CitizenKid^TM: Change can happen one kid at a time

SPONSORED BY: Kids Can Press and School Library Journal. Starts: Tuesday, September 28, 2010; 3:00-4:00 pm EDT.

Are you looking for a way to get your students thinking and talking about how they can make a difference in the world? Join Katie Smith Milway, author of One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference and The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough and Valerie Wyatt, author of How to Build Your Own Country, as they discuss how their books and others in the CitizenKid collection can inform children about the world and inspire them to be better global citizens. School librarian Melissa Swenson will also be sharing her ideas on how to use the CitizenKid series of books in classrooms and libraries.

The eight books in the CitizenKid collection introduce children aged 8 to 12 to complex global issues by using a single metaphor or parable to make them kid-sized. Water conservation, for example, is discussed using the metaphor of a well because we all use water from the same global well. Other topics in the collection to date include biodiversity, food security, microlending, citizenship and global awareness. Beautifully illustrated, well written and solidly researched, the CitizenKid books published by Kids Can Press provide an inspiring and often surprising look at the world and kids' place in it.

Panelists:

Katie Smith Milway, author of One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference and The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough

Valerie Wyatt, author of How to Build Your Own Country; editor, Kids Can Press

Melissa Swenson, school librarian, Meiklejohn Elementary, Arvada, CO

Moderator:

Dodie Ownes, Editor, SLJ Teen

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