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From: Charles Bayless <charles.bayless_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 14:02:42 -0400
My alma mater's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies has a useful list of reasonably contemporary children's books dealing with Islam and the Arab world. Source: I can't get a URL address but if you google "Selected Resources on the Middle East and Islam Compiled by the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University" it will be the first item returned.
Elementary School Picture Books
1001 Inventions & Awesome Facts From Muslim Civilization. Washington, DC: National Geographic Kids, 2012.
Addasi, Maha. Time to Pray. Trans. Nuha Albitar. Illus. Ned Gannon. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press, Inc., 2010.
Alalou, Elizabeth and Ali Alalou. The Butter Man. Illus. Julie Klear Essakalli. Charlesbridge Publishing, 2003.
Boueri, Marijean, Jill Boutros, and Joanne Sayad. Lebanon A to Z: A Middle Eastern Mosaic. New Hampshire: Publishing Works, Inc., 2006.
Demi. Muhammad. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Signapore: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2003.
Douglass, Susan L. Illus. Jeni Reeves. Ramadan. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, Inc., 2004.
El-Moslimany, Ann P. Zaki's Ramadhan Fast. Illus. Erica l. Butler. Seattle: Amica Publishing House, 1994.
Heide, Florence Parry. The Day of Ahmed's Secret. Illus. Ted Lewin. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1990.
Heide, Florence Parry and Judith Heide Gilliland. The House of Wisdom. Illus. Mary Grandpre. DK Ink, 1999.
Henderson, Kathy. Lugalbanda: The Boy Who Got Caught Up In a War. Illus. Jane Ray. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2006.
Johnson-Davies, Denys. Goha the Wise Fool. New York: Penguin Group (USA), 2005.
Kessler, Christina. My Great-Grandmother's Gourd. Illus. Walter Lyon Krudop. New York: Orchard Books, 2000.
Nye, Naomi Shihab. Sitti's Secrets. New York: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1997.
Roth, Susan L. and Karen Leggett Abouraya. Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt's Treasured Books. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 2012.
Rumford, James. Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad. New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2008.
Rumford, James. Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001.
Shulevitz, Uri. The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2005.
Zeman, Ludmila. Gilgamesh the King. Tundra Books, 1998.
Zeman, Ludmila. The Last Quest of Gilgamesh. Tundra Books, 1998.
Zeman, Ludmila. The Revenge of Ishtar. Tundra Books, 1998.
Middle School Youth Literature
Barakat, Ibtisam. Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007.
Bushnaq, Inea, trans. and ed. Arab Folktales. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986.
Ellabbad, Mohieddin. The Illustrator's Notebook. Toronto: Groundwood Books, 2006.
Macaulay, David. Mosque. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003.
Marston, Elsa. Santa Claus in Baghdad and Other Stories About Teens in the Arab World. Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2008.
Nye, Naomi Shihab. Habibi.New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
High School/Adult Literature
Ashour, Radwa. Granada. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2003.
Bushnaq, Inea, trans. and ed. Arab Folktales. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986.
Choukri, Mohamed. For Bread Alone. London: Telegram Books, 2006.
Chraibi, Driss. Trans. Hugh Harter. Mother Comes of Age. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999.
Djebar, Assia. Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade. New York: Quartet, 1989.
Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock. Guests of the Sheik: an ethnography of an Iraqi village. New York: Doubleday, 1989.
Han, Carolyn. From the Land of Sheba: Yemeni Folk Tales. Brooklyn, NY: Interlink Books, 2005.
Jayyusi, Salma Khadra. Modern Arabic Fiction: An Anthology. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
Kanafani, Ghassan. Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories. Trans. Hilary Kilpatrick. Lynne Rienner, 1999. ISBN: 0894108573.
Mafouz, Naguib. Midaq Alley. Anchor Press, 1991.
Munif, Abdelrahman. Cities of Salt. New York: Knopf Publishing Group, 1989.
Munif, Abdelrahman. Endings. New York: Interlink Books, 2007.
Pamuk, Orhan. Snow. New York: Vintage Press, 2005.
Salih, Tayeb. Season of Migration to the North. Boulder, Co: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1980.
Salih, Tayeb. Trans. Denys Johnson- Davies. The Wedding of Zein. New York: New York Review Books, 2010.
