The Spirit That Moves Us, Volume I

Written by Laura R. Petovello, J.D., revised in October, 1998, by Donna Taranko and Sharon Nichols in association with the Holocaust Human Rights Center of Maine, The Spirit That Moves Us is for use with children in grades K-4. This guide helps educators explore such issues as prejudice and adversity through the use of children's books. Meant to be a resource and inspiration for teachers, it contains annotations for 23 children's books, lesson plans, discussion questions, and hands-on activities divided by curriculum areas. The guide helps children understand differences between people and the problems these differences can cause. The guide contains background articles for teachers on multiculturalism and moral education, as well as resource sections containing books, organizations, and videos. The book list includes:

• Everybody Cooks Rice
• Ben's Trumpet
• How My Parents Learned to Eat
• My Buddy
• Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
• Gluskabe and the Four Wishes
• Brother Rabbit: A Cambodian Tale
• The Woman Who Outshone the Sun
• The Mitten
• Sam Johnson and the Blue Ribbon Quilt
• Blueberries for Sal
• Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen
• Amazing Grace
• Tar Beach
• Angel Child, Dragon Child
• The Hundred Dresses
• White Wash
• Terrible Things
• Best Friends
• The Lily Cupboard: A Story of the Holocaust
• The Number on My Grandfather's Arm
• Child of the Warsaw Ghetto
• Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story

This volume is out of print, and is available only online (4.3 M PDF document).