Synopses & Reviews
Talking Walls: Discover Your World introduces young readers to different cultures and different issues around the world by telling the stories of walls and how they can hold a community together or separate it.Featured walls include the Great Wall of China, the murals of Diego Rivera, Nelson Mandela's prison walls, a Holocaust memorial in Poland, Ndebele wall designs in South Africa, Hadrian's Wall in England, and the Peace Lines in Belfast, Northern Ireland.These books will spark the curiosity of young readers as they learn about our world and its amazing diversity.
Synopsis
A new combined edition of Talking Walls and Talking Walls: The Stories Continue. This newly revised and updated edition invites you on an expanded journey to become citizens of our world. The more we learn about our neighbors and ourselves across the street or across the globe, the more we find points of connection.
Synopsis
In this book walls really do talk, and oh, the stories they tell.This new edition combines the beloved children's books Talking Walls and Talking Walls: The Stories Continue. Together, those titles sold more than 170,000 copies. This new edition, thoroughly revised by the author, makes the text more accessible to young readers and English Language Learners and produces a book that is ideal for reading aloud. The back matter includes a world map that helps readers locate the many walls described, as well as additional information about the walls, the places, and the people.
The Talking Walls books have been much honored, including:
- Top 25 Non-Fiction Children's Books Boston Globe
- Children's Books of Distinction Hungry Mind Review
- Noteworthy Book from Parallel Cultures: Horn Book
- Paperback Plum Booklinks
- Notable Children's Trade Book in the Social Studies: Children's Book Council/National Council on the Social Studies
- Winner of a Mom's Choice Gold Award -- Picture Books category