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From: Steward, Celeste <csteward>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 11:27:16 -0700
Oh, since we are in that corner of the world...I'll make a plug for Susan Fletcher's "Alphabet of Dreams"--a mystical and literal journey about 14-year-old Mitra, of royal Persian lineage, and her five-year-old brother Babak, whose dreams foretell the future, flee for their lives in the company of the magus Melchoir and two other Zoroastrian priests, traveling through Persia as they follow star signs leading to a newly-born king in Bethlehem.
Celeste Steward, Collection Development Librarian Alameda County Library 2450 Stevenson Blvd. Fremont, CA 94538
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[mailto:ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu] On Behalf Of Elliott BatTzedek Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 11:03 AM To: Susan Bickley; CCBC Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Traveling
Oh, yes, I second Susan's choice! This is an astounding book, will beautiful illustrations and facts sprinkled as part of the artwork. It also shows us a slice of Muslim culture and history, which this country desperately needs to fight the astounding ignorance about Islam. And it is still in print, in hardback and paperback.
Two nice books to pair with it:
Historical: Travels of Benjamin of Tudela, The: Through Three Continents in the Twelfth Century by Uri Shulevitz. A similar tale, based on actual travel diaries, but of a Jewish man from Spain.
Contemporary Realistic Fiction: Sitti's Secrets, by Naomi Shihab Nye, about the journey of a Palestinian American girl to visit her grandmother in contemporary Palestine.
Elliott batTzedek Curriculum and Collections Development Children's Literacy Initiative
-----Original Message----- From: Susan Bickley [mailto:sbickley40 at charter.net] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 1:48 PM To: CCBC Subject: [CCBC-Net] Traveling
My favorite journey book is Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354 told and illustrated by James Rumford. It is a unique account of this 14th century traveler's journey from Morocco to China, from the steppes of Russia to the shores of Tanzania. It is an amazing combination of words, pictures, maps, an account of a man's journey.
What I like especially are the very wise nuggets dropped into the text of why we travel.
:"Traveling," I said to myself later. "It makes you lonely, then gives you a friend."
"Traveling- it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller." Houghton Mifflin, 2001
I hope it is still in print.
Susan Bickley Madison, Wisconsin
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Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 11:27:16 -0700
Oh, since we are in that corner of the world...I'll make a plug for Susan Fletcher's "Alphabet of Dreams"--a mystical and literal journey about 14-year-old Mitra, of royal Persian lineage, and her five-year-old brother Babak, whose dreams foretell the future, flee for their lives in the company of the magus Melchoir and two other Zoroastrian priests, traveling through Persia as they follow star signs leading to a newly-born king in Bethlehem.
Celeste Steward, Collection Development Librarian Alameda County Library 2450 Stevenson Blvd. Fremont, CA 94538
-----Original Message----- From: ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
[mailto:ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu] On Behalf Of Elliott BatTzedek Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 11:03 AM To: Susan Bickley; CCBC Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Traveling
Oh, yes, I second Susan's choice! This is an astounding book, will beautiful illustrations and facts sprinkled as part of the artwork. It also shows us a slice of Muslim culture and history, which this country desperately needs to fight the astounding ignorance about Islam. And it is still in print, in hardback and paperback.
Two nice books to pair with it:
Historical: Travels of Benjamin of Tudela, The: Through Three Continents in the Twelfth Century by Uri Shulevitz. A similar tale, based on actual travel diaries, but of a Jewish man from Spain.
Contemporary Realistic Fiction: Sitti's Secrets, by Naomi Shihab Nye, about the journey of a Palestinian American girl to visit her grandmother in contemporary Palestine.
Elliott batTzedek Curriculum and Collections Development Children's Literacy Initiative
-----Original Message----- From: Susan Bickley [mailto:sbickley40 at charter.net] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 1:48 PM To: CCBC Subject: [CCBC-Net] Traveling
My favorite journey book is Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354 told and illustrated by James Rumford. It is a unique account of this 14th century traveler's journey from Morocco to China, from the steppes of Russia to the shores of Tanzania. It is an amazing combination of words, pictures, maps, an account of a man's journey.
What I like especially are the very wise nuggets dropped into the text of why we travel.
:"Traveling," I said to myself later. "It makes you lonely, then gives you a friend."
"Traveling- it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller." Houghton Mifflin, 2001
I hope it is still in print.
Susan Bickley Madison, Wisconsin
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