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Polaris Children's Catalog

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One World - Many Stories

Booklists

You don’t have to go far to travel the world! Read a book from one of the seven continents of the world.

The following list of books from around the world isn’t meant to be all inclusive, but is just a sampling of the many interesting places there are to read about. If you are interested in reading a book about a certain region that isn’t listed please visit the Youth Services Reference Desk.

Africa / Antarctic and Arctic / Australia / Europe
Central & South America / North America /
One World One Book

Click on the call number to check book availability in the catalog for the Finger Lakes Library System.

Africa

Picture Books

  • Catch That Goat by Polly Alakija (E Alakija)
  • The 3 Little Dassies by Jan Brett (E Brett)
  • Jamela series by Niki Daly (E Daly)
  • I Lost My Tooth in Africa by Penda Diakite (E Diakite)
  • One Hen by Katie Smith Milway (E Milway)

Chapter Books

  • The Middle of Somewhere: a Story of South Africa by Sheila Gordon (J Gordon)
  • Akimbo series by Alexander McCall Smith (J McCall)
  • A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park (J Park)

African Folktales

  • Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears: a West African Tale by Verna Aardema (J 398 Aardema)
  • Anansi tales by Eric Kimmel (J 398 Kimmel)
  • Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: an African Tale by John Steptoe (J 398 Steptoe)

Antarctic and Arctic

Picture Books

  • Over in the Arctic by Marianne Collins Berkes (E Berkes)
  • The Last Polar Bear by Jean Craighead George (E George)
  • Mama Do You Love Me? by Barbara M. Joosse (E Joosse)
  • Ice Bear and Little Fox by Jonathan London (E London)
  • Hello, Arctic! by Theodore Taylor (E Taylor)

Chapter Books

  • The Antarctic Scoop by Lucy Jane Bledsoe (J Bledsoe)
  • Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater (J Atwater)
  • Eve of the Emperor Penguin by Mary Pope Osborne (J Osborne)
  • Ice Drift by Theodore Taylor (J Taylor)

Folktales

  • Kumak’s House: a Tale of the Far North by Michael Bania (J 398 Bania)
  • Arctic Adventures: Tales From the Lives of Inuit Artists by
    Raquel Rivera (J 398 Rivera)
  • A Small, Tall Tale From the Far, Far North by Peter Sis (J 398 Sis)

Australia

Picture Books

  • The Pumpkin Runner by Marsha Diane Arnold (E Arnold)
  • Ernie Dances to the Didgeridoo by Alison Lester (E Lester)
  • Outback Odyssey by Amanda Lumry (E Lumry)
  • Ready to Dream by Donna Jo Napoli (E Napoli)
  • Biggest Frog in Australia by Susan L. Roth (E Roth)

Chapter Books

  • Down and Out Down Under by Geronimo Stilton (J Geronimo)
  • Toad Rage by Morris Gleitzman (J Gleitzman)
  • Hazel Green by Odo Hirsch (J Hirsch)
  • Don’t Pat the Wombat by Elizabeth Honey (J Honey)

Australian Folktales

  • Legend of Moondyne Joe by Mark Greenwood (J Legend)
  • Stories from the Billabong by James Vance Marshall (J 398 Stories)
  • Sun Mother Wakes the World by Diane Wolkstein (J 398 Wolkstein)

Central and South America

Picture Books

  • Chavela and the Magic Bubble by Monica Brown (E Brown)
  • Dream Carver by Diana Cohn (E Cohn)
  • Saturday Sancocho by Leyla Torres (E Torres)

Chapter Books

  • Keeper by Kathi Appelt (J Appelt)
  • Doc Wilde and the frogs of doom by Tim Byrd (J Byrd)
  • Mystery of the Maya by R.A Montgomery (J Choose)

Central & South American Folktales

  • Llama and the Great Flood A Folktale from Peru by Ellen Alexander (J 398 Alexander)
  • Jabuti the tortoise: a trickster tale from the Amazon by Gerald Mcdermott (J 398 Mcdermott)
  • So Say Little Monkeys by Nancy Van Laan (J 398 VanLaan)

Europe

Picture Books

  • The Cat Who Walked Across France by Kate Banks E Banks
  • Dancing with Dziadziu by Susan Campbell Bartoletti E Bartoletti
  • Madeline in London by Ludwig Bemelmans E Bemelmans
  • I Have an Olive Tree by Eve Bunting E Bunting
  • Market Day by Eve Bunting and Holly Berry E Bunting
  • Olivia Goes to Venice by Ian Falconer E Falconer
  • Gabriella’s Song by Candace Fleming E Fleming
  • My Story About me by Mimi, or, Mimi’s Dada Catifesto by Shelley Jackson E Jackon
  • Don Quixote and the Windmills by Eric Kimmel E Kimmel
  • Martha by Gennady Spirin E Spirin

Folktales

  • East of the Sun, West of the Moon by Peter Christen Asbjornsen  
    J 398  Asbjornsen
  • The Valiant Red Rooster: A Story from Hungary by Eric Kimmel
    J 398 Kimmel

Juvenile Fiction

  • The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson J Ibbotson
  • Heidi: A Child’s Story of Life in the Alps by Johanna Spyri J Spyri

North America

Picture Books

  • Dream Carver by Diana Cohn (E Cohn)
  • The Ride: the Legend of Betsy Dowdy by Kitty Griffin (E Griffin)
  • Catie Copley's Great Escape by Deborah Kovacs (E Kovacs)
  • Where Are You, Bear?: a Canadian Alphabet Adventure by Frieda Wishinsky (E Wishinsky)

Chapter Books

  • Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis (J Curtis)
  • The Brooklyn Nine : a Novel in Nine Innings by Alan Gratz (J Gratz)
  • Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan (J Ryan)

North American Folktales

  • The First Strawberries : a Cherokee Story retold by Joseph Bruchac (J 398 Bruchac)
  • The Flying Canoe retold by Roch Carrier (J 398 Carrier)
  • The Polar Bear Son : an Inuit Tale retold by Lydia Dabcovich (J 398 Dabcovich)
  • Adelita: a Mexican Cinderella Story by Tomie dePaola (J 398 DePaola)

One World One Book

Picture Books

  • Mirror by Jeannie Baker (E Baker)
  • My Granny Went to Market: A Round the World Counting Rhyme by Stella Blackstone (E Blackstone)
  • Everybody Brings Noodles by Norah Dooley (E Dooley)
  • Around the World on Eighty Legs by Amy Gibson (E Gibson)
  • One World, One Day by Barbara Kerley (E Kerkey)
  • Animals Speak by Lila Prap (E Prap)
  • How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Marjorie Priceman (E Priceman)

Non-Fiction

  • My Librarian is a Camel: How Books are Brought to Children Around the World by Margriet Ruurs (J 027.4 Ruurs)
  • Children Around the World by Donata Montanari (J 305.23 Montanari)
  • My School in the Rain Forest: How Children Attend School Around the World by Margriet Ruurs (J 371 Ruurs)
  • Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions from Around the World by Selby Beeler (J 398 Beeler)
  • Wish: Wishing Traditions Around the World by Roseanne Thong
    (J 398 Thong)
  • Hello World! Greetings in 42 Languages Around the Globe by Manya Stojic (J 413. 1 Stojic)
  • Yum! Yuck!: A Foldout Book of People Sounds by Linda Sue Park (J 418 Park)
  • Around the World in Eighty Poems (J 808.81 Around)
  • This Same Sky: A Collection of Poems From Around the World (J 808.81 This)

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