelsea House, 2007.
This dual
biography, part of the new Modern Peacemakers series, which profiles the
recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize, focuses on two Irish women who founded the
Community for Peace People.
Davis,
Ossie.
Escape To Freedom: A Play About Young Frederick Douglass.
New York:
Viking Press, 1978, 1976.
Born a
slave, young Frederick Douglass endures many years of cruelty before
escaping to
the North to claim his freedom.
De Kay,
James T.
Meet Martin Luther King, Jr. By James T.
de Kay; illustrated by Ted Burwell.
New York:
Random House, 1969.
A biography
of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, who was largely responsible for uniting African-Americans
in the fight for civil rights in the 1950s and 1960s.
Demi.
Gandhi
New York:
Margaret McElderry Books, 2001.
Author-illustrator
Demi has created a simple, straightforward, and reverent biography of India's
"great soul," Mahatma Gandhi. (Ages 5 to 10) (Annotated by Richard Farr).
Dolphin,
Laurie, and Ben Dolphin.
Neṿeh Shalom = Wāḥat Al-Salām.
New York:
Scholastic Inc, 1993.
Text and
photos present the lives of two boys, one Jewish and one Arab, who
attend
school in a unique community near Jerusalem where Jews and Arabs live
together in
peace. Neve shalom = Oasis of peace.
Dunnahoo,
Terry.
Before the Supreme Court: The Story of Belva Ann Lockwood. By Terry Dunnahoo; illustrated
by Bea
Holmes.
Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Co., 1974.
A biography
of Belva Ann Lockwood, fighter for women's rights, who became the
first woman
to practice law before the Supreme Court and to plead the first case
for a Negro
there.
Eaton,
Jeanette.
Gandhi, Fighter without a Sword. By
Jeannette Eaton; illustrated by Ralph Ray.
New York:
Morrow, 1950.
Ellis,
Deborah
Parvana's Journey.
Toronto;
Berkeley: Groundwood Books, 2002.
Bombs are
falling, and Parvana, 13, leaves Kabul to find her family. Masquerading as a
boy, she travels across Afghanistan. A sequel to The Breadwinner.
Engle,
Margarita.
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom.
New York:
Henry Holt and Co., 2008.
Explores
resistance to slavery and occupation in Cuba in the late 1800's. Allied with
the rebels fighting for independence, Rosa, born a slave and a healer, responds
to bloodshed by healing compatriots and enemies alike.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 2009 - Books for Older Children.
Evans, Eva
Knox
People Are Important. By Eva Knox Evans; illustrated by
Vana Earle.
New York:
Golden Press, 1951.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1953.
Ferrell,
Nancy Warren.
Passports to Peace: Embassies and the Art of Diplomacy.
Minneapolis:
Lerner Publications, 1986.
An overview
of the world of diplomacy, including its history and kinds of jobs
in the
foreign service.
Fireside,
Harvey.
Young People from Bosnia Talk About War. By Harvey
Fireside and Bryna J. Fireside.
Springfield,
NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1996.
Gives a
brief description of the conflict in Bosnia, including several personal
stories of
tragedy told by the young people who lived through them.
Fox, Mary
Virginia.
Pacifists: Adventures in Courage.
Chicago:
Reilly and Lee Books, 1971.
Fradin,
Judith Bloom.
Jane Addams: Champion of Democracy. By Judith
Bloom Fradin and Dennis Brindell
Fradin.
New York:
Clarion Books, c2006.
Most people
know Jane Addams (1860-1935) as the force behind Hull House, one of
the first
settlement houses in the United States. She was also an ardent
suffragist
and civil rights activist, co-founding the National Association for
the
Advancement of Colored People and the American Civil Liberties Union. But it
was her work
as a pacifist that put her in the international spotlight. Although
many people
labeled her "unpatriotic" for her pacifist activities, she was
awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 and, at the time of her death, Jane Addams
was one of
the most respected and admired women in the world...[this account]
draws upon
hundreds of historical documents and archival photographs to create a
revealing
portrait of the woman whose very way of life made her an American
icon.
Franchere,
Ruth.
Cesar Chavez. By Ruth Franchere; illustrated by
Earl Thollander.
New York:
Crowell 1970.
A biography
of the Mexican-American labor leader who led the nation-wide
boycott of
grapes as part of his movement to organize and help farm laborers in
the United
States.
Frankel,
Marvin E
Out of the Shadows of Night: The Struggle for International
Human Rights. By
Marvin
Frankel, with Ellen Saideman.
New York, NY:
Delacorte Press, 1989.
Examines the
history of the modern international human rights movement,
violations
of human rights in Latin America, the Soviet Union, South Africa, and
elsewhere,
and various efforts to prevent or censure such abuses.
Freedman,
Russell.
Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade against Child Labor. By Russell
Freedman;
with photographs by Lewis Hine.
New York:
Clarion Books, 1994.
Using the
work of photographer Lewis Hine throughout, Freedman provides a documentary
account of child labor in America during the early 1900s and the role Lewis
Hine played in the crusade against it. He offers a look at the man behind the
camera, his involvement with the National Child Labor Committee, and the
dangers he faced trying to document unjust labor conditions. (Annotated by Susan Knorr)
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1995 - Books for Older Children.
Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their
Own Stories. By Ellen
Levine;
illustrated with photographs.
Thorndike,
ME: Thorndike Press, 1993.
Filled with
inspiring accounts of faith and courage, this book rescues and preserves the
stories of children and teenagers who contributed to the civil rights movement.
All of us know, for example, of Rosa Parks, whose refusal in 1955 to give up
her seat to a white man on a city bus sparked the Montgomery, Alabama, bus
boycott. Most of us don't know, however, that just months earlier high school
junior Claudette Colvin had been arrested for doing the same thing. In their
own words, Colvin and 29 others tell their stories in this book, reminding us
once again of the broad base that helped ensure the success of the movement in
the South.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1994, Books for Older
Children.
Galt, Margot
Fortunato.
Stop This War! American Protest of the Conflict in Vietnam.
Minneapolis,
Minn.: Lerner Publications, 2000.
A social
history of the protest by United States citizens against the Vietnam
War, from
the days of the first American involvement in Vietnam in the early
1960s
through the 1970s.
Gilbert,
Miriam.
Jane Addams, World Neighbor. By Miriam GiIlbert; illustrated
by Corinne Boyd Dillon.
New York:
Abingdon Press, 1960.
Biography of
Jane Addams (1860-1935). A social and political activist, she was a founder of
the Hull House settlement in Chicago. She was a pacifist, author, lecturer and
public intellectual, an advocate of women's voting rights, and the first
American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1931). Addams was a founder
of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Glaser, Linda.
Emma's Poem: The Voice of the Statue of Liberty. By Linda Glaser; with paintings by Claire A. Nivola.
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2010.
Glaser describes the Emma Lazarus as a child of privilege who was moved by the plight of immigrants in the 1880s. On a visit to Ward's Island, "her heart hurt to see them." She began helping them to learn English and get jobs, and she increased awareness of their plight through her poetry and other writings. Asked, along with other writers of the time such as Mark Twain and Walt Whitman, to write a poem to raise money for a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty, she composed one that became part of the fabric of America. Nivola's delicately composed watercolor and gouache paintings appear in frames on each page, with a few lines of potent text in clean white space either underneath or to the side. The pictures, with their slight folk-art feel, capture both the time and action of the story, while the text illuminates the woman. Grades 2-4. (From School Library Journal review)
Jane Addams Peace Association Children's Book Award, 2011 (Books for Younger Children)
Gleiter,
Jan.
Jane Addams. By Jan Gleiter and Kathleen
Thompson; illustrated by Diane Barton.
Milwaukee:
Raintree Childrens Books, 1988.
Biography of
Jane Addams (1860-1935). A social and political activist, she was a founder of
the Hull House settlement in Chicago. She was a pacifist, author, lecturer and
public intellectual, an advocate of women's voting rights, and the first
American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1931). Addams was a founder
of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Gordon,
Sheila
Waiting for the Rain: a Novel of South Africa.
New York:
Orchard Books, 1987
Chronicles
nine years in the lives of two South African youths--one black, one white--as
their friendship ends in a violent confrontation between student and soldier.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1988.
Greenebaum,
Louise G.
Politics and Government.
