Outstanding International Books!
Booklists are great. With the huge number of books that are published every year it’s hard to keep track. Booklists help me find the best books that are being published each year and give me ideas on books to recommend to kids in the library.
One such booklist is the Outstanding International Books, selected by the United States chapter of the International Board on Books for Young People. A committee finds the best books, both fiction and non-fiction, published across the globe, including Canada. This year Constance Vidor and Ragina Shearer have used Google Maps to create a map highlighting all the titles on the list according to where the books are set.
The featured titles that are set in Canada include:
Click on the book covers above to discover more about these outstanding books.
Also on the map are books that are set in Africa, Australia, India, Iran, Afghanistan, England, Germany, France, Portugal and more. Included on this list are books for a wide range of grade levels from kindergarten to grade 12.
Books can be pretty amazing in that you don’t have to go further than your bedroom or your local library to experience the world and its many cultures and landscapes.
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