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African Countries:
The story of Little Babaji by Helen Bannerman (Harpercollins, 1996)
Jungle Drums by Graeme Base (Doubleday, 2004)
Where’s Jamela? and Jamela’s Dress by Niki Daly
Osa’s Pride by Ann Grifalconi (Little, Brown & Co., 1990)
Papa, do you love me? by Barbara Joosse (Raincoast Books, 2005)
Nana’s Cold Days by Adwoa Badoe (Douglas & McIntyre, 2002)
Africa brothers and sisters by Virginia Kroll (Four Winds Press, 1993)
Somewhere in Africa by Ingrid Mennen (Dutton Children’s Books, 1990)
The Talking Cloth by Rhonda Mitchell (Orchard Books, 1997)
My rows and pile of coins, Kitoto the Mighty and A Promise to the Sun by Tololwa M. Mollel
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1987)
Oh, No, Tot! by Katrin Hyman Tchana & Louise Tchana Pami (Scholastic Press, 1997)
Something Beautiful by Sharon Dennis Wyeth (Dragonfly Books, 1998)
Asian Countries:
Daisy Comes Home by Jan Brett (G.P. Putnam’s Sons., 2002)
The name jar by Yangsook Choi (Alfred A. Knopf, 2001)
Paper Lanterns by Stefan Czernicki (Charlesbridge, 2001)
How my parents learned to eat by Ina Friedman (Houghton Mifflin, 1984)
Bebop-a-do-walk by Sheila Hamanaka (Simon & Schuster, 1995)
Yoshi’s Feast by Kimiko Kajikawa (Dorling Kindersley, 2000)
My First Chinese New Year by Karen Katz (Henry Holt, 2004)
Dim Sum for Everyone and Kite Flying by Grace Lin
Sumi’s First Day of School Ever by Soyung Pak (Viking, 2003)
My Name is Yoon by Helen Recorvits (Frances Foster, 2003)
Me and Mr. Mah by Andrea Spalding (Orca Books, 1999)
Mei-Mei Loves the Morning by Margaret Holloway Tsubakiyama (Albert Whitman & Company, 1999)
The Seven Chinese Sisters by Kathy Tucker (Albert Whitman & Company, 2003)
Suki’s Kimono by Chieri Uegaki (Kids Can Press, 2003)
Yoko and Yoko’s Paper Cranes by Rosemary Wells
Share the sky by Ting-xing Ye (Annick Press, 1999)
The Jade Necklace by Paul Yee (Crocodile Books, 2002)
East Indian and Middle Eastern Countries:
Heart of a Tiger by Marsha Diane Arnold (Dial Press, 1995)
Aani and the tree huggers by Jeannine Atkins (Lee & Lowe Books, 1995)
The Librarian of Basra by Jeanette Winter (Harcourt, 2005)
Nadia’s Hands by Karen English (Boyds Mills Press, 1999)
Lights for Gita, A Gift for Gita and Roses for Gita by Rachna Gilmore (Second Story Press)
The bird who was an elephant by Aleph Kamal (J.B. Lippincott, 1990)
Silly Chicken and Ruler of the Courtyard by Rukhsana Khan
Monsoon by Uma Krishnaswami (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2003)
Baya Baya Lulla-by-a by Megan McDonald (Atheneum, 2004)
From Far Away by Robert Munsch (Annick Press, 1995)
The story of Wali Dad by Kristina Rodanas (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1988)
Nine Animals and the Well by James Rumford (Houghton Mifflin Co., 2003)
Mexican, Central, Latin and South American Countries:
Rosa Raposa by F. Isabel Campoy (Harcourt Inc., 2002)
The Shaman’s Apprentice and The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry (Harcourt Brace & Co.)
The Hummingbird’s Gift by Stefan Czernecki (Hyperion, 1994)
Julio’s Magic by Arthur Dorros (HarperCollins, 2005)
The Fabulous Firework Family by James Flora (Maxwell Macmillan, 1994)
Pedrito’s Day and The Long Road by Luis Garay
In Rosa’s Mexico and Elena’s Serenad by Campbell Geeslin
The cat who came for tacos by Diana Star Helmer (Albert Whitman & Company, 2003)
New Shoes for Silvia by Johanna Hurwitz (Morrow Books, 1993)
Journey of the red-eyed tree frog by Martin and Tanis Jordan (Simon & Schuster, 1991)
One Smiling Grandma by Ann Marie Linden (Heinemann, 1992)
Erandi’s Braids by Antonio Hernandez Madrigal (J.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1999)
The Night the Moon Fell by Pat Mora (Groundwood Books, 2000)
Saturday Sancocho by Leyla Torres (Sunburst Book, 1995)
So Say the Little Monkeys by Nancy Van Laan (Atheneum Books, 1998)
European Countries:
The wooden doll by Susan Bonners (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1991)
The Mitten, Gingerbread Baby and The trouble with Trolls by Jan Brett
Gleam and Glow by Eve Bunting (Harcourt Inc., 2001)
Sasha’s matrioshka dolls by Jana Dillon (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003)
Boxes for Katje by Candace Fleming (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003)
There’s a dolphin in the grand canal by John Bemelmans Marciano (Viking, 2005)
Zoe Sophia’s Scrapbook: an adventure in Venice by Claudia Mauner & Elisa Smalley (Chronicle Books, 2003)
The Mouse and the Egg by William Mayne (Greenwillow books, 1980)
Crepes by Suzette by Monica Wellington (Dutton Childrens Books, 2004)
Australia and the Pacific Islands:
Going for Oysters by Jeanie Adams (Albert Whitman, 1994)
The Pumpkin Runner by Marsha Diane Arnold (Dial, 1998)
Where the forest meets the sea by Jeannie Baker (Greenwillow Books, 1988)
A Nice walk in the jungle by Nan Bodsworth (Viking Penguin, 1989)
Possum Magic by Mem Fox (Harcourt Brace & Co., 1990)
The tram to Bondi Beach by Elizabeth Hathorn (Kane/Miller Book, 1989)
Ernie dances to the didgeridoo by Alison Lester (Houghton Mifflin, 2001)
The biggest frog in Australia by Susan L. Roth (Simon & Schuster, 1996)
The biggest soap by Carole Lexa Schaefer (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2004)
Farmer Schulz’s ducks by Colin Thiele (HarperCollins, 1988)
Snap and Wombat Stew by Marcia Vaughan
The old woman who loved to read by John Winch (Holiday House, 1997)
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