NB: All Mantra Books Are Dual Language

Global and anti-racist perspectives in the curriculum – compiled by Helen Griffin (DECSY) and Bev Booker (Service Leader Ethnic Minority Children, Rotherham) (NB: all Mantra books are dual language)

*good stimulus for P4C

All books are available to purchase from DECSY with a 20% discount for member organisations / schools. Many are also available for loan.

Foundation Stage: Some recommended books

Rhymes, chants, Acker Backa Boo! Opal Dunn, Frances Lincoln We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, Michael Rosen, action verses, We’re Going on a Lion Hunt, David Axtell, Macmillan Mantra poetry Engines, Engines, An Indian Counting Rhyme, Lisa Bruce, Fruits, Valerie Bloom & David Axtell, Macmillan Bloomsbury Hush Baby Hush, Lullabies from Around the World, To Market! To Market! Anushka Ravishankar, Tara Kathy Henderson, Frances Lincoln

Fiction Mama Panya’s Pancakes, Mary and Rich Chamberlin, Sahir Goes to the Dentist, Chris Petty, Mantra Barefoot Books My Mother’s Sari, Sandhya Rao, North South Books Papa, Do you Love Me? Barbara M. Joosse, Chronicle (dual language) Books Silly Billy, Anthony Browne, Walker But Martin! June Counsel, Picture Corgi Something Else, Chris Riddell, Puffin Cleversticks, Bernard Ashley, Collins The Swirling Hijaab, Na’imh bint Robert, Mantra Elizabeti’s Doll, Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen, Lee & Low Why the Sky is Far Away, Mary-Joan Gerson, Little, Handa’s Surprise, Eileen Browne, Walker Brown & Co. The Best Home, The Best Blanket, Sarah Nash, Tamarind That’s My Mum, Henriette Barkow, Mantra So Much!, Full, Full, Full of Love, Trish Cooke, Walker Through My Window, Wait and See, Tony Bradman, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Bill Martin, Frances Lincoln Jr., Mantra Bear Flies High, Michael Rosen, Bloomsbury What Shall We Do With The Boo Hoo Baby?, Cressida Floppy stories, Mantra Cowell, Mantra Ruby’s School Walk, Kathryn White, Barefoot

Copyright DEC(SY) 2014 1 Tom and Sofia Start School, Henriette Barkow, Mantra What Shall I Make? Nandini Nayer, Frances Lincoln Nita Goes to Hospital, Henriette Barkow, Mantra Off to Market, Elizabeth Dale, Frances Lincoln Lulu Loves the Library, Anna McQuinn Lulu Loves Stories, Anna McQuinn Non-fiction One Little Crab, Kathy Knowles, Osu Children’s Library I’m Like You, You’re Like Me, Cindy Gainer, Free Lebanon 1-2-3, Marijean Moran, Soma Spirit One Two Three! Anushka Ravishankar, Tara My World, Your World, Melanie Walsh, Picture One is a Drummer, Roseanne Thong, Chronicle Corgi A is for Ampe, Kathy Knowles, Osu Children’s Library Shades of People, Shelley Rotner, Scholastic Moja Means One, A Swahili Counting Book, Muriel Two Eyes, A Nose and a Mouth, Roberta Grobel Feelings Intrater, Scholastic Emeka’s Gift, Ifeoma Onyefulu Meet the Family: My Brother, My Dad, My Mum, My We All Went on Safari, Laurie Krebs & Julie Cairns, Sister, My Aunt & Uncle, Mary Auld, Franklin Watts Barefoot Hearing, Seeing, Smelling and Tasting, Paul Around the World Hair, Bicycles, Playtime, Kate Petty, Humphrey, Franklin Watts Frances Lincoln The Trouble with Dragons, Debi Gliori, Bloomsbury Sweet Dates to Eat, Jonny Zucker & Jan Barger, Frances What is Peace? Emma Damon, Mantra Lincoln My Arabic Words Book, Iman Publishing The World Came to My Place Today, Jo Readman, Eden I am a Muslim, (series with other faiths) Franklin Project Watts George Saves the World by Lunchtime, Jo Readman, I Love My Hair! Natasha Anastasia Tarpley, Little Eden Project Brown and Company I am Samuel (DECSY loan big book about Czech Roma Little Seeds, Charles Ghigna, Capstone Global child – non-fiction report) Library Come and Count With Us, Nottinghamshire Traveller Clothes, Food, Home, Play, Ifeoma Onyefulu, Service Frances Lincoln ABC UK, James Dunn, Frances Lincoln Vicky Goes to the Doctor, New Shoes for Helen, Ife’s First Haircut, Grandma Comes to Stay, Omer’s Favourite Place, Deron Goes to Nursery School, Ifeoma Onyefulu, Frances Lincoln