Minneapolis:
Dillon Press, 1977.
Biographies
of American women who have been involved in politics and government
at various
levels.
Greenfield,
Eloise.
Paul Robeson. By Eloise Greenfield; illustrated by George Ford.
New York:
Crowell, 1975.
A biography
of the pacifist, singer, actor, and spokesman for equal rights for
African-Americans.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1976.
Gugler,
Laurel Dee.
A Piece of Forever.
Toronto: J.
Lorimer, 2008.
As her
school class prepares for Veterans Day, Rose feels increasing like an outcast.
Some classmates have taunted her about her family’s pacifist stance, but it
really hurts when her best friend says that Mennonites aren’t patriotic because
they refuse to fight for their country. Navigating schoolyard taunts and her
own hurt feelings, Rose struggles to decide what she personally believes and
how to stand up for her convictions. Set in 1956, the story will resonate with
many children today, as the basic moral and human issues still stand. Rose’s
delivery of her message before an assembly of veterans may seem contrived, and,
in a way, it is. But Rose is a convincing character even as she struggles to
articulate her position, and Gugler’s quiet, nuanced storytelling shows
understanding for different and equally heartfelt points of view on a divisive
issue. A school report on Sadako and the thousand paper cranes becomes a focal
point for healing within the narrative. Grades 3-6. --(Annotated by Carolyn Phelan)
Habenstreit,
Barbara.
Men Against War.
Garden City,
NY: Doubleday, 1973.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1974 (Honor Book).
Stories about pacifists, including
Jane Addams, Martin Luther King, Lilian Wald, and Henry Thoreau.
Hagedorn,
Hermann.
The Book Of Courage. By Hermann Hagedorn; illustrations by Frank Godwin,
maps by
Edwin C. Eirich.
Philadelphia:
Winston, 1929.
Hamanaka,
Sheila.
Peace Crane.
New York:
Morrow Junior Books, 1995.
This poem
takes its inspiration from the true story of 12-year-old Sadako Sasaki,
familiar to the many readers of Eleanor Coerr's novel Sadako and the Thousand
Paper Cranes…Dying of leukemia caused by the bombing of Hiroshima, Sadako began
to make origami cranes, encouraged by the Japanese belief that folding a
thousand paper cranes will bring good health… An African American girl asks,
"If I make a paper peace crane/ from a crisp white paper square,/ if I
fold my dreams inside the wings,/ will anybody care?" Explaining her fears
of the shootings on her street, the child confides that Peace Crane came for
her in a dream, and together they flew over mountains, forests and oceans,
where they listened to "lullabies sung by whales till our troubles
disappeared." (Publisher's Weekly review)
Hamilton,
Virginia.
Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive Slave.
New York:
A.A. Knopf, 1988.
A biography
of the slave who escaped to Boston in 1854, was arrested at the
instigation
of his owner, and whose trial caused a furor between abolitionists
and those
determined to enforce the Fugitive Slave Acts.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1989.
Harder,
Geraldine Gross.
When Apples Are Ripe: The Story of Clayton Kratz. By
Geraldine Gross Harder;
drawings by
Allan Eitzen.
Scottdale,
PA: Herald Press, 1971.
The true story, semi-fictionalized,
of Clayton Kratz (b. 1896), a Pennsylvania Mennonite who was arrested in 1920
and disappeared while on a Mennonite relief mission in revolutionary Russia.
Harrison,
Deloris.
We Shall Live In Peace: The Teachings of Martin Luther King,
Jr.. Edited, and
with commentary,
by Deloris Harrison; illustrated by Ernest Crichlow.
New York:
Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1968.
Brief
chronicle of the beliefs and ideas of Martin Luther King as expressed in
his speeches
through the years. Excerpts from the speeches are introduced by a
description
of the events which prompted them. Also
includes a short biography.
Harvey,
Bonnie C.
Jane Addams: Nobel Prize Winner and Founder of Hull House.
Berkeley
Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1999.
Describes
the life of the woman whose devotion to social work and human rights
led to her
establishing Hull House in Chicago. She was awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize in
1931.
Haskins,
James.
Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights
Movement.
New York:
Hyperion Books for Children, 1997.
A biography
of Bayard Rustin, a skillful organizer behind the scenes of the
American
civil rights movement whose ideas stongly influenced Martin Luther King,
Jr.
Haskins,
James.
Ralph Bunche; a Most Reluctant Hero.
New York:
Hawthorn Books, 1974.
A biography
of the first black American to receive a Ph. D. in political science,
the first to
hold a high position in the State Department, and the first to win
the Nobel
Peace Prize.
Haskins,
James.
Resistance: Profiles in Nonviolence.
Garden City,
NY: Doubleday, 1970.
Discusses
the concept of nonviolence as practised by eight famous people,
including
Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez, and Jesus of Nazareth.
Haskins,
James.
Delivering Justice: W.W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights. By Jim
Haskins;
illustrated
by Benny Andrews.
Cambridge,
MA: Candlewick Press, 2005.
W.W. Law, a
mail carrier by trade and a courageous activist by conviction, catalyzed and
led his community in the peaceful integration of all public facilities in
Savannah, Georgia in the 1940s and well beyond.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award,2006 - Books for Younger Children.
Haugaard,
Erik Christian.
The Little Fishes. By Erik Christian Haugaard; Illustrated
by Milton Johnson.
Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Co., 1967.
A tale of
the tragedy of war: the story of a twelve-year-old orphaned beggar in
occupied
Italy, his daily search for food and for meaning in the life he
witnesses,
and the development of compassion and understanding that will help
him survive.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1968.
Hautzig,
Esther Rudomin.
The Endless Steppe: Growing Up In Siberia.
New York: Thomas
Y. Crowell Company, 1968.
During World
War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family
were
arrested in Poland by the Soviets as political enemies and exiled to
Siberia. She
recounts here the trials of the following five years spent on the
harsh Asian
steppe.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1969.
Hess,
Ingrid.
Walk in Peace.
Scottdale, PA:
Herald Press, 2009.
Walk in
Peace reflects the wish of parents around the globe as they send their little
ones off to school, to play, to do chores, to encounter an unfamiliar world.
Moms and Dads assure their children of God's love and protection, reminding
them to Walk in Peace. For pre-schoolers.
Highwater,
Jamake.
Many Smokes, Many Moons: A Chronology of American Indian History
through Indian
Art.
Philadelphia:
Lippincott, 1978.
With
emphasis on the tribes in North America, uses the art and artifacts of
various
Indian cultures to illustrate events affecting their history from
earliest
times through 1973.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1979.
Hirsch, S.
Carl
The Riddle of Racism.
New York:
Viking Press, 1972.
Traces the
history of research on race, showing how it both influenced and was influenced
by the political and social significance of race in United States history.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1973.
Hoose,
Phillip M.
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice.
New York:
Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar Straus Giroux, 2009.
On March 2,
1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of
Jim Crow
segregation, refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated
bus in
Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of being celebrated as Rosa Parks would be
just nine
months later, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin found herself shunned
by her
classmates and dismissed by community leaders. Undaunted, a year later
she dared to
challenge segregation again as a key plaintiff in Browder v. Gayle,
the landmark
case that struck down the segregation laws of Montgomery and swept
away the
legal underpinnings of the Jim Crow South. Based on extensive
interviews
with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the
first
in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure,
skillfully
weaving her dramatic story into the fabric of the historic Montgomery
bus boycott
and court case that would change the course of American history.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 2010, Books for Older
Children
(Honor Book).
Hughes, Lynn
Gordon.
To Live a Truer Life: a Story of the Hopedale Community. By Lynn
Gordon Hughes;
illustrated
by Lindro.
Providence,
RI: Blackstone Editions, 2003.
In the
utopian community of Hopedale, Massachusetts in 1855, eight-year-old mail
carrier
Susie Thwing makes her rounds and introduces readers to her town.
I Don't Understand This World Right Now: Children's Writings
and Drawings On
War and Peace.
Ithaca, NY:
Ithaca Peace Council, 1982.
Johnson, Jen
Cullerton.
Seeds of Change: Planting a Path to Peace. By Jen
Cullerton Johnson;
illustrated
by Sonia Lynn Sadler.
New York:
Lee & Low Books, 2010.
