Annotated Peace Resource List

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The Lion & Lamb Project's mission is to stop the marketing of violence to children.

Using full color photographs, this book showcases the diversity of human skin color, and gives a simple, accurate explanation. Text in Spanish and English.

Reveals in verse that regardless of outward differences, children everywhere have basic commonalities. Great for read-alouds.

Ellie reviews her day and events that prompted her to feel grumpy, excited, worried, sorry, etc, giving children language to use in talking about heir feelings.

Index to the master catalog, links to view items for all ages.

When something disappears out of your lunch box or your locker or your desk every day, you’d like to say, "No big deal." But even minor theft is a big deal to kids. This book shows children several different ways of ending an annoying problem. It emphasizes brainstorming solutions and evaluating each option before taking action. (Parenting Press' "Kids Can Choose" series)

What to do when an "ugly bunch of angry words" goes from one person to another? (A colorful update of the "Quarreling Book" story.)

Arthur’s mom won’t let him stay up to watch television. Captured here are all the stages of a tantrum with watercolor illustrations. His anger blows the universe into little pieces. Eventually, he winds down, and the storm subsides. Can be a good discussion starter, but the pictured chaos may not helpful for some.

A child treats a disagreeable classmate with kindness and is glad--even though she feels her effort is in vain.

A child meets many different kinds of people, all of whom could become friends.

Narrator tells how his family was sent to an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II and how baseball was used as a diversion from the horrible situation in which the camp's inhabitants lived.

Eddie Lee has Down’s syndrome. Christy considers him a pest, though her mom has told her to be good to Eddie. When he follows her and JimBud into the woods, he shares several special discoveries with her. The reader is included in the social dilemmas and the discoveries.

Ill. By Floyd Cooper

Anna saw it, big and furry. Her brother thought it must be ugly and her sister said ferocious. Dad said it must be destroyed. What will Anna do?

In 1942, 13-year old Korinna is active in her local Nazi youthgroup. She believes Hitler is helping deal with "the Jewish problem." Then she discovers that her own parents are hiding Jews.

Benjamin's playful experiment to find how many things he can do with an empty paper bag leads him to an encounter with a bag lady who has no home of her own.

The wisdom of peace and the absurdity of fighting are demonstrated in 17 stories and poems by outstanding authors of today.

During the Revolutionary War, two young sisters help a group of Boston women get coffee from a greedy merchant.

Photos from around the world showing how people in different cultures include bread into their lives. Also see the following titles by this author: Houses and Home; Loving; Shoes, Shoes, Shoes.