Poetry Hush Baby Hush, Lullabies from Around the For Every Child, UNICEF, Random House World, Kathy Henderson, Frances Lincoln We Are All Born Free, Amnesty International, Frances Lincoln Under the Spell of the Moon, Katherine Paterson, Frances Lincoln

Fiction Graphic novel: *The Arrival, Shaun Tan, Aesop’s Fables, Beverley Naidoo, Barefoot Hodder Barefoot Book of Earth Tales, Dawn Casey, Barefoot *The Silence Seeker, Ben Morley, Random *Mirror, Jeannie Baker, Walker House * Goal, Mina Javaherbin, Walker *14 Cows for America, Carmen Deedy, Peachtree

Non-Fiction Discover Countries Somali, Brazil, Pakistan, I am a Muslim (Hindu, Jewish, Sikh, Buddhist, Christian), Cath Ghana Sonya Newland, Wayland Senker, Franklin Watts T is for Turkey, B is for Brazil, P is for Pakistan, P is for Poland, I is for India, C is for China, J is for Jamaica etc , Frances Lincoln

Biography My Name is… Series of Biographies Desmond and the Very Mean Word, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, (Alexander the Great, Cleopatra, Walker Shakespeare, Gandhi, Marco Polo, Marie The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, William Kamkwamba, Harper Curie), Mantra True (novel). Picture book also available and website: The Django, Levi Pinfold, Templar http://williamkamkwamba.typepad.com/williamkamkwamba/book.html Walter Tull’s Scapbook, Michaela Morgan, Frances Lincoln

Fiction Amazing Grace, Mary Hoffman, Frances Lincoln Alfie’s Angels, Mantra The Swirling Hijaab , Mantra That’s My Mum, Mantra Through My Window, Wait and See, Tony Bradman, World Team, Tim Vyner, Red Fox Frances Lincoln Welcome to the World Baby, Mantra Lima’s Red Hot Chilli, Mantra Papa, Do you Love Me?, Barbara M. Joosse, Chronicle Mei Ling’s Hiccups, Mantra Bear Flies High, Michael Rosen, Bloomsbury Grandfather and I, Helen Buckley, Puffin *Silly Billy, Anthony Browne, Walker Lucy’s Quarrel, Get Lost, Laura, Lucy’s Rabbit, Buri and the Marrow, Henriette Barkow, Mantra Jennifer Northway, Frances Lincoln www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/drilldown/stories/2/6/1 Handa’s Surprise, Handa’s Hen, Mantra The Little Red Hen, Mantra We’re Going on a Lion Hunt, David Axtell, Macmillan Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Mantra Walking Through the Jungle, Mantra Don’t Cry Sly, Mantra Jambo Means Hello, Muriel Feelings, Puffin Buskers of Bremen, Mantra Story Cove Anansi stories, Bobby and Sherry The Elves and the Shoemaker, Mantra Norfolk, August House The Giant Turnip, Mantra The Clever Boy and the Terrible, Dangerous Animal, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Mantra Idries Shah, Hoopoe Goose Fables, Lion Fables, Fox Fables, Mantra The Hare and the Tortoise, Mantra The Gift of the Sun, Dianne Stewart, Frances Lincoln Pretty Salma (little Red Riding Hood), Niki Daly, Aziz the Storyteller, Vi Hughes, Tradewind Frances Lincoln *Something Else, Kathryn Cave, Puffin Mariana and the Merchild, Caroline Pitcher, Frances Dave and the Tooth Fairy, Verna Wilkins, Tamarind Lincoln *The Whisperer, Nick Butterworth, Harper Collins *Tusk, Tusk, David McKee, Andersen The Leopard and the Sky God, Usborne First Reading I Took the Moon for a Walk, Mantra Mum’s Late, Elizabeth Hawkins, Random House *Dinosaurs and all that Rubbish, Michael Foreman, Abdi’s Day, Verna Wilkins, Harrow Ethnic Minority Puffin Achievement Service *The Lorax, Dr.Seuss, Harper Collins Off to Market, Elizabeth Dale, Frances Lincoln The Wibbly, Wobbly Tooth, Mantra Grandma’s Saturday Soup, Mantra

