Childrens' Literature Bibliography

Personal History

  • Mom Can't See Me

Authors: Sally Hobart Alexander , George Ancona
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1st ed edition (October 1, 1990)

  • The Memory Box

Authors: Mary Bahr , David Cunningham
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company; (September 1, 1995)

  • The Wooden Doll

Author: Susan Bonners
Publisher: Harpercollins; ( April 1, 1991 )

  • Once upon a Time (Meet the Author (R.C. Owen))

Authors: Eve Bunting , John Pezaris
Publisher: R.C. Owen; (May 1, 1995)

  • Dia's Story Cloth

Authors: Dia Cha , Chiie Thao Cha , Nhia Thao Cha
Publisher: Lee & Low Books; Reprint edition (January 8, 1998)

  • The Remembering Box

Author: Eth Clifford
Publisher: HarperTrophy; Reprint edition (October 21, 1992)

  • Grand Mothers: Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories About the Keepers of Our Traditions

Author: Nikki Giovanni
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company; 1st ed edition (May 1, 1994)

  • Africa Dream

Authors: Eloise Greenfield , Carole Byard
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; Reprint edition (January 1, 1992)

  • Mrs. Moskowitz and the Sabbath Candlesticks

Author: Amy Schwartz
Publisher: Sagebrush Education Resources; (December 1983)

  • When I Was Nine

Author: James Stevenson
Publisher: Harpercollins Juvenile Books; 1st ed edition (April 1, 1986)


Family History

  • Great-Grandma Tells of Threshing Days

Authors: Verda Cross , Gail Owens
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Co; (September 1, 1992)

  • Childtimes: A Three-Generation Memoir

Authors: Eloise Greenfield , Lessie Jones Little , Jerry Pinkney
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; Reprint edition (January 1, 1993)

  • When I Was Little

Authors: Toyomi Igus , Higgins Bond
Publisher: Just Us Books; 1st ed edition (November 1, 1992)

  • The Night Journey

Author: Kathryn Lasky
Publisher: Puffin Books; Reprint edition (April 1, 1986)

  • The Hanukkah of Great-Uncle Otto

Authors: Myron Levoy , Donna Russ
Publisher: Jewish Pubn Society; (October 1, 1984)

  • Three Names

Author: Patricia MacLachlan
Publisher: HarperTrophy; Reissue edition (May 30, 1994)

  • Jenny and the Grand Old Great-Aunts

Authors: Colby F. Rodowsky , Barbara J. Roman , Colby Rowodsky
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1st ed edition (May 1, 1992)

  • Don't You Know There's a War On?

Author: James Stevenson
Publisher: Greenwillow; 1st ed edition (October 23, 1992)

  • Go Fish (Trophy Chapter Books (Paperback))

Authors: Mary Stolz , Pat Cummings
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; Reprint edition (January 1, 1993)

  • Melting Pots: Family Stories and Recipes (Family Ties)

Author: Judith Eichler Weber
Publisher: Silver Moon Press; 1 Silver edition (June 1, 1994)


Voluntary Migration

  • An Ancient Heritage: The Arab-American Minority

Author: Brent Ashabranner
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; (April 1991)

  • Leaving for America

Authors: Roslyn Bresnick-Perry , Mira Reisberg
Publisher: Children's Book Press (CA); (September 1, 1992)

  • Hello, Amigos!