A biography
of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmentalist Wangari
Maathai, a
female scientist who made a stand in the face of opposition to
women's
rights and her own Greenbelt Movement, an effort to restore Kenya's
ecosystem by
planting millions of trees.
Kadohata,
Cynthia.
Weedflower
New York:
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2006.
After
twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from
their flower
farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave
Indian
reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with
a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 2007 - Books for Older Children.
Katz, Karen.
Can You Say Peace?
New York:
Henry Holt, 2006.
International
Peace Day is September 21. On this day and every day throughout the year,
children all over the world wish for peace. This book takes readers on a bright
and colorful journey around the globe to meet some of these children and to
learn about the many ways to say "peace" in twenty-two different
languages.
Kennedy,
John F.
Profiles in Courage.
New York:
Harper and Row, Publishers, 1964, 1961.
Young
readers memorial edition, abridged,
Written in
1955 by the future President of the United States, John F. Kennedy's Profiles
in Courage served as a clarion call to every American. The inspiring true
accounts of eight unsung heroic acts by American patriots at different
junctures in our nation's history, Kennedy's book became required reading, an
instant classic, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Now, a half-century later,
it remains a moving, powerful, and relevant testament to the indomitable
national spirit and an unparalleled celebration of that most noble of human
virtues.
This special
"P.S." edition of Profiles in Courage commemorates the
fiftieth anniversary of the book's publication. Included in this new edition,
along with vintage photographs and an extensive author biography, are Kennedy's
correspondence about the writing project, contemporary reviews of the book, a
letter from Ernest Hemingway, and two rousing speeches from recipients of the
Profile in Courage Award.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1964.
Kent,
Deborah.
Jane Addams and Hull House.
Chicago:
Childrens Press, 1992.
A biography
of the social worker who defended the oppressed, promoted education
for the
poor, worked for world peace, and founded Hull House, a settlement house
in the
industrial slums of Chicago.
Kherdian,
David.
The Road from Home: The Story of an Armenian Girl.
New York:
Greenwillow Books, 1979.
A biography
of the author's mother during her childhood in Turkey before the
Turkish
government deported its Armenian population.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1980.
King,
Coretta Scott.
My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr.
New York:
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1993.
This revised
edition of Coretta Scott King's 1969
autobiography contains some new information and insights, but its principal
change is in the language and terminology. As in the earlier version, she
describes growing up in rural Alabama, meeting her husband, their family life,
and their work in the civil rights movement. Sixteen pages of black-and-white
photographs illustrate the Kings' private and public life; included are photos
of her and their four children participating in more recent struggles. An
introduction by the children and a new preface offer advice and a broad context
for contemporary readers. Grade 7-12 . (Annotation by Lyn Miller-Lachmann).
Kishel, Ann-Marie.
Jane Addams: a Life of Cooperation.
Minneapolis,
MN: Lerner Publications Co., 2007.
Biography of
Jane Addams (1860-1935). A social and political activist, she was a founder of
the Hull House settlement in Chicago. She was a pacifist, author, lecturer and
public intellectual, an advocate of women's voting rights, and the first
American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1931). Addams was a founder
of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Kittredge,
Mary.
Jane Addams. By Mary Kittredge; introductory
essay by Matina S. Horner.
New York:
Chelsea House, 1988.
Biography of
Jane Addams (1860-1935). A social and political activist, she was a founder of
the Hull House settlement in Chicago. She was a pacifist, author, lecturer and
public intellectual, an advocate of women's voting rights, and the first
American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1931). Addams was a founder
of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Koehn, Ilse.
Mischling, Second Degree: My Childhood in Nazi Germany.
New York:
Greenwillow Books, 1977.
The memoirs
of a German girl who became a leader among the Hitler Youth while her Social
Democratic family kept from her the secret of her partial Jewish heritage.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1978 (Honor Book)
Krull,
Kathleen.
Harvesting Hope: the Story of Cesar Chavez. By Kathleen
Krull; illustrated by
Yuyi
Morales.
San Diego:
Harcourt, Inc., 2003.
A biography
of labor leader Cesar Chavez, from age ten when he and his family lived happily
on their
Arizona ranch, to age thirty-eight when he led a peaceful protest
against
California migrant workers' miserable working conditions.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 2004, Picture Books category.
Krull,
Kathleen.
Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's
Fastest Woman. By Kathleen
Krull;
illustrated by David Diaz.
San Diego:
Harcourt Brace, 1996.
A biography
of the African-American woman who overcame crippling polio as a
child to
become the first woman to win three gold medals in track in a single
Olympics.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1997, Picture Book category.
Kuhn, Betsy.
Gay Power!: the Stonewall Riots and the Gay Rights Movement,
1969.
Minneapolis,
MN: Twenty-First Century Books, 2011.
After
resisting authorities on the night of June 28, 1969, when police raided the
Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City… this uprising gave birth to a new
liberation movement. Gay men and women organized, demonstrated for their
rights, and celebrated their sexual identities. They opened gay bookstores,
held gay dances, and lobbied politicians to change laws that discriminated
against them. Most important, they no longer lived their lives in secret.
Lambilly-Bresson,
Élisabeth de.
Gandhi: His Life, His Struggles, His Words. Illustrated by Severine Cordier; translated
by Robert Brent.
New York:
Enchanted Lion Books, 2010.
Originally
published in French.
Dramatic and
highly readable, this biography will hook readers from the start with a long
comic strip about a crucial incident in Gandhi’s life: while working as a
lawyer in South Africa, he was literally thrown off a train for sitting in the
whites-only carriage. Twelve short prose chapters follow with details of the
leader’s life story, from his early years in a well-off Hindu family in Bombay
under the British Empire, through his many years spent in prison for his
activism in India’s struggle for independence and his drive to end the
rejection of the untouchables. Color illustrations and black-and-white photos
appear on every spread, as well as boxed facts about the Hindu religion, the
caste system, the British in India, and much more. The historical facts are as
compelling as the biographical story, and the message of nonviolence will spark
intense debate about political action, then and now. The end matter includes a
bibliography and 10 spacious pages of quotes by and about Gandhi. Grades 6-10. Annotated
by Hazel Rochman).
Lee-Tai, Amy.
A Place Where Sunflowers Grow = Sabaku Ni Saita Himawari. By Amy
Lee-Tai;
illustrations,
Felicia Hoshino; Japanese translation, Marc Akio Lee.
San
Francisco, CA: Children's Book Press, 2006.
While she
and her family are interned at Topaz Relocation Center during World
War II, Mari
gradually adjusts as she enrolls in an art class, makes a friend, plants
sunflowers and waits for them to grow.
Parallel
text in English and Japanese.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 2007 - Books for Younger Children.
Lehn,
Cornelia.
Peace Be With You. By Cornelia Lehn; illustrated by
Keith R. Neely.
Newton, KS:
Faith and Life Press, c1980.
Stories
about peace leaders from the first century A.D. to the twentieth century.
Levoy, Myron.
Alan and Naomi.
New York:
Harper & Row, 1977.
In New York
of the 1940's a boy tries to befriend a girl traumatized by Nazi brutality in
France.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1978
Lieberman,
Mark.
The Pacifists: Soldiers without Guns.
New York:
Praeger, 1972.
Lifton,
Betty Jean.
Children of Vietnam. By Betty Jean Lifton and Thomas C.
Fox; Illustrated by Thomas C. Fox.
New York:
Atheneum, 1972.
Ling,
Bettina.
Aung San Suu Kyi: Standing Up for Democracy in Burma.
New York:
Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1999.
A biography
which traces the life of the Burmese political activist who was
awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.
Littlechild,
George.
This Land is My Land.
Emeryville, CA:
Children's Book Press, 1993.
Using text
and his own paintings, the author describes the experiences of Indians of North
America in general as well as his experiences growing up as a Plains Cree
Indian in Canada.
Lloyd,
Norris.
The Village that Allah Forgot: a Story of Modern Tunisia. By Norris
Lloyd; illustrated by Ed
Piechocki.
New York:
Hastings House, 1973.
A twelve-year-old
Tunisian boy helps demonstrate to his village that Allah will
not forget
to help them if they try to help themselves.
Lobingier,
Elizabeth Erwin Miller.
Ship East--Ship West.
New York: Friendship
Press, 1931.
Lord, Athena
V.
A Spirit to Ride the Whirlwind.
New York:
Macmillan, 1981.