Charles
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Received on Wed 20 Aug 2014 01:03:30 PM CDT
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 14:02:42 -0400
My alma mater's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies has a useful list of reasonably contemporary children's books dealing with Islam and the Arab world. Source: I can't get a URL address but if you google "Selected Resources on the Middle East and Islam Compiled by the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University" it will be the first item returned.
Elementary School Picture Books
1001 Inventions & Awesome Facts From Muslim Civilization. Washington, DC: National Geographic Kids, 2012.
Addasi, Maha. Time to Pray. Trans. Nuha Albitar. Illus. Ned Gannon. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press, Inc., 2010.
Alalou, Elizabeth and Ali Alalou. The Butter Man. Illus. Julie Klear Essakalli. Charlesbridge Publishing, 2003.
Boueri, Marijean, Jill Boutros, and Joanne Sayad. Lebanon A to Z: A Middle Eastern Mosaic. New Hampshire: Publishing Works, Inc., 2006.
Demi. Muhammad. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Signapore: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2003.
Douglass, Susan L. Illus. Jeni Reeves. Ramadan. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, Inc., 2004.
El-Moslimany, Ann P. Zaki's Ramadhan Fast. Illus. Erica l. Butler. Seattle: Amica Publishing House, 1994.
Heide, Florence Parry. The Day of Ahmed's Secret. Illus. Ted Lewin. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1990.
Heide, Florence Parry and Judith Heide Gilliland. The House of Wisdom. Illus. Mary Grandpre. DK Ink, 1999.
Henderson, Kathy. Lugalbanda: The Boy Who Got Caught Up In a War. Illus. Jane Ray. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 2006.
Johnson-Davies, Denys. Goha the Wise Fool. New York: Penguin Group (USA), 2005.
Kessler, Christina. My Great-Grandmother's Gourd. Illus. Walter Lyon Krudop. New York: Orchard Books, 2000.
Nye, Naomi Shihab. Sitti's Secrets. New York: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1997.
Roth, Susan L. and Karen Leggett Abouraya. Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt's Treasured Books. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 2012.
Rumford, James. Silent Music: A Story of Baghdad. New York: Roaring Brook Press, 2008.
Rumford, James. Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001.
Shulevitz, Uri. The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2005.
Zeman, Ludmila. Gilgamesh the King. Tundra Books, 1998.
Zeman, Ludmila. The Last Quest of Gilgamesh. Tundra Books, 1998.
Zeman, Ludmila. The Revenge of Ishtar. Tundra Books, 1998.
Middle School Youth Literature
Barakat, Ibtisam. Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007.
Bushnaq, Inea, trans. and ed. Arab Folktales. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986.
Ellabbad, Mohieddin. The Illustrator's Notebook. Toronto: Groundwood Books, 2006.
Macaulay, David. Mosque. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003.
Marston, Elsa. Santa Claus in Baghdad and Other Stories About Teens in the Arab World. Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2008.
Nye, Naomi Shihab. Habibi.New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
High School/Adult Literature
Ashour, Radwa. Granada. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2003.
Bushnaq, Inea, trans. and ed. Arab Folktales. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986.
Choukri, Mohamed. For Bread Alone. London: Telegram Books, 2006.
Chraibi, Driss. Trans. Hugh Harter. Mother Comes of Age. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999.
Djebar, Assia. Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade. New York: Quartet, 1989.
Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock. Guests of the Sheik: an ethnography of an Iraqi village. New York: Doubleday, 1989.
Han, Carolyn. From the Land of Sheba: Yemeni Folk Tales. Brooklyn, NY: Interlink Books, 2005.
Jayyusi, Salma Khadra. Modern Arabic Fiction: An Anthology. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.
Kanafani, Ghassan. Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories. Trans. Hilary Kilpatrick. Lynne Rienner, 1999. ISBN: 0894108573.
Mafouz, Naguib. Midaq Alley. Anchor Press, 1991.
Munif, Abdelrahman. Cities of Salt. New York: Knopf Publishing Group, 1989.
Munif, Abdelrahman. Endings. New York: Interlink Books, 2007.
Pamuk, Orhan. Snow. New York: Vintage Press, 2005.
Salih, Tayeb. Season of Migration to the North. Boulder, Co: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1980.
Salih, Tayeb. Trans. Denys Johnson- Davies. The Wedding of Zein. New York: New York Review Books, 2010.
Charles
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