Returned Peace Corps Volunteers International Calendar

Panama

Grannie jus' come!
by Ana Sisnett; pictures by Karen Lusebrink
Publisher: Children's Book Press, c1997
ISBN-13: 978-0-89239-150-9
Interest Level: K-3
Ages 6 - 9

Vanuatu

 

Niger

Flyaway girl
by Ann Grifalconi
Publisher: Little, Brown, c1991
ISBN-13: 978-0-316-32866-1
Interest Level: K-3
Ages 6-9

Moldova

Moldova
by Patricia Sheehan and Lynette Quek
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, p2011, c2011
ISBN-13: 978-1-60870-025-7
Interest Level: 5-8
Ages 10-14

Ecuador

The Queen of Water
by Laura Resau and Maria Virginia Farinango
Publisher: Delacorte Press, p2011, c2011
ISBN-13: 978-0-385-73897-2
Interest Level: YA
Ages 13 & up

Ghana

Ananse and the lizard: a West African tale
retold and illustrated by Pat Cummings
Publisher: Henry Holt, p2002, c2002
ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-6476-6
Interest Level: K-3
Ages 6-9

Peru

Tonight is Carnaval
by Arthur Dorros; illustrated with arpilleras sewn by the members of the Club de Madres Virgen del Carmen of Lima, Peru
Publisher: Dutton, c1991
ISBN-13: 978-0-525-44641-5
Interest Level: K-3
Ages 6-9

Congo

Monkey For Sale
by Sanna Stanley
Publisher: Frances Foster Books, c2002
Interest level: PreK-3
Ages 2-9

Nepal

We need to go to school: voices of the rugmark children
compiled by Tanya Roberts-Davis
Published by Groundwood / Douglas & McIntyre, 2001
48 pages
ISBN: 0-88899-425-7
Ages 10 and older

Swaziland

Jubela
by Cristina Kessler; illustrated by JoEllen McAllister Stammen
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2001
ISBN-13: 978-0-689-81895-0
Interest Level: K-3
Ages 6-9

Afghanistan

The breadwinner
by Deborah Ellis
Publisher: House of Anansi, Distributed in the U.S.A. by Publishers Group West, c2000
ISBN-13: 978-0-88899-416-5
ISBN-10: 0-88899-416-8
Interest Level: 5-8
Ages 10-14

Ukraine

The mitten: a Ukrainian folktale
adapted and illustrated by Jan Brett
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, p2009, c1989
ISBN-13: 978-0-399-25296-9
Interest Level: K-3
Ages: 6-9

Georgia

Georgia to Georgia: making friends in the U.S.S.R.
by Laurie Dolphin; photographs by E. Alan McGee
Publisher: Tambourine, p1991, c1991
ISBN-13: 978-0-688-09897-1
ISBN-10: 0-688-09897-5
Interest Level: 3-6
Ages 8-12