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Books on peace for elementary school children
Books about Gandhi:
Books about Cesar Chavez
1. Cesar Chavez, Lucile Davis, 0-7368-8425-4
2. Cesar Chavez, Ginger Wadsworth 978-1-57505-826-9
3. Cesar Chavez, Susan Eddy 0-516-27923-8 Scholastic
4. Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez, Kathleen Krull, 0-15-201437-3
5. Picture Book of Cesar Chavez, David A. Adler and Michael S. Adler, 9780823423835
Books about Martin Luther King, Jr.
Other Books on Special People
Who Is/Who Was/What Was Series:
Historical Fiction on Movements
General Books on Peace, self-respect, getting along, etc.
Books from Peaceabilities
Other DVD :
Removed books no longer available:
- Be the Change, Arun Gandhi
- Eyewitness Gandhi
- Gandhi Young Nation Builder, Kudlinski, Kathleen
- Gandhi for Kids, Ellen Mahoney
- Gandhi, A photographic story of a life, Amy Pastan
- Gandhi: The Young Protester Who Founded a Nation, Philip Wilkinson
- Grandfather Gandhi, Arun Gandhi and Bethany Hegedus
- A Taste of Freedom, Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
- Who Was Gandhi? Dana Meachen Rau
Books about Cesar Chavez
1. Cesar Chavez, Lucile Davis, 0-7368-8425-4
2. Cesar Chavez, Ginger Wadsworth 978-1-57505-826-9
3. Cesar Chavez, Susan Eddy 0-516-27923-8 Scholastic
4. Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez, Kathleen Krull, 0-15-201437-3
5. Picture Book of Cesar Chavez, David A. Adler and Michael S. Adler, 9780823423835
Books about Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day: Dreaming of Change by Joel Kupperstein. (must order from Alphabet Station)
- I Have a Dream, Margaret Davidson 0-590-44230-9
- Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King, Jean Marzollo Scholastic
- Marching to the Mountaintop, Ann Bausum
- Martin Luther King Jr. Let Freedom Ring, Michael Teitelbaum and Lewis Helfand (graphic novel)
- Martin’s Big Words, Doreen Rappaport
- Meet Martin Luther King, Jr., James T. deKay Landmark Books
- Martin Luther King, Jr, Frances E. Ruffin 0-448-42421-5
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Kitson Jazynka, National Geographic Kids
Other Books on Special People
- After Gandhi, One Hundred Years of Nonviolent Resistance, Anne Sibley O’Brien and Perry Edmond O’Brien
- A Boy Named Beckoning, Gina Capaldi
- Chief Joseph, The Voice for Peace, Lorraine Jean Hopping, 978-1-4027-6842-2
- Claudette Colvin, Phillip Hoose, 978-0-374-31322-7
- Dolores Huerta, A hero to the migrant workers, Sarah Warren
- Dorothy Day, Maura Shaw 1-59473-011-3
- Her Right Foot, Dave Eggers (on Statue of Liberty.)
- Who was Frederick Douglass? April Jones Prince
- Emma’s Poem, Linda Glaser, 978-0-547-17184-5
- Liberty’s Voice, the story of Emma Lazarus, Erica Silverman, 978-0-525-47859
- John Lewis: March books 1, 2, and 3
- The Mangrove Tree, Susan L. Roth & Cindy Trumbore, 978-1-60060-459-1
- Mahavira, Manoj Jain
- For the Right to Learn Malala Yousafzai’s Story, Rebecca Langston-George
- I am Malala, Young Readers Edition, Christina Lamb and Malala Yousafzai
- March, Book One, John Lewis, 978-1-60309-3002
- Marching for Freedom, Elizabeth Partridge, 978-0-670-01189-6
- Molly Bannaky, Alice McGill 0-395-72287-X
- Moses, Carole Boston Weatherford 078685175-9
- Peace Warriors
- Rachel Carson, Thomas Locker 978-1555-9169-54
- Temple Grandin, Sy Montgomery 978 0547 44315 7
- Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom, Lynda Blackmon Lowery
- We’ve Got a Job, The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March, Cynthia Levinson
- When Marian Sang, Pam Munoz Ryan
- The Yellow Star, Carmen Agra Deedy 1-56145-208-4
Who Is/Who Was/What Was Series:
- Cesar Chavez
- March on Washington
- Sonia Sotomayor
- Who Is Malala Yousafzai? Dinah Brown
- Who Was Susan B. Anthony?, Pam Pollack and Meg Belviso
Historical Fiction on Movements
- A Band of Angels, Deborah Hopkinson 0-698-81062-8
- Belle, the Last Mule at Gee’s Bend, Calvin Alexander Ramsey & Bettye Stroud
- Freedom on the Menu, Carole Boston Weatherford, 0-8037-2860-3
- Inside Out & Back Again, Thanhha Lai, 978-006-196-278-3
- A Long Walk To Water, Linda Sue Park, 978-0-547-25127-1
- Lillian’s Right to Vote, Jonah Winter and Shane W. Evans
- One City, Two Brothers, Chris Smith, 978-1-84686-042-3
- Ruth and the Green Book, Calvin Alexander Ramsey, 978-0-7613-5255-6
- Si, Se Puede! Yes, We Can! Janitor Strike in L.A., Diana Cohn 0-938317-66-0
- Sit-In, Andrea Davis Pinkney, 978-0-316-07016-4
- Sylvia & Aki, Winifred Conkling, 978-1-58246-337-7
- We March, Shane W. Evans
General Books on Peace, self-respect, getting along, etc.