Authors: Tricia Brown , Fran Ortiz
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co; 1st ed edition (March 1, 1987)

  • Make a Wish, Molly

Author: Barbara Cohen
Publisher: Yearling; (March 1, 1995)

  • How My Family Lives in America (Aladdin Picture Books)

Author: Susan Kuklin
Publisher: Aladdin; (September 1, 1998)

  • If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island

Authors: Ellen Levine , Wayne Parmenter
Publisher: Scholastic; Reissue edition (August 1, 1994)

  • Dan Thuy's New Life in America

Author: Karen O'Connor
Publisher: Lerner Pub Group; (May 1, 1992)

  • Tracing Our Jewish Roots (American Origins)

Author: Miriam Sagan
Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing; 1st ed edition (December 1, 1993)

  • I Speak English for My Mom

Authors: Muriel Stanek , Judith Friedman
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company; (February 1, 1989)

  • Lion Dancer: Ernie Wan's Chinese New Year

Authors: Kate Waters , Madeline Slovenz-Low
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks; Reprint edition (December 1, 1990)


Forced Migration

  • Door of No Return: The Legend of Goree Island

Author: Steven Barboza
Publisher: Penguin USA ; 1st ed edition (September 1, 1994)

  • Only the Names Remain : The Cherokees and The Trail of Tears

Author: Alex W. Bealer
Publisher: Little, Brown; Reprint edition (April 1, 1996)

  • The Underground Railroad

Author: Raymond Bial
Publisher: Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media; (September 1999)

  • China 's Long March: 6000 Miles of Danger

Authors: Jean Fritz , Yang Zhr Cheng
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group; (March 1, 1988)

  • Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt

Authors: Deborah Hopkinson , James Ransome
Publisher: Dragonfly Books; (August 1, 1995)

  • Seminole Diary : Remembrances of a Slave

Author: Dolores Johnson
Publisher: Atheneum; 1st ed edition (September 1, 1994)

  • If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad

Author: Ellen Levine
Publisher: Scholastic; Reissue edition (February 1, 1993)

  • Escape from Slavery : Five Journeys to Freedom

Author: Doreen Rappaport
Publisher: HarperTrophy; Reprint edition (January 31, 1999)

  • When I Left My Village

Authors: Maxine Schur , J. Brian Pinkney , Maxine Rose Schur
Publisher: Dial Books; (December 1, 1995)

  • One Day We Had to Run: Refugee Children Tell Their Stories in Words and Paintings

Author: Sybella Wilkes
Publisher: Millbrook Press; (September 1, 1995)


Global Communities

  • Umm El Madayan: An Islamic City Through the Ages

Authors: Abderrahman Ayoub , Jamila Binous , Abderrazak Gragueb
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co; (March 1, 1994)

  • Not So Very Long Ago: Life in a Small Country Village

Author: Philippe Fix
Publisher: Penguin USA ; 1st American ed edition (February 1, 1994)

  • Laborers for Liberty : American Women 1865-1890 (Young Oxford History of Women in the United States , Vol 6)

Author: Harriet Sigerman
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Illustrate edition (March 1, 1998)

  • The Seminoles (First Americans Book)

Authors: Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve , Ronald Himl
Publisher: Holiday House; 1st ed edition (March 1, 1994)

  • Barrio: Jose's Neighborhood

Author: George Ancona
Publisher: Sagebrush Education Resources; ( March 1, 2001 )

  • My New York : New Anniversary Edition

Author: Kathy Jakobsen
Publisher: Megan Tingley; Anniversry edition ( October 1, 2003 )

  • Come Home With Me: A Multicultural Treasure Hunt (Kids Bridge Book)

Authors: Aylette Jenness , Laura Desantis , Laura De Santis
Publisher: New Press; 1st ed edition (September 1, 1993)

  • City Within a City: How Kids Live in New York 's Chinatown (World of My Own)

Authors: Kathleen Krull , David Hautzig
Publisher: Demco Media; (May 1996)

  • When Will the Fightings Stop: A Childs View of Jerusalem

Author: Richard Morris
Publisher: Atheneum; 1st ed edition (March 14, 1990)

  • My Village in Morocco : Mokhtar of the Atlas Mountains (Silver Burdett Library Selection)

Authors: Elisabeth Thiebaut , B Daly
Publisher: Silver Burdett Press; (December 1, 1985)

  • A Multicultural Portrait of Life in the Cities (Perspectives)

Author: David K. Wright
Publisher: Benchmark Books (NY); (September 1, 1993)