Twelve-year-old
Binnie, whose mother runs a company boarding house in Lowell, Massachusetts,
begins working in a textile mill and is caught up in the 1836 strike of women
workers.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1982.
MacNair,
Rachel.
History Shows: Winning with Nonviolent Action.
Philadelphia:
Xlibris, 2004.
Maher, Jan.
Most Dangerous Women: Bringing History to Life through
Readers' Theater.
Portsmouth,
NH: Heinemann, 2006.
A unique gift for teachers . . . a play in which an extraordinary
assemblage of women speak about war and peace. They speak in clear and
compelling language, often with song and poetry, and what they tell their
audience both educates and inspires. If Most Dangerous Women were performed in schools across the
country, we might well see a new generation of young people dedicated to ending
the scourge of war. (From a review by Howard Zinn).
Mansfield,
Sue.
Some Reasons for War: How Families, Myths, and Warfare Are Connected. By Sue
Mansfield
and Mary Bowen Hall.
New York:
Crowell, 1988.
Presents
theories based on human psychology of why we have wars, tracing the
history of
war from neolithic times to the present.
Marshall,
Rachelle.
Vietnam's Struggle for Independence: America's Longest War.
Philadelphia:
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 1975.
Maruki,
Toshi.
Hiroshima No Pika.
New York:
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1982, 1980.
A retelling
of a mother's account of what happened to her family during the
atomic
bombing that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.
McCully,
Emily Arnold.
The Escape of Oney Judge.
New York:
Farrar Straus Giroux, 2007.
When General
George Washington is elected the first President of the United States, his wife
chooses young Oney Judge, a house slave who works as a seamstress at Mount
Vernon, to travel with her to the nation's capital in New York City as her
personal maid. When the capital is moved to Philadelphia, the Washingtons and
Oney move, too, and there Oney meets free blacks for the first time. At first
Oney can't imagine being free -- she
depends on the Washingtons for food, warmth, and clothing. But then Mrs.
Washington tells Oney that after her death she will be sent to live with Mrs.
Washington's granddaughter. Oney is
horrified
because she knows it is likely that she will then be sold to a stranger, the
worst fate she can imagine. Oney realizes she must run. One day she sees an
opportunity and takes it, ending up in New Hampshire, where she lives the rest
of her life, poor but free.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 2008.
McCutcheon,
John.
Christmas in the Trenches. By story by John McCutcheon;
illustrations by Henri Sørensen.
Atlanta:
Peachtree, 2006.
A World War
I veteran tells his grandson of his experiences in 1914, when
British and
German soldiers declared a truce from fighting to celebrate
Christmas
together. Includes an audio CD with a reading of the book and the
music on
which it is based, by John McCutcheon.
McGill, Alice.
Molly Bannaky. By Alice McGill; pictures by Chris
K. Soentpiet.
Boston, MA:
Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Fictional
account of how Benjamin Banneker's grandmother journeyed from England
to Maryland
in the late seventeenth century, worked as an indentured servant,
began a farm
of her own, and married a freed slave. Benjamin Banneker was educated in a Quaker school near Joppa, Md.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 2000 Picture Book category.
McKissack,
Pat.
A Long Hard Journey: The Story of the Pullman Porter. By
Patricia and
Fredrick McKissack.
New York:
Walker, 1989.
A chronicle
of the first black-controlled union, made up of Pullman porters who
after years
of unfair labor practices staged a battle against a corporate giant
resulting in
a "David and Goliath" ending.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1990, Children's Book category.
McPhail,
David.
No!
New York:
Roaring Brook Press, 2009.
In this
almost wordless picture book, a small boy sets out to deliver a letter
and
witnesses acts of war on his way. Repeated three times, "No" is the
only
word in this
book. No! dramatizes conflict and its
alternatives in a language
that's
accessible to everyone…
McPherson,
Stephanie Sammartino.
Peace and Bread: the Story of Jane Addams.
Minneapolis:
Carolrhoda Books, 1993.
A biography
of the woman who founded Hull-House, one of the first settlement
houses in
the United States, and who later became involved in the international
peace
movement.
Meigs,
Cornelia.
Jane Addams, Pioneer for Social Justice; a Biography.
Boston,
Little, Brown 1970.
A history of
Hull House and the many social reforms it inspired serve as a
background
to a biography of the woman who dedicated her life to improving
society.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1970.
Meltzer,
Milton.
Ain't Gonna Study War No More: The Story of America's Peace
Seekers.
New York:
Random House, 2002.
Presents a
history of pacifism and those who have protested against war,
concentrating
on war resistance in the United States from colonial days to the
present and
concerns about nuclear arms and terrorism.
Originally
published in 1985.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1986.
Meltzer,
Milton.
Never to Forget: the Jews of the Holocaust.
New York:
Harper & Row, 1976.
Making
impressive use of numerous firsthand quotes, Meltzer paints a stirring and
personal portrait of a horrific period. Ages 12-up (From Publishers Weekly)
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1977.
Meyer, Edith
Patterson.
Champions of Peace: Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. By Edith
Patterson Meyer; illustrated by Eric von Schmidt.
Boston:
Little, Brown, 1959.
Since it was
first awarded in 1901, only twelve women have won the Nobel Prize for Peace.
They hail from all over the world, including the United States, Europe, Asia,
the Middle East, Africa, and Central America. Engaging and inspiring, these
women clearly demonstrate that there is something each of us can do to advance
a just, positive peace. Whether they began by insisting on garbage collection
or simply by planting a tree, each understood that peace must be global in
order to be sustained. All learned that peace is not always popular, but
believed they must persevere. All are truly champions for peace.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1960.
Meyer, Edith
Patterson.
In Search of Peace: the Winners of the Nobel Peace Prize,
1901-1975.
By Edith
Patterson
Meyer; illustrated by Billie Jean Osborne.
Nashville:
Abingdon, 1978.
Presents
information about the individuals and organizations who have been
recipients
of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Michelson,
Richard.
As Good As Anybody: Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham
Joshua Heschel's Amazing
March Toward Freedom. By Richard Michelson; illustrated by
Raul Colón.
New York:
A.A. Knopf, 2008.
The story of
two icons for social justice, how they formed a remarkable
friendship
and turned their personal experiences of discrimination into a
message of
love and equality for all.
Miller,
Calvin Craig.
No Easy Answers: Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights
Movement.
Greensboro, NC:
Morgan Reynolds Pub., 2005.
Looks at the
life of Bayard Rustin, an organizer behind the scenes of the civil
rights
movement whose ideas influenced Martin Luther King, Jr. Rustin - grandson
of a former
slave - was a talented musician, writer, and committed activist and
organizer
who worked closely with such activists as Martin Luther King Jr. and
A. Philip
Randolph. He was responsible for introducing Gandhi's principles of
nonviolent
protest to many in the civil rights movement, and was a backbone of
the historic
1963 March on Washington.
Mitchell,
Pratima.
Petar's Song. By Pratima Mitchell; illustrated
by Caroline Binch.
London:
Frances Lincoln, 2003.
Petar loves
music, and his violin keeps the whole village dancing. But when war breaks out,
Petar, his mother, and his brother have to flee the village to safety, leaving
their beloved father behind with the other men. With no place to live, and no
food or money, life is hard for the family. Petar is so sad that he can no
longer play his violin. One day a new song starts to form in his head, a song
of peace and new beginnings. Will he find the courage to play it?
Mohr,
Nicholasa.
Nilda: a Novel.
Houston:
Arte Publico Press, 1986.
A young girl
growing up in Spanish Harlem in the 1940's watches the secure world of her
childhood years slowly erode.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1974.
Moore,
Roberta.
The Problem of War: a Global Issue. By Roberta
Moore and Joseph Moore.
Rochelle
Park, NJ: Hayden Book Co., 1980.
Examines the
effects and causes of war and various means of preventing it.
Munson,
Derek.
Enemy Pie. By Derek Munson; illustrated by
Tara Calahan King.
San
Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2000.
Hoping that
the enemy pie which his father makes will help him get rid of his
enemy, a
little boy finds that instead it helps make a new friend. It was the
perfect
summer. That is, until Jeremy Ross moved into the house down the street
and became
neighborhood enemy number one. Luckily Dad had a surefire way to get
rid of
enemies: Enemy Pie. But part of the secret recipe is spending an entire
day playing
with the enemy! In this funny yet endearing story, one little boy
learns an
effective recipes for turning your best enemy into your best friend.
