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The International Board on Books for Young People - Palestinian Section (PBBY) is pleased to launch its website
The aim of our PBBY website is to connect effectively with our members, friends and friends to be.
We believe that the dissemination of information about our activities, outcomes, (...)
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Most recent articles
’Tasting the Sky’: An Interview
Monday 10 February 2014
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The Nation
’Tasting the Sky’: An Interview With Ibtisam Barakat
By Molly Bennet
June 4, 2007
EDITOR’S NOTE: Ibtisam Barakat, who lives in Columbia, Missouri, is the author of the memoir Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood, recently published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Barakat first (...)
WHO WILL WAKE JUSTICE UP?
Monday 10 February 2014
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Beverley Naidoo
WHO WILL WAKE JUSTICE UP?
Beverley Naidoo (published by TES 9.11.2001 entitled ’Real suffering speaks truth about injustice’)
Imagine a narrow school hall filled with teenage schoolgirls in the week after September 11th. They have read the opening of my novel The Other Side of (...)
A Little Piece of Ground
Monday 10 February 2014
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Elizabeth Laird With Sonia Nimr
What Liz Laird said about writing the book:
http://www.elizabethlaird.co.uk/#!a-little-piece-of-ground/cyw1
Outside the home of the Aboudi in the Palestinian city of Ramallah, an Israeli tank blocks the street. Armed troops have kept the inhabitants inside (...)
Palestinians in Fiction for Young People
Monday 10 February 2014
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Elsa. Marston
Wasafiri Issue 60, December 2009
Elsa Marston
No matter how subtly, or how well wrapped in drama, fantasy or humour, literary fiction for young people conveys values — and surely we would not want it any other way. Of quite a different order, however, is the reflection of a (...)
The Shepherd’s Granddaughter
Monday 10 February 2014
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Anne Carter
Award Letter
February 2, 2009
Dear Staff of Groundwood Books,
On behalf of the International Reading Association’s Notable Books for a Global Society, it is my distinct pleasure to inform you that our committee has selected one of the extraordinary titles from your publishing house (...)
ICBD 2014
Monday 10 February 2014
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Letter to the children of the world
International Children Book Day 2014 Ireland
Readers often ask writers how it is that they write their stories – where do the ideas come from? From my imagination, the writer answers. Ah, yes, readers might say. But where is your imagination, and what is (...)
Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award
Monday 10 February 2014
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Tamer Institute for Community Education
"For its exceptional reading promotion work, the Tamer Institute for Community Education has been awarded the 2009 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award."
Read the full citation (PDF).
Children Under Occupation
Monday 10 February 2014
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This article was published in "Corner Stone" (Issue 41 - Summer 2006)
Finding Palestine in Children’s Books
Monday 10 February 2014
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Elsa Marston
The Arab world in children’s books
Finding Palestine
Abstract
In this article based on a talk given at an international conference on children’s literature sponsored by the Lebanese Association of Women Researchers, Marston writes about the depiction of Arabs and Palestinians, in (...)
Telling the Truth for Palestinian Children
Monday 10 February 2014
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A presentation by the Canadian writer Anne Carter
at IBBY 30th Congress in Macau
Speech http://www.ibby.org/index.php?id=638
And PowerPoint presentation
This was presented at IBBY 30 Congress in Macau- China in 2006
Telling the Truth for Palestinian Children Anne Laurel Carter/Canada
The (...)
Medchild Award- Posted IBBY WP
Monday 10 February 2014
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Tamer Institute for Community Education was awarded the First Medchild Award for Best Practice for the category of Education and Culture. The award is of the value €25.000.
It is the first time that this award is launched and it is an award for the promotion of children rights and their (...)
Observer: Book Aid Appeal on books in Palestine & Africa
Monday 10 February 2014
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‘We’re trapped ... books free our minds’
Book Aid highlights Tamer Institute
(The Observer Book Aid Appeal December 2005)
In the third week of our appeal, Conal Urquhart reports on the Palestinian institute making sure children don’t grow up illiterate
The Observer. Sunday, 11 December 2005 (...)
Moughrabi Children’s Literature
Monday 10 February 2014
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Three representations of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in children’s literature
(Part 1)
Fouad Moughrabi The Electronic Intifada 5 February 2007
Lynne Reid Banks, Broken Bridge (Avon Books, 1994)
Deborah Ellis, Three Wishes: Palestinians and Israeli Children Speak (Groundwood Books, (...)
Gender Stereotyping in Children’s Books
Monday 10 February 2014
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By Susan Perry | 07/25/13
Gender stereotyping of parental roles is common even in 21st century children’s literature.
Although 67 percent of American moms now have jobs outside the home and American dads are far more involved in their children’s lives than they were even a generation ago, you — (...)
Interview J helou talks with liz laird
Monday 10 February 2014
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Jehan Helou talks with author Elizabeth Laird
In Carousel magazine 2003
en_interv with liz laird.pdf
Storycrafting Empowers: Listening Unites
Monday 10 February 2014
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CHILDREN’S VOICES IN THE TURMOIL OF WAR -
By Monika Riihelä
Translated in English by Niina Rutanen
Children are Telling Finland
Psychologists for Social Responsibility, Kassem Aina & Faizah Masri, and Beit Atfal Al Smood (...)