Copyright DEC(SY) 2014 4 Non-fiction All Kinds of People, All Kinds of Feelings, All Kinds Dual language signs around school (Mantra) of Beliefs, Emma Damon, Tango Fruits, Valerie Bloom Kid’s Around the World Cookbook, Risolba Gioffre, Acker Backa Boo (games from around the world), Opal A & C Black Dunn My Talking Dictionary, Mantra Prita Goes to India, Prodeepta Das, Frances Lincoln W is for World, Kathryn Cave, Frances Lincoln Shanyi Goes to China, Sungwan So, Frances Lincoln A is for Ampe, Kathy Knowles, Osu Children’s Kamal goes to Trinidad, Malcolm Frederick, Frances Library Lincoln C is for China, etc Frances Lincoln Victoria Goes to Brazil, Maria Campos, Frances Lincoln The World Came to My Place Today, Jo Readman, Vicky Goes to the Doctor, New Shoes for Helen, Ife’s Random House First Haircut, Grandma Comes to Stay, Omer’s Favourite George Saves the World by Lunchtime, Jo Place, Deron Goes to Nursery School, Ifeoma Onyefulu, Readman, Random House Frances Lincoln I am a Muslim, (series with other faiths) Franklin Clothes, Food, Home, Play, Ifeoma Onyefulu, Frances Watts Lincoln ‘Feelings’ series Raintree We All Have Different Families, Melissa Higgins, Capstone Press

Poetry Under the Moon & Over the Sea, Caribbean poems, Around the World in Eighty Poems, James Berry, John Agard, Walker Macmillan All the Colours of the Earth, Wendy Cooling, Frances Lincoln

Literacy: Year 2

Fiction Masai and I, Virginia Kroll, Picture Puffin Samira’s Eid, Mantra Giant Hiccups, Jacqui Farley, Random House Gregory Cool, Caroline Binch Cleversticks, Bernard Ashley, Collins Leopard’s Drum, Jessica Souhami, Frances Lincoln *Hue Boy, Rita Mitchell, Frances Lincoln The Buskers of Bremen, Mantra *Once Upon A Time, Niki Daly, Frances Lincoln Jill and the Beanstalk, Mantra The Swirling Hijaab, Mantra Mary Hoffman: Amazing Grace, Encore Grace, *Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters (Cinderella), John Princess Grace, Starring Grace, Grace and Family, Steptoe, Picture Puffin *Colour of Home,

