Suggested Quaker Children and JYF resources (from Workshop: Bringing Children and JYF into the Centre of Quaker Life) (May 2012)
Books
Bayes, H.C., 2003. Respecting the Rights of Children and Young People. The James Backhouse Lecture 2003. Australia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia Inc. 101pp.
Boulding, E., 1975. The Personhood of Children. Nonviolence and Children in the Technological Society. Friends General Conference. 14pp.
Boulding, E., 1978. The Family as a Way into the Future. Pendle Hill Pamphlet 222. 24pp.
Boulding, E., 1996. Our Children – Our Partners –a New Vision for Social Action in the 21st Century. The James Backhouse Lecture 1996. Australia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Qaukers) in Australia Inc.
Boulding, Elise (1983) Children and Solitude Pendle Hill Publications, Pennsylvania.
Clayton, Phillip (2008) Adventures in the Spirit: God, World, Divine Action. Fortress Press, ISBN: 978-0800663186
Committee on Eldership and Oversight (2001) Pastoral Care of Children and Young People: Volume 7 of the Eldership and Oversight handbook series Quaker Books, Friends House, London. ISBN: 0 85245 331 0
Flanagan, Eileen. (2008) God Raising Us: Parenting as a Spiritual Practice Pendle Hill Publications, Pennsylvania. ISBN: 978 0 87574 396 7
Hawn, Goldie and Holden, Wendy. (2011) 10 Mindful Minutes: Giving Our Children- -and Ourselves--the Social and Emotional Skills to Reduce Stress and Anxiety for Healthier, Happy Lives. Perigree. ISBN 9780399536069
Heath, Harriet. (1996) Answering That of God in our Children Pendle Hill Publications, Pennsylvania. ISBN: 0 87574 315 3
Leaf, Munro. (1936) The Story of Ferdinand. Viking Juvenile ISBN: 978-0670674244 The classic story of the little bull who would rather just sit and smell the flowers than fight.
Nutall, Carolyn and Millington, Janet (2008) Outdoor Classrooms: a handbook for school gardens. PI Productions Photography ISBN: 9780975217733
Pendle Hill Publications Committee (1990) The Friendly Story Caravan. ISBN: 9780875749136 A collection of eighteen stories about Quakers and true life experiences concerning religious faith and morality.
Petrash, Carol. (1992) Earthwise: Environmental crafts and activities with young children. Floris Books. ISBN: 978-0863151583
Pierson, Mark. (2010) The Art of Curating Worship: Reshaping the Role of Worship Leader Sparkhouse Press. ISBN: 978 1451400847
Rehard, Mary Kay. (2002) Bringing God Home: Exploring Family Spirituality Pendle Hill Publications, Pennsylvania. ISBN: 0 87574 362 5
Seuss, Dr. (1971) The Lorax. Random House Books for Young Readers. ISBN: 978-0394823379
Sherlock, Marie (2003) Living Simply with Children Three Rivers Press, New York. ISBN: 0 609 80901 6
Stone, Mary K. (1995) Don’t Just Do Something Sit There: Developing Children’s Spiritual Awareness Religious and Moral Education Press, London. ISBN: 978 1 85175 105 1
Williams, Marcia. (1998) Jonah and the Whale. Walker books. ISBN: 978-0744560596 Beautifully illustrated!
Youth Ministries Program. (2011) Build It!: A Toolkit for Nurturing Intergenerational Spiritual Community Friends General Conference, Philadelphia. ISBN: 978 1 888305 93 7 (paperback) 978 1 888305 94 4 (downloadable pdf)
Pamphlets
Children and Quaker Meeting: Queries and Ideas A collection drawn from the life of Australia Yearly Meeting Children’s Committee (AYM) 1996, Canberra
Quaker Meeting and Me: A guide for children to Quaker Meeting for Worship Quaker Life (2010), Britain Yearly Meeting.