Discrimination in American History

  • Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II

Author: Penny Colman
Publisher: Crown Publishers; Reprint edition (February 1, 1998)

  • Founding Mothers

Author: Linda Depauw
Publisher: Sagebrush Education Resources; (October 1, 1999)

  • Radical Red

Author: James Duffy
Publisher: Atheneum; 1st ed edition (October 31, 1993)

  • A Long Way to Go (Once upon America )

Authors: Zibby Oneal , Michael Dooling
Publisher: Penguin USA ; (May 1, 1990)

  • American Women: Their Lives in Their Words

Author: Doreen Rappaport
Publisher: Harpercollins Juvenile Books; Reprint edition (November 1, 1992)

  • The Number on My Grandfather's Arm

Authors: David A. Adler , Rose Eichenbaum
Publisher: Urj Press; (October 1, 1987)

  • The Big Lie: A True Story

Authors: Isabella Leitner , Irving A. Leitner , Judy Pedersen
Publisher: Scholastic; (November 1, 1994)

  • Foster's War

Author: Carolyn Reeder
Publisher: Scholastic; Reprint edition ( November 1, 2000 )

  • I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp 1942-1944

Author: Hana Volavkova
Publisher: Schocken Books; Revised edition (March 1, 1994)

  • So Far from the Sea

Author: Eve Bunting
Publisher: Clarion Books; (April 20, 1998)

  • The Children of Topaz: The Story of a Japanese-American Internment Camp Based on a Classroom Diary

Authors: Michael O. Tunnell , George W. Chilcoat
Publisher: Holiday House; 1st ed edition (April 1, 1996)

  • Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories

Author: Ellen Levine
Publisher: Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media; (October 2001)

  • The Year They Walked: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Author: Beatrice Siegel
Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1st ed edition (April 1, 1992)

  • Now Is Your Time! The African-American Struggle for Freedom

Author: Walter Dean Myers
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; (November 1, 1991)


African Nations

  • Master Weaver from Ghana

Authors: Gilbert Ahiagble , Louise Meyer , Nestor Hernandez
Publisher: Open Hand Pub.; 2nd edition (October 1, 1998)

  • The Land and People of Zimbabwe (Portraits of the Nations Series)

Author: Patricia Cheney
Publisher: Harpercollins Library; (July 1, 1990)

  • Zimbabwe (New True Books)

Author: Karen Jacobsen
Publisher: Scholastic Library Pub (P); (November 1, 1990)

  • Africa Is Not A Country

Authors: Margy Burns Knight , Mark Melnicove , Anne Bibley O'Brien
Publisher: Millbrook Press; ( January 1, 2002 )

  • The Storytellers

Author: Ted Lewin
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers; (April 1, 1998)

  • Malcolm's Village

Author: Gunilla Lundgren
Publisher: Firefly Books; (July 1, 1985)

  • No More Strangers Now: Young Voices from a New South Africa

Authors: Tim McKee , Anne Blackshaw
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishing; Reprint edition ( June 1, 2000 )

  • Lord of the dance: An African retelling

Author: Véronique Tadjo
Publisher: Lippincott; 1st American ed edition (1989)

  • Galimoto ( Reading Rainbow Book)

Author: Karen Lynn Williams
Publisher: HarperTrophy; Reprint edition (August 21, 1991)

  • Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book (Picture Puffins)

Authors: Muriel L. Feelings , Tom Feelings
Publisher: Puffin Books; Reissue edition (September 1, 1981)

  • A Is for Africa

Author: Ifeoma Onyefulu
Publisher: Puffin Books; Reprint edition (July 1, 1997)

  • Sundiata : Lion King of Mali

Author: David Wisniewski
Publisher: Clarion Books; Reprint edition (January 22, 1999)

  • Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales (Aesop Accolades)

Author: Nelson Mandela
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; ( November 18, 2002 )


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Last Revised: May 29, 2008