Copyright DEC(SY) 2014 5 The Gift of the Sun, Dianne de Stewart, Frances Lincoln Dinner of Smells, Humaira Rahsid, Bloomsbury Niki Daly: Jamela’s Dress, What’s Cooking Jamela!, Pass it Polly, Sarah Garland, Frances Lincoln Where’s Jamela? Happy Birthday Jamela, Song for The Farmer’s Wife, Idries Shah, Hoopoe Jamela, Once Upon A Time, Not so Fast Songolo, Pretty Hope for Haiti, Jesse Watson, G.P. Putnam Salma, *Herd Boy, *Azad’s Camel, Erika Pal, Frances Lincoln David McKee: *Tusk Tusk, *The Conquerors, *Three Mama Wata and the Monster, Veronique Tadjo, Monsters, *Two Monsters, *Hill & the Rock, *Denver, Mantra Lord of the Dance, Veronique Tadjo, Mantra

Non-fiction Kid’s Around the World Cookbook, Risolba Gioffre, A & Acker Backa Boo (games from around the world), C Black Opal Dunn Food and Celebrations: India, Japan, France, China, Here Comes the Bride!, Ifeoma Onyefulu Sylvia Goulding, Wayland *For Every Child (UN Convention on Children’s *We Are All Born Free (UN Declaration of Human Rights), UNICEF Rights), Frances Lincoln Our World of Water, Beatrice Hollyer, Frances Journey through Islamic Art, Na’ima bint Robert Lincoln

Poetry The Puffin Book of Utterly Brilliant Poetry, Puffin Hey Crazy Riddle, Trish Cooke, Frances Lincoln

Literacy Year 3

Fiction The Julian Stories, Ann Cameron, Random House Wasim One-Star, Chris Ashley, Frances Lincoln Samira’s Eid, Mantra Ferris Fleet the Wheelchair Wizard, Annie Dalton, Lima’s Red Hot Chilli, Mantra Tamarind The Most Beautiful Child, Debjani Chatterjee, My Grandpa and the Sea, Katherine Orr, Carolrhoda Cambridge University Press Pandora’s Box, Mantra The Children of Lir, Mantra Why the sky is far away, Mary-Joan Gerson, Little Brown Beowulf, Mantra Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears, Verna Aardema, Isis and Osiris, Mantra Picture Puffin Rama and the Demon King, Jessica Souhami The Man Who Caught a Magic Mermaid, Ahmed Iqbal Clever Anansi and the Boastful Bullfrog, H Patten, Ullah Education Trust

Copyright DEC(SY) 2014 6 Frances Lincoln Rani and the Wicked Witch, Raymond Gressieux, Mantra Boy Overboard, Morris Gleitzman, Penguin Being Ben, Jacqueline Roy, Walker Rashid and the Haupmann Diamond, Hassan The No 1 Car Spotter and the Firebird, Atinuke, Walker Radwan, Islamic Foundation The Secret Message, Mina Javaherbin, Hyperion Dear Greenpeace, Simon James (letters), Walker Curtain Up: The Good Time Boys, Hiawyn Oram, A & C Black Non-fiction *We are Britain, Benjamin Zephaniah, Frances Food and Celebrations: India, Japan, France, China, Lincoln Sylvia Goulding, Wayland Biographies: e.g. The Life of Stephen Lawrence, Kid’s Around the World Cookbook, Risolba Gioffre, A & C Verna Wilkins; A Picture Book of: Sojourner Truth, Black Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, David Adler; Benjamin Zephaniah, Verna Wilkins; Malorie Blackman, Verna Wilkins; Venus & Serena Williams, Madeline Donaldson Poetry Funky Chickens, Benjamin Zephaniah Everybody Got A Gift, Grace Nichols *Wicked World, Benjamin Zephaniah The Puffin Book of Utterly Brilliant Poetry, Puffin Under the Moon and Over the Sea, Walker A Poke in the I, Paul B. F Janeczko, Walker Talking Turkeys, Benjamin Zephaniah Fruits, Valerie Bloom Macmillan