Katherine Purnell, What inspires you? What do you do in Meeting for Worship? Meeting for Learning Project
Snyder, Mary. (1999) Opening doors to Quaker worship. Quaker Press of FGC
Websites
Journeys in the Spirit, Britain Yearly Meeting http://www.quaker.org.uk/journeyschildren http://www.quaker.org.uk/journeysyouth
Help Increase the Peace Project (HIPP) http://afsc.org/resource/help-increase-peace-project-hipp
There are many Quaker websites, but the resources available to establish and maintain these websites vary greatly. Britain Yearly Meeting and Philadelphia Yearly Meeting are the unprogrammed Yearly Meeting websites with most information about Quaker thought, history and practice. The most user-friendly Quaker bookshop site is probably that maintained by Friends General Conference (FGC) in Philadelphia. In what follows I have provided brief annotations relating to websites I have found useful.
Lyndsay Farrall April 2012
www.quaker.org This is the most general of the Quaker websites and tries to list every other Quaker website in the world. It is coordinated from the USA and is a good way to track down the multitude of Quaker organisations. It can take some patience if you want to find some particular website or kind of website, but if there is a Quaker website relevant to your interest it will probably be on this list.
www.quakers.org.au The Quaker website maintained by Australia Yearly Meeting. It contains information about Australian Quakers, their publications, and their Meetings. The “About Quakers” button on the front page of the website includes a heading, “Children”, in its drop-down menu. This link contains material placed on the website by the Yearly Meeting Children and Junior Young Friends Committee. There is much material on this website about Australian Quaker concerns and actions. The heading, “Quaker Books for Sale” in the drop down menu for Publications gives advice on how to obtain Quaker publications in Australia and from overseas sources.
Websites with material relevant to children and Junior Young Friends
www.quaker.org.uk Britain Yearly Meeting’s website contains a huge amount of material about Quakers, their history, their concerns and their present programs. Using the address http://www.quaker.org.uk/cyp-resources will take you directly to the section of the website detailing resources available from BYM for use with children and JYFs.
www.pym.org Philadelphia Yearly Meeting shares with AYM the tradition of unprogrammed worship. They also maintain a website with an enormous amount of material. http://www.pym.org/childrens-curriculum will take you directly to one section of the website listing material developed for use with children. There is a significant amount of material which can be downloaded free of charge. You may also wish to browse the section of the website at http://www.pym.org/programs/youth
www.fgcquaker.org Friends General Conference (FGC) is an umbrella organisation for Quakers of the unprogrammed tradition in the United States and Canada. It runs an annual summer conference usually attended by several hundred people of all ages and maintains a good bookshop in Philadelphia which takes orders via this site. www.quakerbooks.org is the website of the bookshop associated with FGC and is worth searching for appropriate material for children and young people.
Other Significant Quaker Websites
www.fcnl.org This is the website of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, a lobby group maintained by American Quakers in Washington DC. It contains some excellent material about Quaker peace and social justice concerns and is a good source for showing how Quakers might lobby national governments on such concerns. Its policy and action program is summed up as follows: “We Seek a World Free of War and the Threat of War; We Seek a Society with Equity and Justice for All; We Seek a Community Where Every Person's Potential May Be Fulfilled; We Seek an Earth Restored.” This is a key source for those interested in peace and social justice, but it has no material specifically designed for children.
www.quno.org This is the entry point for the Quaker United Nations Offices (QUNO) maintained in New York and Geneva. The Religious Society of Friends is one of many NGOs (Non-Government Organisations) formally affiliated with the United Nations and its offices have a small staff of professionals who work on human rights, peace and disarmament and development issues of concern to Quakers round the world. Several Australian Young Friends have worked as interns in both offices soon after graduating from university. The QUNO website does not have any specific material designed for children, but it does have a wealth of material about Quaker work at the UN.
www.fwccworld.org The website of the international organisation which coordinates contacts between Friends from different parts of the world and from different theological traditions.
Bookshops
• Britain Yearly Meeting • Friends General Conference • Philadelphia Yearly Meeting • Pendle Hill Bookshop • Canada Yearly Meeting • New Zealand Yearly Meeting • Friends United Meeting
Music
Watts, John (Songwriter) Search on You Tube
Meier, Paulette, (2001) Come Join the Circle: Lesson Songs for Peacemaking. LessonSongs music.
There are other Quaker videos on You Tube and Vimeo.