Enemy Pie serves up a sweet lesson in the difficulties
& ultimate rewards of making new friends.
Murphy, Jim.
Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting.
New York:
Scholastic Press, 2009.
Describes
the Christmas truce that occurred along Western Front trenches in 1914
and features
quotations from young men on both sides, a timeline, and additional
source
material. Includes many excellent photographs, artists' depictions of the
truce, and
maps.
Muth, Jon J.
The Three Questions.
New York:
Scholastic Press, 2002.
Nikolai asks
his animal friends to help him answer three important questions:
"When
is the best time to do things?" "Who is the most important?" and
"What is
the right
thing to do?" Based on a story by Leo Tolstoy.
Myers,
Walter Dean.
Patrol: an American Soldier in Vietnam. By Walter
Dean Myers; collages by Ann
Grifalconi.
New York:
HarperCollins Publishers, 2002.
A frightened
American soldier faces combat in the forests of Vietnam.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 2003.
Naidoo,
Beverley.
The Other Side of Truth.
New York:
HarperTrophy, 2003, 2000.
Smuggled out
of Nigeria after their mother's murder, Sade and her younger
brother are
abandoned in London when their uncle fails to meet them at the
airport and
they are fearful of their new surroundings and of what may have
happened to
their journalist father back in Nigeria.
Originally
published: London: Puffin Books, 2000.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 2002 - Books for Older Children.
Naidoo,
Beverley.
Out Of Bounds: Seven Stories of Conflict and Hope.
New York:
HarperCollins, 2003.
South
African apartheid and its aftermath are experienced and challenged, decade by
decade, by young, courageous protagonists whose portrayals cross races,
classes, and genders. These stories were written by once-exiled South African Beverley
Naidoo.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 2004, Books for Older Children.
Napoli,
Donna Jo.
Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya. By Donna
Jo Napoli ;
illustrated
by Kadir Nelson.
New York:
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2010.
The story of
Wangari Maathai, who in 1977 founded the Green Belt Movement, an
African
grassroots organization, and in 2004 was the first African woman to be
awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize.
Naylor,
Phyllis Reynolds.
King of the Playground. By Phyllis Reynolds Naylor;
illustrated by Nola Langner Malone.
New York:
Atheneum, 1991.
Kevin learns
to deal with a bossy contemporary at the neighborhood playground.
Near, Holly.
The Great Peace March. By Holly Near; paintings by Lisa
Desimini.
New York:
Henry Holt, 1993.
An
illustrated version of a song celebrating the brotherhood of humanity and the
possibility
of world peace.
Includes
treble music notation on the last two pages.
Neville,
Emily Cheney.
Berries Goodman.
New York:
Harper and Row, Publishers, 1965.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1966.
Newnham,
Thomas Oliver.
The Kiwi Who Walked on Water. By Tom
Newnham; with pictures by Hotspur.
Auckland, NZ:
Graphic Publications; Garret Press, 1985.
Nivola,
Claire A.
Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai.
New York:
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008.
The story of
Wangari Maathai, winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and
founder of
the Green Belt Movement, Wangari came
home from college to find the
streams dry,
the people malnourished, and the trees gone. How could she alone
bring back
the trees and restore the gardens and the people?
Jane Addams
Children's Book award for 2009: Books for Younger Children.
Norgren,
Jill.
Belva Lockwood: Equal Rights Pioneer.
Minneapolis,
MN: Twenty-First Century Books, 2009.
Belva
Lockwood was the first woman to practice law before the U.S. Supreme
Court. In
1884 and 1888, she ran for president of the United States with the
Equal Rights
Party, even though women still weren't allowed to vote. She worked
on behalf of
American Indians and the international peace movement--From the
book jacket.
Northcroft,
Dorothea Mary.
American Girls of Adventure.
London: F.
Muller, 1947.
Nye, Naomi
Shihab.
Habibi.
New York:
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1997
When
fourteen-year-old Liyanne Abboud, her younger brother, and her parents move
from St. Louis to a new home between Jerusalem and the Palestinian village
where her father was born, they face many changes and must deal with the
tensions between Jews and Palestinians.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1998 - Books for Older Children
category.
Nye, Naomi
Shihab.
Sitti's Secrets. By Naomi Shihab Nye; illustrated
by Nancy Carpenter.
New York:
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1994.
A young girl
describes a visit to see her grandmother in a Palestinian village
on the West
Bank.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1995 - Picture Books category.
O'Brien,
Mary Barmeyer.
Jeannette Rankin, 1880-1973: Bright Star in the Big Sky
Helena, MT:
Falcon Press, 1995.
Chronicles
the life of pacifist Jeannette Rankin of Montana (1880-1973), the
first woman elected to the United States Congress. She voted against U.S. entry
into both World War I and World War II -- the only "no" vote to World
War II.
Once Upon a Time: 1992 peace calendar: an
illustrated selection of children's
books
concerning peace, justice and the environment. Edited by Pauline Lurie;
with advice
from Benjamin Spock and comments from Robert Coles.
New York:
War Resisters League; Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1991.
Pack,
Charlotte.
Finding the Friendship Dolls: A True Story: How Children Can
Help Create World
Peace through Toys.
Wilmington,
OH: Peace Resource Center, 2010.
Narrated
from a doll's point of view, this story is based on a true incident.
In 1926 with
tensions rising between the two countries, America sent 12,730
Friendship
Dolls to Japan. Ellen C. was one of those dolls who were assigned a
mission of
peace. Follow Ellen as she journeys from Wilmington, Ohio to Nagasaki,
Japan and
learns the ways friendship can overcome even war.
Park, Linda Sue.
A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story.
Clarion Books, 2010.
Salva and Nya have difficult paths to walk in life. Salva's journey, based on a true story, begins in 1985 with an explosion. The boy's small village in Sudan erupts into chaos while the 11-year-old is in school, and the teacher tells the children to run away. Salva leaves his family and all that is familiar and begins to walk. Sometimes he walks alone and sometimes there are others. They are walking toward a refugee camp in Ethiopia, toward perceived safety. However, the camp provides only temporary shelter from the violent political storm. In 1991-'92, thousands are killed as they try to cross a crocodile-infested river when they are forced out of the country; Salva survives and gets 1200 boys to safety in Kenya. Nya's life in 2008 revolves around water. She spends eight hours a day walking to and from a pond. In the dry season, her family must uproot themselves and relocate to the dry lake bed where they dig in the mud until water eventually trickles out. For grades 5-8. (From School Library Journal review)
Jane Addams Peace Association Children's Book Award, 2011. (Books for Older Children)
Parks,
Deborah A.
Jane Addams: Freedom's Innovator.
Alexandria,
VA: Time Life Education, 1999.
Examines the
life and times of Jane Addams who, in 1889, established in Hull
House one of
the first settlement houses in America and later became the first
American
woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Parr, Todd.
The Peace Book.
New York:
Little, Brown, 2004.
Describes
peace as making new friends, sharing a meal, feeling good about
yourself,
and more.
Partridge,
Elizabeth.
Marching For Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You
Grow Weary.
New York:
Viking, 2009.
This book
recounts the three months of protest that took place before Dr. Martin
Luther King,
Jr.'s landmark march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery to promote
equal rights
and help African-Americans earn the right to vote.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 2010, Books for Older Children category.
Patterson,
Lillie.
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man of Peace. By Lillie
Patterson; illustrated by Victor Mays.
Champaign,
IL: Garrard Pub. Co. 1969.
A biography
of the minister, orator, and crusader for equal civil rights who was
awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.
Pease,
Margaret.
True Patriotism and Other Lessons on Peace and
Internationalism.
London: The
Pilgrim Press, 1911.
Peduzzi,
Kelli.
Oscar Arias: Peacemaker and Leader among Nations. By Kelli
Peduzzi with
assistance
from Ronnie Cummins.
Milwaukee:
G. Stevens Children's Books, 1991.
A biography
of the Costa Rican president who won the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize for
his
successful efforts in promoting a peace plan for Central America.
Pinkney,
Andrea Davis.
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down. By Andrea
Davis Pinkney;
illustrated
by Brian Pinkney.
New York: Little,
Brown, 2010.
