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There have been a lot of posts and other recommendations for books, so many of them have been sorted into categories on various pages listed below. New posts also appear here.
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ABOUT TEACHING/RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
VALUES FOR CHILDREN & INTERGENERATIONAL WORSHIP
Category: Other
Specific catagories: Relationships, Parenting, Teaching, children, adolescents, creativity, jung psychology, neurology, personality, workplace, meyers-briggs
Author/editor: Elizabeth Wagele
Publisher: Ulysses Press
ISBN: 1-56975-546-9
| Brief Description: | Guide to the inner world of the introvert by a UU who is a self-proclaimed introvert. |
Story-based activities for summer program list several good books for use with children.
Submitted by Susan Caldwel -scaldwel_373 in the Activities: Art section (click link on name above)
Storytelling World Magazine (click on the title for full details)
The Universe is a Green Dragon
by Brian Swimm
A cosmic creation story. Wonderful creation spirituality book in the form of a dialogue. Wonderful concepts.
Category: Holiday
Specific catagories: Easter, lily
Story Title: The Beauty of the Lily
Author/editor: Alice Anderson Bays
Publisher: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press 1938
ISBN:
| Publisher's address: | Nashville |
| Brief Description: | This story is originally told by Frances Jenkins Olcott in The Wonder Garden, Houghton Mifflin, nd. Ivan has become careless in his home and personal life. His nephew Vassily lives with him,lives with him. On Easter morning a young man presents Ivan with a beautiful white lily, but Ivan cannot find a place for it in his dirty house. As he begins to make room for the lily in his life, a transformation occurs. The next year on Easter the young man appears again, exclaiming "How beautiful is thy lily!" When Ivan tells him that the lily has vanished, the young man says to him, "But its beauty live in thy heart." |
Category: Values
Specific catagories: segregation, forgiveness, nonviolence, compassion
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Author/editor: Robert Coles
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN:
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| Brief Description: | In this true story, a 6-year-old African-American school girl braves the taunts of New Orleans segregationists with compassion. She teaches us all a lesson in nonviolence and grace. |
Category: Diversity/Racism
Specific catagories: tolerance, diversity, homophopia
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Author/editor: Todd Tuttle
Publisher: Window Books
ISBN:
| Publisher's address: | 1011 Boren Avenue #199 Seattle, WA 98104 |
| Brief Description: | Spot chronicles the life of a spotted dog who grows up in a town where dogs without spots are reviled. One day, Spot begins to lose his own beautiful spots and he has to face the prospect of his family and friends disownng him because he in now a spotles do. Spot eventually accepts hiimself, regardless of what anyone else thinks of him. |
Category: Child Development
Specific catagories: K-12
Story Title: CHILDREN WILL BECOME ORGANIZED, ACCOUNTABLE AND RESPONSIBLE!
