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Peaceful pieces: poems and quilts about peace
by Anna Grossnickle Hines
Ages 5 - 10
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Poems illustrated by beautiful handmade quilts, explore peace in all its various and sometimes surprising forms: from peace at home to peace on a worldwide scale to peace within oneself.
Peace is the World Smiling
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Music for Little People with an anthology of peace songs for families.
The peace book
by Todd Parr
Ages 4 - 8
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Describes peace as making new friends, sharing a meal, feeling good about yourself, and more.
Peace Week in Miss Fox's class
by Eileen Spinelli
Ages 4 - 8
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For "Peace Week," the animals in Miss Fox's class find ways to be peaceful instead of squabbling with each other.
Seeds of change
by Jen Cullerton Johnson and Sonia Lynn Sadler
Ages 4 - 8
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A biography of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmentalist Wangari Maathai, a female scientist who made a stand in the face of opposition to women's rights and her own Greenbelt Movement, an effort to restore Kenya's ecosystem by planting millions of trees.
Truce : the day the soldiers stopped fighting
by Jim Murphy
Ages 10 and up
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Describes how, at Christmas, 1914, during World War I, in defiance of their officers' orders, a truce was declared by soldiers on opposing sides, who stopped fighting to engage in a spontaneous Christmas celebration with their "enemies."
Weezer changes the world
by David McPhail
Ages 4 - 8
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Weezer is an ordinary puppy, until one day something "striking" happens and he is able to help doctors find cures and world leaders make peace.
Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the trees of Kenya
by Donna Jo Napoli; illustrated by Kadir Nelson
Ages 4 - 8
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The story of Wangari Maathai, who in 1977 founded the Green Belt Movement, an African grassroots organization, and in 2004 was the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The stars will still shine
by Cynthia Rylant
Ages 4 - 8
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In pictures and rhyming text, this verse reassures the reader that life's familiar things, such as stars that shine and sleeping kittens, will continue as they always have.