This compelling picture book is
based on the historic sit-in 50 years ago by four college students who tried to
integrate a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Food-related wordplay adds layers to the free verse, as in the lines about the
protesters’ recipe for integration: “Combine black with white. By to make sweet
justice.” The double-page spreads in watercolor and thick ink lines show both
the scene in Woolworth’s and across America as blacks and whites organize
sit-ins and watch coverage of protests on TV. Finally, the young people at the
counter get what they order, “served to them exactly the way they wanted
it––well done.” The recipe metaphors are repetitive, but at the core of the
exciting narrative are scenes that show the difficulty of facing hatred:
“tougher than any school test.” Closing pages discuss the role of adults,
including Ella Baker and then presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and include a
detailed civil rights time line, “a final helping” about the historic struggle,
and a bibliography. Even young children will grasp the powerful, elemental, and
historic story of those who stood up to oppressive authority and changed the
world. Grades 2-4. -- (School Library
Journal review)
Jane Addams Peace Association Children's Book Award, 2011. (Honor Book)
Plant,
Richard.
S.O.S. Geneva. By Richard Plant and Oskar Seidlin;
with twenty-nine drawings
by William Pène
du Bois.
New York:
The Viking Press, 1939.
Fictionalized
tales of peace-building, and a plea to support the League of Nations.
Pomerantz,
Charlotte.
The Princess and the Admiral. By
Charlotte Pomerantz; drawings by Tony
Chen.
Reading, MA:
Addison-Wesley, 1974.
When a fleet
of warships attacks the Tiny Kingdom on the eve of its celebration
of a hundred
years of peace, the princess uses the tides to salvage the kingdom's record and
celebration.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1975.
Ponce,
Antonella.
Las Casas son Para Vivir, Que No Vuelva la Guerra.
Panama: Centro
de Estudios Latinoamericanos, 1991.
About the
1989 American invasion of Panama, and children's rights.
Raatma,
Lucia.
Jane Addams.
Minneapolis,
MN: Compass Point Books, 2004.
A biography
of Jane Addams, who established Hull-House in Chicago in 1889 to provide
medical and legal services, educational opportunities, and social interactions
to immigrants and other victims of poverty.
Radunsky,
Vladimir.
What Does Peace Feel Like?
New York:
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2004.
Simple text
and illustrations portray what peace looks, sounds, tastes, feels,
and smells
like to children around the world.
Rappaport,
Doreen.
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. By Doreen Rappaport;
illustrated
by Bryan Collier.
New York:
Hyperion Books for Children, 2001.
This
picture-book biography provides an introduction to civil rights leader Martin
Luther King and his works. Juxtaposing original text with quotes from King's
writing and speeches, Rappaport's narrative offers a pastiche of scenes from
King's life, beginning with his childhood experience of seeing "White
Only" signs sprinkled throughout his hometown. He questions his mother
about their meaning, and she assures him, "You are as good as
anyone." Listening to his father preach, the boy asserts that "When I
grow up, I'm going to get big words, too." Rappaport also touches upon
King's role in the Montgomery bus strike that followed Rosa Park's 1955 arrest
for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger and his subsequent
efforts as a civil rights crusader…. Ages 5-9. (From the Publisher's Weekly review).
Raschka,
Christopher.
R And [R]: A Story about Two Alphabets.
Elgin, IL:
Brethren Press, 1990.
Parallel
texts in English and Russian, bound back to back and upside down.
Raum,
Elizabeth.
Jane Addams.
Chicago:
Heinemann Library, 2003.
A biography
for younger children about the social activist known for founding
Hull House
in Chicago and for winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
Reiss,
Johanna.
The Upstairs Room.
New York:
Crowell, 1972.
The
autobiographical account of a Dutch Jewish girl describing the two-and-one-half
years she spent in hiding in the upstairs bedroom of a farmer's house during
World War II. Continued by the author's The
Journey Back.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1973 (Honor Book)
Riley, John.
Jane Addams: A Photo Biography.
Greensboro, NC:
First Biographies, 2000.
Describes
the life and work of the woman whose work to help the poor in Chicago
and around
the world won her the Nobel Peace Prize.
Ringgold,
Faith.
Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky.
New York:
Dragonfly Books, 1992.
With Harriet
Tubman as her guide, Cassie retraces the steps escaping slaves took
on the Underground
Railroad in order to reunite with her younger brother. When
Cassie
Louise Lightfoot encounters Harriet Tubman and a mysterious train in the
sky,
"what follows is a compelling journey in which the author masterfully
integrates
fantasy and historical fact" (School
Library Journal).
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1993, Picture Books category.
Rosenberg,
Pam.
Jane Addams: Social Reformer and Nobel Prize Winner. By Pam
Rosenberg;
content
adviser, Peggy Glowacki.
Chanhassen,
MN: Child's World, 2004.
Spirit of
America series.
Biography of
Jane Addams (1860-1935). A social and political activist, she was a founder of
the Hull House settlement in Chicago. She was a pacifist, author, lecturer and
public intellectual, an advocate of women's voting rights, and the first
American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1931). Addams was a founder
of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Ryan, Pam
Muñoz.
Esperanza Rising.
New York:
Scholastic Press, 2000.
Esperanza
and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege
in Mexico to
go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must
adapt to the
harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the
Great
Depression.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 2001 - Books for Older Children.
Scholes,
Katherine.
Peace Begins With You. By Katherine Scholes; illustrated
by Robert Ingpen.
San
Francisco: Sierra Club Books; Boston: Little, Brown, 1990.
Explains, in
simple terms, the concept of peace, why conflicts occur, how they
can be
resolved in positive ways, and how to protect peace.
Schomp,
Virginia.
The Vietnam Era.
New York:
Benchmark Books, 2005.
Describes,
through excerpts from diaries, speeches, newspaper articles, and
other
documents of the time, the Vietnam War and related events that occurred in
the United
States during the 1960's, including the women's movement, the
struggle for
civil rights, and the generation gap. Includes review questions.
Schraff,
Anne E.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett: "Strike a Blow Against a Glaring
Evil".
Berkeley
Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2008.
Discusses
the life of African-American civil rights activist Ida B. Wells-Barnetts
(1862-1931), her work as a teacher, writer, activist, and her strong stand
against lynching in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Schraff,
Anne E.
Women of Peace: Nobel Peace Prize Winners.
Hillside, NJ:
Enslow Publishers, 1994.
Sedgwick,
Marcus.
Cowards: The True Story of the Men Who Refused To Fight.
London:
Hodder Children's Books, 2003.
Seiling,
Rebecca.
Plant a Seed of Peace.. By Rebecca Seiling;
illustrated by Brooke Rothshank.
Scottdale, PA:
Herald Press, 2007.
Forty-three
illustrated stories of peacemakers from today and the
past.
Seuss, Dr.
The Butter Battle Book.
New York:
Random House, 1984.
Dr. Seuss
chronicles the feud between the Yooks and the Zooks from slingshots through
sophisticated weaponry, until each side has the capacity to destroy the world.
The language amuses, the drawings are zesty and humorous...(School Library Journal review).
Severance,
John B.
Gandhi, Great Soul.
New York:
Clarion Books, 1997.
A biography
of Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), Indian leader of nonviolent civil disobedience,
who helped the people of India free themselves from British rule.
Sherrow,
Victoria.
The Righteous Gentiles.
San Diego, CA:
Lucent Books, 1998.
Presents an
overview of non-Jews throughout Europe who tried to save Jews from
persecution
and extermination by the Nazis during World War II.
Siegel,
Beatrice.
Lillian Wald of Henry Street.
New York:
Macmillan, 1983.
A biography
of an urban pioneer who evolved new concepts of public health, led the movement
for peace, and pressed government to assume responsibility for the economic
well-being of its citizens.
Silverstone,
Michael.
Rigoberta Menchú: Defending Human Rights in Guatemala.
New York:
Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1999.
Smith,
Samantha.
Journey to the Soviet Union.
Boston:
Little, Brown, 1985.
A
ten-year-old from Maine describes her trip to Russia at the invitation of Yuri
Andropov
after writing him a letter expressing her fears about a nuclear war.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1986 (Honor Book).
Smithells,
Phillip.
World Without War: A Book for Children.
London: J.M.
Dent, 1934.
Spaull, Hebe.