- Anh’s Anger, Gail Silver
- Buzzy the Bumblebee, Denise Breenan-Nelson and Michael Glenn Monroe, 1-58536-366-6, Sleeping Bear Press
- The Crayon Box that Talked, Shane DeRolf, ISBN: 0-679-88611-7
- Enemy Pie, Derek Munson, ISBN 0-8118-2778-X
- I Came from the Water, Vanita Oelschlager 978-0-9832904-5-2
- Ordinary Mary’s Extraordinary Deed, Emily Pearson
- In Our Mothers’ House, Patricia Polacco 978-0399-25076-7
- PEOPLE, Peter Spier, 0-385-24469-x
- The Rainbow Fish, Marcus Pfister 9781558580091
- Sneetches and Other Stories, Dr. Seuss, , 0-394-80089-3, Random House
- Somewhere Today: A Book of Peace, Shelley Moore Thomas and Eric Futran, ISBN-13: 978-0-8075-7544-4; ISBN-10: 0-8075-7544-5
- Stand Tall Molly Lou Melon, PattyLovell, ISBN 0-399-23416-0
- The Tale of Despereaux, Kate DiCamilllo, 2003
- And to Think That We Thought That We’d Never Be Friends, Mary Ann Hoberman, ISBN 0-440-41776-7
- What does Peace feel like? V. Radunsky
- Whoever You Are, Mem Fox and Leslie Staub, 0-15-216406-5
Books from Peaceabilities
- The Other Way to Listen, Byrd Baylor, 9780-6898-10534
- Stone Soup, Heather Forest, 9780-8748-34987
- Stone Soup, Jon J. Muth, 9789-0-43933-9094
- Smoky Night, Eve Bunting, 9780152-699543
- Old Turtle, Douglas Wood, 31120-02379-5577
- The Honest-to-Goodness Truth, Patricia C. McKissack, 0-689-82668-0
- The Quilt makers Gift, Jeff Brumbeau, 0-439-30910-7
- Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch, 3 1120 04094 8142
Other DVD :
- Gandhi (dvd)
- Force More Powerful (dvd)
Removed books no longer available:
- Young Martin Luther King, Jr. “I Have a Dream” Joanna Mattern
- I Have a Dream by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., foreword by Coretta Scott King
- Sheila Rivera, Mohandas Gandhi 978-0-8225-6383-9
- Peter and Connie Roop, Let’s Dream, Martin Luther King, Jr. 0-439-55443-8, Scholastic
- No One Makes it Alone, Andrew Valdez
- Demi, Gandhi 0-689-84149-3
- Shaw, Maura D., Gandhi: India’s Great Soul 1-893351-91-8
- Thich Nhat Hanh, Maura Shaw 1-893361-87-X
- Farmworker’s Friend, David R. Collins
- Logue, Mary, Forgiveness the Story of Mahatma Gandhi
- Give a Goat, Jan West Schrock, 978-0-88448-30104
- Luba, Luba Tryszynska-Frederick, 1-58246-098-1
- Sawyer, Kem Knapp, Mohandas Gandhi,
