By Marian Wright Edelman
Illustrated by Barry Moser

Marian Wright Edelman has drawn from a variety of cultures and people to compile these timeless stories, poems, songs, quotations, and folktales that speak to all children, to let them know that they can make a difference in today's world.

By Liz Garton Scanlon
Illustrated by Marla Frazee

A Carle Museum "Top of the Shelf" Book.
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All the world is here. It is there. It is everywhere. All the world is right where you are. Now.

By Ashley Bryan

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Was Armed only with gloriously hued colored paper and his mother's embroidery scissors, renowned artist Ashley Bryan captures the mightiest whales and the most delicate blossoms, pearls of grapes and grins of children in this homage to Cecil F. Alexander's beloved hymn, which is performed by choirs around the world.

By Jeannie Baker

There are two boys and two families in this book. One family lives in a city in Australia, and one lives in Morocco, North Africa. The lives of the two boys and their families look very different from each other, and they are different. But some things connect them...just as some things are the same for all families no matter where they live. In English and Arabic.

By Allen Say

A Carle Museum "Top of the Shelf" Book.
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There was a story that Mama read to Jiro:
Once, in old Japan, a young woodcutter lived alone in a little cottage. One winter day he found a crane struggling in a snare and set it free. When Jiro looks out the window into Mr. Ozu's garden, he sees a crane and remembers that story. Much like the crane, the legend comes to life - and, suddenly, Jiro finds himself in a world woven between dream and reality. Which is which?

By Mordicai Gerstein

In a tiny village, high in the mountains of Tibet, lives a woodcutter. All his life he has longed to travel to faraway places, to see the world. But he grows old without ever leaving the mountain. When he dies, he is suddenly offered the chance to live another life, in any form he wants, anywhere in the galaxies. Carefully he decides...and finds himself in a place he never thought he would choose.