The Fight for Peace: Stories of the Work of the League of
Nations.
London: G.
Bell, 1930.
Spaull, Hebe.
Peeps at the League of Nations.
London: A.
& C. Black, 1928.
Stanley,
Melanie Zucker.
Jane Addams.
Glen Allen,
VA: Foxhound Pub., 2000.
Biography of
Jane Addams (1860-1935). A social and political activist, she was a founder of
the Hull House settlement in Chicago. She was a pacifist, author, lecturer and
public intellectual, an advocate of women's voting rights, and the first
American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1931). Addams was a founder
of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Steele,
William O.
The Perilous Road. William O. Steele; illustrated by Paul
Galdone.
New York:
Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc., 1958.
The story of a young man growing up
during the Civil War as he learns the senseless waste of war and the true
meaning of courage and tolerance.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1958.
Stern, Philip
Van Doren.
Henry David Thoreau: Writer and Rebel.
New York:
Crowell, 1972.
A biography
of the poet, naturalist, and observer of mankind whose philosophy of passive
resistance inspired such leaders as Gandhi and King.
Taylor,
Mildred D.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. By Mildred
D. Taylor; frontispiece by Jerry Pinkney.
New York:
Dial Press, 1976.
A black
family living in the South during the 1930's are faced with prejudice and
discrimination which their children don't understand.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1976
Taylor,
Theodore.
The Cay.
Garden City,
NY: Doubleday, 1969.
When the
freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German
submarine
during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on
the head,
and an old Negro are stranded on a small desert island in the
Caribbean
where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from
his old
companion.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1970.
Temple, Frances.
Taste of Salt: a Story of Modern Haiti.
New York:
HarperTrophy, 2005, 1992.
Three
fictional characters, one a former member of Jean-Bertrand Aristide's
election
team, tell their own stories of violence, poverty, oppression, and hope
for change in
contemporary Haiti.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1993 - Books for Older Children.
Terkel,
Susan Neiburg.
People Power: A Look at Nonviolent Action and Defense.
New York:
Lodestar Books, 1996.
Covers the
definition, principles, and methods of nonviolence, including civil
disobedience.
Terrell,
Ruth Harris.
A Kid's Guide to How To Stop the Violence. By Ruth
Harris Terrell; illustrated by
John Paul
Genzo.
New York:
Avon Books, 1992.
Discusses
violence in society and in the home, its various causes, and possible
ways to
prevent it.
Terzian,
James P.
Mighty Hard Road: the Story of Cesar Chavez. By James
P. Terzian and Kathryn
Cramer.
New York:
Simon and Schuster, 1972, 1970.
Biography of
the Mexican American labor leader, farm worker, and civil rights activist.
Thomas,
Shelley Moore.
Somewhere Today: a Book of Peace. By Shelley
Moore Thomas; photographs by
Eric Futran.
Morton
Grove, IL: A. Whitman, 1998.
Gives
examples of ways in which people bring about peace by doing things to help
and care for
one another and their world.
Thomas,
William.
Aung San Suu Kyi.
Milwaukee:
World Almanac Library, 2005.
Profiles a
courageous and inspiring woman who stood up to the military
dictatorship
of Myanmar, once called Burma and continues to fight for democracy
and human
rights in Myanmar.
Through Indian Eyes: the Native Experience in Books for
Children.
Edited by
Beverly
Slapin and Doris Seale.
Philadelphia,
PA: New Society Publishers, 1992.
The Native
American (NA) experience as presented in children's books is reviewed through
essays, poetry, book reviews, guidelines for evaluating books, a resource list
of organizations, a bibliography of books by and about NAs, American Indian
authors for young readers, and illustrations. The essays may help or hinder
Native American concerns. There is hostility: "You know us (NAs) only as
enemies." No location is given for the cited Iroquois document which
states: "Even the form of our government seems to owe a greater debt to the
Constitution of the Six Nations of the Iroquois than to any European
document." One positive suggestion is offered: "Visit with living
American Indian people, try to find out more about their ways of life and their
languages." The book reviews are similar to the essays, and the
illustrations are traditional. The poetry, guidelines, resource list,
bibliography, and list of authors are sensitive and informative, which makes
this a recommended selection for academic libraries. (Library Journal review).
Trocmé,
André.
Angels and Donkeys: Tales for Christmas and Other Times.
Translated
by Nelly Trocmé Hewett.
Intercourse,
PA: Good Books, 1998.
A collection
of tales, many based on stories from the Bible, told by Pastor André Trocmé,
a French Protestant
pacifist minister, around the huge Christmas tree in the church in Le Chambon
sur Lignon, France.
Tsuchiya ,
Yukio.
Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals, People, and War. By Yukio
Tsuchiya;
illustrated
by Ted Lewin; translated by Tomoko Tsuchiya Dykes.
Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1988.
Recounts how
three elephants in a Tokyo zoo were put to death because of war,
focusing on
the pain shared by the elephants and the keepers who must starve
them.
Umino, Shiho.
Paper Crane Journey: Carrying Sadako's Prayer. By Umino
Shiho;
illustrated
by Karino Fukiko; translated by Keiko Miyamoto and Steve Leeper.
[Japan:
PHP?], 2003.
Sadako
Sasaki (1943-1955) is remembered for her efforts to fold a thousand origami
paper cranes before her death from leukemia, which resulted from the atomic
bombing of Hiroshima, Japan in 1945.
Underwood,
Betty.
The Tamarack Tree. By Betty Underwood; illustrated by
Bea Holmes.
Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1971.
Community
reaction toward a local school for black girls in 1833 makes a
fourteen-year-old
white orphan re-examine her feelings toward higher education,
abolition,
blacks, and the meaning of womanhood.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1972.
Vander Hook,
Sue.
Mahatma Gandhi: Proponent of Peace.
Edina, MN:
ABDO Pub. Co., 2011.
Vigna,
Judith.
Nobody Wants a Nuclear War: Story and Pictures.
Niles, IL:
A. Whitman, 1986.
When a
mother discovers her small daughter and son have built a shelter to
protect
themselves from nuclear attack, she explains that grownups all over the
world are
working hard to make the world safe for children to grow up in.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1987.
Vinke,
Hermann.
The Short Life of Sophie Scholl. By Hermann
Vinke; with an interview with Ilse Aichinger; translated from the German by
Hedwig Pachter.
Cambridge MA:
Harper & Row, 1984.
The
biography of the twenty-one year-old German student who was put to death for
her anti-Nazi activities with the underground group called the White Rose. For
older readers.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award 1985.
Walker,
Alice.
Why War Is Never a Good Idea. By Alice
Walker; illustrations by Stefano Vitale.
New York,
NY: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2007.
Simple,
rhythmic text explores the wanton destructiveness of war, which has
grown old
but not wise, as it demolishes nice people and beautiful things with
no
consideration for the consequences.
Wallace,
Archer.
Heroes of Peace.
New York:
Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929.
Weatherford,
Carole Boston.
Birmingham, 1963.
Honesdale, PA:
Wordsong, 2007.
Told through
the voice of a fictional eyewitness in a free-verse poem, the tragic events of
the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Alabama in 1963 by the Ku
Klux Klan and its effects on the civil rights movement is presented to middle
readers through poetic verse and archival photographs. Four young girls were
killed: Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Denise McNair, and Carole Robertson.
There is an "in memoriam section", with their photos, at the end of
the book.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 2008 (Honor Book).
Weatherford,
Carole Boston.
Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins. By Carole
Boston Weatherford;
paintings by
Jerome Lagarrigue.
New York:
Dial Books for Young Readers, 2005.
The 1960
civil rights sit-ins at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro,
North
Carolina, are seen through the eyes of a young Southern black girl.
Counter When
four courageous black teens sat down at a lunch counter in the
segregated
South of 1960, the reverberations were felt both far beyond and close
to home.
This insightful story offers a child's-eye view of this seminal event
in the
American civil rights movement. Connie is used to the signs and customs
that have
let her drink only from certain water fountains and which bar her from
local pools
and some stores, but still . . . she'd love to sit at the lunch
counter,
just like she's seen other girls do. Showing how an ordinary family
becomes
involved in the great and personal cause of their times, it's a tale
inviting
everyone to celebrate our country's everyday heroes, of all ages.
Webster-Doyle,
Terrence.
