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Email: chloeabbott@educationchoicesmagazine.com ‘The year end brings no greater pleasure than the opportunity to express your season’s “If wegreeting are to reach realwishes. peaceMay in the and good yourworld, holiday and have New Year be filled with joy!’ we shall to begin with the children.”
Charles Dickens ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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Christmas StockingBooks Fillers about PEACE Multicultural Children’s 1. Can YouHow Say The Peace? Grinch Stole Christmas - Dr. Seuss by Karen Katz Grinch hates This bookThe takes readers Christmas on a journey around and all things the globe festive. to meetConsequently, he hatches plot to steal differentachildren and it, but does this go to plan? learn about the many different ways to say peace. The Snow Dragon Elphinstone and 2. Peace is Abi an Offering Woodcock by AnnetteFiona LeBox Griselda Bone’s Peace is anIn Offering gloomy orphanage, is a warm, comforting daydreaming is banned, skipping is poem about finding forbidden and Christmas is well and peace in a community truly cancelled! of neighbours. But for Phoebe and her sausage dog, Herb, is it possible that magic awaits 3. The Peace Rosein the swirling, snow-filled air? by Alicia Jewell The Peace Rose The Night Before encourages Christmas – independent and Clement C. Moore peaceful conflict ‘Twas the night before resolution in the Christmas and all through the classroom, at home, or house not a creature was stirring, anywhere else. not even a mouse. On the night before Christmas, a father catches 4. Wangari’s Trees of an unexpected glimpse of St. Peace: A True Story Nicholas himself. Along with his from Africa eight reindeer, Santa is here to fill by Jeanette Winter the family’s stockings with toys. When Wangari returns home from studying in the US, she is shocked
to see whole forests being–cut The Snowman Briggs down. She Raymond starts planting trees A wordless A and soon inspires greatstory. change. little boy rushes out into the wintry day 5. The Peace Stick to build a snowman, by Nidhi Misra which comesStick aliveisin his dreams The Peace that night. book, a beautiful inspired by the Letters From Father native American Christmas – J.R.R. legend of The Talking Tolkien Stick. Every December, an envelope bearing a 6. Peace stamp from North Pole by Wendy the Anderson would arrive for J.R.R. Tolkien’s Halperin children. Inside would be a letter “For there to be inpeace strange handwriting in spidery the world, and a beautiful there must becoloured peace drawing orinsome sketches. nations”. Based on the Tao Te Ching, this lyrical Jim’s Spectacular picture book ponders the Christmas Emma eternal question: How–can we Thompson & Axel bring peace to the world? Scheffler Emma Thompson 7. Malala: Activist magically weaves the real-life for Girls’ Education tale of Jim - beloved dog of Sir by Raphaele Frier Henry Cole, who created the Beautifully first Christmas card - with a illustrated Malala: fantastically warm and heartfelt Activist for Girls’ Christmas romp! Education is the latest picture book about the brave girl from Pakistan.
Malala Yousafzai up to 100 Best stood Christmas Poems Children – the Taliban andFor fought for the McGough right forRoger all girls to receive an From verses education. Attraditional age 18, Malala Christina Rossetti becameby the youngest personand William Blake tothe modern to be awarded Nobelclassics by JuliaPrize Donaldson Benjamin Peace for herand work. Zephaniah, this is a heart-warming Christmas 8. Puttinganthology. Peace First: Commitments to Lion, The Witch ChangeThe the World and the Wardrobe – by Eric David Dawson C.S. Lewis Using the inspiring Hidden beyond a stories of real life cupboard, frozen in peacemakers, eternal winter, Narnia Putting Peace First is a land of snow anddifferent pine forests, andof its highlights aspects creatures are enslaved by the peacemaking, from ‘Opening terrible White - will Aslan Your Heart’ toWitch ‘Taking a Stand’. (the lion) save them? With clear, step-by-step explanations of how each A Christmas Carol peacemaker achieved their– Charles Dickens goals, this book is the perfect This traditional Christmas guide for aspiring young tale tells the story of a peacemakers. bitter old miser named Ebenezer the is EducationScrooge Choicesand Magazine visitations by the ghost his deeply saddened by theof crisis former business partner Jacob in the Ukraine and we send our Marley, as and wellprayers as the ghosts of thoughts to all those Christmases Past, Present and Yet affected. to Come.
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