Author/editor: David Semenas
Publisher: David Semenas
ISBN:
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| Brief Description: | We are professional educators who have developed a program to help children succeed in school. Our program will help students be organized, accountable and responsible on a consistent basis! By using the suggested strategies, children will improve their grades and their behavior! You may choose to never buy another spiral, binder or student planner again! This is a useful K-12 resource to offer children throughout all of their educational careers. All of the goal-setting, organizational, grade and note-taking charts may be printed from the computer forever! You have the option of receiving the program the same day so a child will reap the benefits immediately. We look forward to your visiting our web site at: http://www.childrenfirstonline.com/ Sincerely, Donna and David Semenas (BA/ MA/ ADJUNCT PROFESSORS) |
Category: World Religions
Specific catagories: prayer, death
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Author/editor: Douglas Wood; Il. PJ Lynch
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0-7636-0660-X
| Publisher's address: | 2067 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02140 |
| Brief Description: | The story is written from the viewpoint of a grandson, who spends time with his grandfather. He says he could ask his grandfather anything and one day he asks about prayers. His grandfather answers by giving many different examples of prayer. He says that trees pray when they reach for the sky, that rocks pray when they are silent, that streams pray and grass and wind and birds. Then he talks about the many different ways that people pray when they sing or paint or watch a sunset. Then the grandfather dies and the boy prays for him to come back but he doesn't. One day when he's out in the woods he finally hears the earth praying just like his Grandfather had said. And he feels closer to his Grandfather. |
Category: Values
Specific catagories: Faith development
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Author/editor: James W. Fowler
Publisher: Abingdon Press
ISBN: 0687017300
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| Brief Description: | The roles of shame, guilt, and conscience in faith development are explored in this book. |
Category: Values
Specific catagories: Faith development
Story Title:
Author/editor: James W. Fowler
Publisher: Harper
ISBN: 0060628669
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| Brief Description: | Study of how faith develops over the course of one's life. |
Category: Environment
Specific catagories: Earth Day, Worship Service
Story Title: An Apple To Keep
Author/editor: Noal Lawhon
Publisher: Carolina Farmer
ISBN:
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| Brief Description: | An Apple To Keep Cut an apple into quarters. Put aside three of the quarters. What do these represent? The oceans of our world. The fraction left is one-fourth. Slice it in half. Set aside one of the halves. This is the part people can't live or work on - the poles, deserts, swamps, high mountains. What's left? One-eighth. This is where humans live, but not necessarily where they grow their food. Slice your one-eighth piece into four sections. Put aside three of them and you have 1/32 left. The three pieces you set aside represent the places where the soil is too poor to farm - where it's too rocky, wet, cold or steep to produce food. They also represent the cities, houses, highways, shopping malls, schools, parks, factories, parking lots and miniature golf courses where people live, play and work - but do not grow any food. Take the 1/32 piece that's left and carefully peel it. This scrap of apple peel represents the topsoil of the planet, the thin skin of the Earth's crust upon which humankind totally depends. It is less than five feet deep and is a fixed amount of food-producing land. You may now eat the rest of the apple, but carefully save this tiny piece of apple skin. Treat it as if your life depends on it because, in the real world, it does. This article was published in the February 2000 issue of CAROLINA FARMER which received it from Noal Lawhon, president of Delta King Seed Co., McCrory, Ark., who passed it on from a contact at Monsanto. [Note: The accompanying visual was a diagram of a sliced apple of varying sized slices represented in descending size the following labels: 1. Oceans; 2. Poles, deserts, swamps, high mountains; 3. Poor soil, cities, etc.; and finally, 4. topsoil capabable of producing food and fiber.] |
Category: Other
Specific catagories: Girls Coming of Age Story
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Author/editor: Barbara Helen Berger
Publisher: Philomel Books
ISBN: 039921738X
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| Brief Description: | This is a beautiful (and beautifully illustrated) story about a couple who get a child from the Mother of the Owls. When she begins to grow wings,Gwinna must come to terms with who she really is. She strives to learn to master her harp and play the song of the wind. On her 12th birthday she must go to fulfill the destiny that her magic and her wings hold in store for her. Submitted by Terry Stafford |
Category: Holiday
Specific catagories: Creation stories, Spring Equinox
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Author/editor: Donna Henes
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
ISBN: 0399522107
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| Brief Description: | Celestially Auspicious Occasions presents a cross-cultural exploration of the rites and rituals inspired by heavenly events, from Valentine's Day to the blue moon to connection between ancient Egyptian beliefs and Easter eggs. |
Category: Holiday
Specific catagories: Easter, Creation stories, egg stories
Story Title:
Author/editor: Edna Barth
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 0395305500
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| Brief Description: | Traces the history of Easter symbols from their Christian and Pagan origins to such present-day additions as rabbits and new clothes. This book is very Pagan-friendly |
Category: Holiday
Specific catagories: Easter
Story Title:
Author/editor: Caryll Houselander
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN:
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| Brief Description: | Illustrated by Tomie dePaola |
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