Books by
Terrence Webster-Doyle (many illustrated by Rod Cameron). Inspirational stories
for martial arts students presenting tests of wisdom involving attributes
including honor, strength, humility, peaceful conflict resolution, and love.
Eye of the Hurricane: Tales of the Empty-Handed Masters.
Middlebury, VT:
Atrium Society Publications, 1992.
Facing the Double-Edged Sword: The Art of Karate for Young
People.
Ojai, CA:
Atrium, 1988.
Fighting the Invisible Enemy: Understanding the Effects of
Conditioning on
Young People.
Ojai, CA:
Atrium Publications, 1990.
Flight of the Golden Eagle: Tales of the Empty-Handed
Masters.
Middlebury, VT:
Atrium Society Publications, 1992.
My First Martial Arts Book: Putting My Shoes by the Door,
Just So.
Trumbull,
CT: Weatherhill, 2001.
Operation Warhawks: How Young People Become Warriors.
Middlebury,
VT: Atrium Publications, 1992 (1993 printing).
Respect: the Martial Arts Code of Conduct.
Trumbull,
CT: Weatherhill, 2002.
Tug of War: Peace Through Understanding Conflict.
Ojai, CA:
Atrium Publications, 1990.
Why Is Everybody Always Picking On Me?: A Guide to
Understanding Bullies, for
Young People.
Boston:
Weatherhill, 1991.
Why Is Everybody Always Picking On Us?: Understanding the
Roots of Prejudice.
Trumbull,
CT: Weatherhill, 2000.
Wheeler,
Leslie.
Jane Addams.
Englewood
Cliffs, NJ: Silver Burdett Press, 1990.
Biography of
Jane Addams (1860-1935). A social and political activist, she was a founder of
the Hull House settlement in Chicago. She was a pacifist, author, lecturer and
public intellectual, an advocate of women's voting rights, and the first
American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1931). Addams was a founder
of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Yep,
Laurence.
Child of the Owl.
New York:
Harper & Row, 1977.
A
twelve-year-old girl who knows little about her Chinese heritage is sent to
live with her grandmother in San Francisco's Chinatown.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1978.
White,
Florence Meiman.
Cesar Chavez: Man of Courage. By Florence
M. White;
illustrated
by Victor Mays.
Champaign,
IL: Garrard Pub. Co., 1973.
An
easy-to-read biography of the Mexican American labor leader who organized the
agricultural laborers' struggles for better pay and working conditions.
White,
Florence Meiman.
First Woman in Congress, Jeannette Rankin.
New York: J.
Messner, 1980.
Includes
index.
A biography
of the first woman elected to Congress, who spent the 92 years of her life as a
leader for female suffrage; Rankin was a pacifist, a lobbyist, and a social
reformer.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1981.
Whitman,
Edmund S.
Little Pax: The Story of a Boy Who Tried to Change the Name
of the World. By
Edmund S.
Whitman; illustrated by Gladys Ely.
Wheaton, IL:
Theosophical Pub. House, 1972.
A boy trying
to promote peace is encouraged by the President of the United
States and
the Secretary General of the United Nations.
Williams,
Sam.
Talk Peace. By Sam Williams; illustrated by
Mique Moriuchi.
New York:
Holiday House, 2005.
Illustrations
and easy-to-read text call for all people of the world, wherever
they are and
whatever they are doing, to talk peace.
Wilson,
Janet.
One Peace: True Stories of Young Activists.
Custer, WA.:
Orca Book Publishers, 2008.
The stories
of young people who have been refugees from war, injured by land
mines, or
learned about the consequences of violence through other means are
interspersed
with children's poems, quotes, artwork, and photographs. The brief,
powerful
accounts document how these children ages 8 to 15 worked for or became
symbols of
peace. Most of them work with or have founded peace organizations to
help spread
their message. Wilson includes several of her own symbolic portraits
of young
peacemakers. This book won't give children an understanding of why wars
are fought, but
it's an impressive effort to cover a subject that doesn't get
much
attention, and it makes a good starting point for inspiring students to try
projects of
their own. For Grades 4-8.-- (School Library
Journal review)
Winter,
Jeanette.
The Librarian of Basra: a True Story from Iraq.
Orlando, FL:
Harcourt, Inc., 2005.
Alia
Muhammad Baker is a librarian in Basra, Iraq. For fourteen years, her
library has
been a meeting place for those who love books. Until now: war
has come,
and Alia fears that the library--along with the thirty thousand books
within
it--will be destroyed forever. In a war-stricken country where civilians-
-especially
women--have little power, this true story about a librarian's
struggle to
save her community's priceless collection of books reminds us all
how,
throughout the world, the love of literature and the respect for knowledge
know no
boundaries.
Winter,
Jeanette.
Nasreen's Secret School: a True Story from Afghanistan.
New York:
Beach Lane Books, 2009.
Nasreen's
parents are gone, her father taken one night by soldiers, her mother lost on
her
search to
find him. Now living with only her grandmother, Nasreen stays is silent with
trauma. Whispers about a forbidden school reach her grandmother who, with
stealth, bravery and hope, brings Nasreen to the secret school hidden in the
home of an equally-brave woman, a teacher of girls. Framed stylized paintings
in hues that symbolically reflect the path of Nasreen's healing extend the
story told in the plain, heartfelt voice of her grandmother. The power of
education and resistance stand out in this all-too-true contemporary tale of
the human toll exacted by war and the oppression of women.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 2010, Books for Younger Children
category.
Woelfle,
Gretchen.
Jeannette Rankin: a Political Pioneer.
Honesdale,
PA: Calkins Creek, 2007.
A biography
of the first woman elected to Congress, who spent the 92 years of her life as a
leader for female suffrage; Rankin was a pacifist, a lobbyist, and a social
reformer. By any measure, Jeannette Rankin was a woman ahead of her time. She
was Montana's representative in Congress before women in other states even had
the right to vote. … A time line, a bibliography, and source notes bolster this
robust introduction to a fascinating figure. (From Booklist review).
Wolff,
Virginia Euwer.
Bat 6.
New York:
Scholastic Press, 1998.
In small
town, post-World War Oregon, twenty-one sixth-grade girls recount the
story of an
annual softball game, during which one girl's bigotry comes to the
surface. Set
in a small Oregon town just after World War II, this is the
powerful
tale of a community shattered by its reaction to two young newcomers,
Aki and
Shazam. Told from 21 different points of view, "Bat 6" explores the
subject of
Japanese-American racial prejudice after the war. A Japanese
American
girl who has just spent 6 years in an internment camp meets a bitter
girl whose
father was killed in Pearl Harbor, and the two become rivals in
baseball in
this story narrated by the members of the opposing teams.
Wondriska,
William.
All the Animals Were Angry.
New York:
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970.
With nothing
else to do on a hot day in the jungle, the animals make the mistake
of pointing
out each other's faults.
Woodson,
Jacqueline.
I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This.
New York,
NY: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers, 1994.
Marie, the
only black girl in the eighth grade willing to befriend her white
classmate
Lena, discovers that Lena's father is doing horrible things to her in
private.
"A
Coretta Scott King Honor Book"
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 1994.
Wright,
Henry Clarke.
A Kiss for a Blow: a Collection of Stories for Children Inculcation
the
Principles of Peace.
Boston: Lee,
1888.
Youme.
Selavi, that is Life: a Haitian Story of Hope.
El Paso, TX:
Cinco Puntos Press, 2004.
A homeless
boy on the streets of Haiti joins other street children, and together
they build a
home and a radio station where they can care for themselves and for
other
homeless children. Includes sections
with factual information about
Haiti.
Jane Addams
Peace Association Children's Book Award, 2005, Books for Younger Children.
Zalben, Jane
Breskin.
Paths to Peace: People Who Changed the World.
New York:
Dutton Children's Books, 2006.
This
volume highlights 16 individuals who have worked to improve conditions for
others through their words and actions. Included are writers, philosophers,
civil rights advocates, and politicians, many of whom are Nobel Peace Prize
recipients. The book focuses on celebrated individuals such as John Fitzgerald
Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, Cesar Chavez, and Elie
Wiesel. Also covered are those newer to recognition, such as Wangari Maathai,
who works for conservation in Kenya, and Aung San Suu Kyi, who fights for
democracy in Myanmar… Grades 4-8. (From School
Library Journal review)