Literacy Year 4

Fiction Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, Deborah Travelling Man, The Journey of Ibn Battuta, James Hopkinson, Alfred A. Knopf Rumford Dear Benjamin Banneker, Andrea Davis Pinkney, Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railway in the Sky, Voyager Faith Ringgold, Random House Almost to Freedom, V.N. Nelson, Lerner Publishing *War Horse, Michael Morpurgo, Egmont Don’t Say Ain’t, Irene Smails, Charlsebridge *I Believe in Unicorns, Michael Morpurgo, Walker African Princess, Joyce Hansen, Jump at the Sun The Golden Compass Movie Story Book, Kay *Something Else, Kathryn Cave, Puffin Woodward, Scholastic *Tales of Wisdom and Wonder, Hugh Lupton, Barefoot Yohance and the Dinosaurs, Alexis Obi, Tamarind Compare Cinderella stories from around the world: *A Sailing Boat in the Sky, Quentin Blake, Red Fox

Copyright DEC(SY) 2014 7 Cendrillon: A Caribbean Cinderella, Robert D. San *Fly, Eagle, Fly!, Gregorowski & Daly, Frances Souci, Aladdin Paperbacks Lincoln *Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters (Africa), John Steptoe, Nothing But Trouble, Alan Macdonald, White Puffin Wolves The Golden Sandal (Iraq), Rebecca Hickox, Holiday Gregory Cool, Caroline Binch, Frances Lincoln House *Aani and the Tree Huggers, Jeannine Atkins, Lee Yeh Hsien A Chinese Cinderella, Dawn Casey, Mantra & Low Wishbones (Chinese Cinderella), Barbara Ker Wilson, Abuela’s Weave, Omar S. Castenada, Lee & Low Frances Lincoln Grace and Family, Mary Hoffman, Frances Lincoln The Korean Cinderella, Shirley Climo, Harper Trophy *The Conquerors, David McKee, Andersen *Babu’s Song, Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen, Lee & Low *The Rabbits, John Marsden, Hodder *The Carpet Boy’s Gift, Pegi Deitz Shea, Tilbury House *Hue Boy, Rita Phillips Mitchell, Frances Lincoln *Selavi, Youme Landowne, Cinco Puntos Press *The Colour of Home, Mary Hoffman, Frances *Four Feet, Two Sandals, Karen Lynn Williams, Lincoln Eerdmans *Azzi in Between, Sarah Garland, Frances Lincoln

Non-fiction First News If the World Were A Village, A & C Black The Newspaper Otu Goes to the Sea, (fishing in Ghana) Noreen BBC Newsround Website Mian If A Bus Could Talk, The Story of Rosa Parks, Faith ”Talking About” Racism, Bruce Sanders Ringgold, Aladdin Books Adverts / campaigns by charities and pressure www.papapaa.org: explanation of where chocolate groups about environmental / development / comes from human rights / social justice issues www.onehen.org: explanation of micro finance based on For Every Child, UNICEF (UN Declaration on book of same name Rights of the Child)

Poetry Paint Me A Poem, Grace Nichols, A & C Black

Year 5 FIction Beverley Naidoo (Baba’s Gift, Puffin Journey to Malorie Blackman (Betsey Biggalow, Red Fox) Jo’Burg, Harper Collins) Chasing the Sun: Stories from Africa, Veronique Morris Gleitzmann (Boy Overboard, Girl Tadjo, A & C Black

Copyright DEC(SY) 2014 8 Underground, Puffin) The Great Snake, Stories from the Amazon, Sean Michael Morpurgo (War Horse, Egmont) Taylor, Frances Lincoln Fox Fables, Goose Fables, Lion Fables, Mantra The Dragon’s Tears, Mantra (East Asian folk tale) The Hare and the Tortoise, Mantra The Crow King, Mantra (East Asian folk tale) Pandora’s Box, Mantra (Greek myth) Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Mantra (Arabic folk Isis and Osiris, Mantra (Egyptian myth) tale) African Myths, Shahrukh Husain, Evans The Children of Lir, Mantra (Celtic legend) Indian Myths, Shahrukh Husain, Evans From Somalia With Love, Na’ima B. Robert, Frances The Barber’s Clever Wife, Narinder Dhami, A & C Lincoln Black The Oxford India Illustrated Children’s Tagore, The Breadwinner, Parvana’s Journey, Mud City by Sukanta Chaudhuri, OUP India Deborah Ellis, OUP Oxford *Spirited Away (DVD) Spilled Water, Sally Grindley, Bloomsbury Azur and Asmar The Princes Quest (DVD) Rickshaw Girl, Mitali Perkins, Charlesbridge *The Golden Compass (DVD and book of film) Publishing *Persepolis (DVD and book) Beowulf, Mantra (Anglo-Saxon epic) *Offside (DVD) The Ramayana for Young Readers, Milly Acharya, Harper Collins India *Rabbit Proof Fence (DVD and book) *Wondrous Oblivion (DVD) *Whale Rider (DVD and book) Kirikou and the Sorceress (DVD) Non-fiction *Brother Eagle Sister Sky, Chief Seattle, Puffin Links to other curriculum areas. I have a Dream, Scholastic (Martin Luther King) Campaigning literature of organisations such as Obama speech (web search) Oxfam, UNICEF, Friends of the Earth, Save the Speeches of Nelson Mandela (web search) Children, Greenpeace, Action Aid, Christian Aid (see Speeches of Malala (web search) websites) Speeches of Aung San Suu Kyi (Burmese Nobel Peace Prize winner) Speeches of Wangara Maathi (Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner)

Copyright DEC(SY) 2014 9 Poetry *Half-Caste, John Agard, Hodder Childrens Other anthologies of poetry recorded previously in *Everybody Got A Gift, Grace Nichols, A & C Black grid. *Talking Turkeys, Benjamin Zephaniah, Puffin Poetry Jump-up: An Anthology of Black Poetry, Grace Nichols, Puffin

Literacy Year 6 Fiction Issues based: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, John Boyne, Private Peaceful, Michael Morpurgo, Harper Collins Definitions The War Horse, Michael Morpurgo, Egmont When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, Judith Kerr, Harper Kensuke’s Kingdom, Michael Morpurgo, Egmont Collins Gilgamesh the Hero, Oxford, OUP Oxford *Lines in the Sand New Writings on War and Deborah Ellis Peace, Frances Lincoln Beverley Naidoo Malorie Blackman *The Island, Armin Greder, Allen & Unwin Non-fiction Show Racism the Red Card DVD and video pack Refugee Boy, Benjamin Zephaniah, Bloomsbury The Amazing Adventures of Equiano, Jean-Jacques Ten Amazing People, Maura D Shaw, Skylight Vayssieres, Ian Randle Publishers Paths Coming to England, Floella Benjamin, Walker The Real McCoy, Wendy Towle, Scholastics Liberte: the Life of Norr Inayat Khan, Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Frederick Douglass, Catherine A. Welch, Lerner Education Trust Vision of Beauty, Kathryn Lasky, Candlewick Press Christophe’s Story, Nicki Cornwell, Frances Lincoln Harriet Tubman, Laurie Calkhoven, Sterling Avicenna, Reza Shan Kazemi, Hood Hood Rosa, Nikki Giovanni, Square Fish A Picture Book of Harriet Tubman, David A. Adler The Voyage of Mae Jemison, Susan Canizares, Venus and Serena Williams, Madeline Donaldson, Lerner Scholastic Wilma Unlimited, Kathleen Krull, Harcourt First News Dear Benjamin Banneker, Andrea Davis Pinkney, The Newspaper Voyager Paperbacks UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNICEF Malorie Blackman, Verna Wilkins or Save the Children websites/ posters) Benjamin Zephaniah, Verna Wilkins