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Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 1979

American Heritage

An album of the Great Depression
As I saw it : women who lived the American adventure
The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Better than a princess
The diary of the Strawbridge place
Giants for justice: Bethune, Randolph and King
Journey home
Journey home
Land of the iron dragon
Little Arliss
The no-return trail
Runaway to freedom : a story of the Underground Railway
The shop on High Street
To stand against the wind
Wagon wheels

Biography and Autobiography

Benjamin Banneker, genius of early America
Dr. Beaumont and the man with the hole in his stomach
Escape to freedom : a play about young Frederick Douglass
Full circle: rounding out a life
Mother Jones: the most dangerous woman in America
Pilot for Spaceship Earth : R. Buckminster Fuller, architect, inventor, and poet
Self-portrait: Margot Zemach
The white Kikuyu, Louis S.B. Leakey
Woman against slavery: the story of Harriet Beecher Stowe

Contemporary Concerns

Death pentalty: the case of life vs. death in the United States
Grandpa and me
In defense of animals
It's too late for sorry
Kids on the run : the stories of seven teen-age runaways
Little deer of the Florida Keys
A matter of money: what do you do with a dollar
Overkill: weapons of the nuclear age
Tree boy
Welcome home, Jellybean
The wild horse gatherers

World History

Beyond dreamtime : the life and lore of the Aboriginal Australian
Children of the fox
The devil in Vienna
An Edwardian Christmas
A mighty ferment
The mummy of Ramose : the life and death of an ancient Egyptian nobleman
Next year in Jerusalem: a short history of Zionism
North of danger
Searching for Shona
Three wanderers from Wapping

Language, Arts, and Crafts

The art of the Southeastern Indians
The art of the Vikings
The mystery of masks
Pete's house
State flowers
Sumer is icumen in: our ever-changing language
Symbols and their meaning

Legends, Traditions, and Religions

Arion and the dolphins : based on an ancient Greek legend
Deborah the dybbuk: ghost story
Fox Mykyta
Hanukah money
Ji-nongo-nongo means riddles
Little Owl: an eightfold Buddhist admonition
On the little hearth
The ostrich girl
Passover
The terrible Nung Gwama: a Chinese folktale
The wicked tricks of Tyl Uilenspiegel

Native Americans

Brothers of the wolves
Conquista!
The girl who loved wild horses
The girl who married a ghost and other tales from The North American Indian
Groundhog's horse
Legend of Sacrface: a Blackfeet Indian tale
Many smokes, many moons
Native American testimony : an anthology of Indian and White relations ; first encounter to dispossession
Spider in the sky
Squaw Man's son
Sun horse, moon horse
Talking bones: secrets of Indian burial mounds
The war party

Other Places and Cultures Today

The Bedouin
Bienvenue chez nous: Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Québec = Welcome to our town: Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Québec
In Bikole : eight modern stories about life in a West African village
Francisco
Magic and the night river
On the ice in Antarctica
The people of new China
The shadow on the hills

Understanding Oneself and Others

Adam Smith goes to school
The bakery factory
Brothers are all the same
Dear Greta Garbo
The Ennead
I can do it by myself
The liberation of Samantha Carson
Old tiger, new tiger
The physician's associate: a new carrer in health care
Robbers, bones and mean dogs
Run of the Sea Witch
Someone new
A special trade
Tune in yesterday
The wind is not a river

Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 1978

American Heritage

Black people who made the Old West
Can't you make them behave, King George?
Harriet and the runaway book: the story of Harriet Beeecher Stowe
The house on Stink Alley : a story about the Pilgrims in Holland
Hunter's stew and hangtown fry : what pioneer America ate and why
Laughing
The life and death of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lost treasures of America: searching out hidden treasures
A namesake for Nathan : being an account of Captain Nathan Hale by his twelve-year-old sister, Joanna
The obstinate land
Phoebe the spy
The shad are running
Tales of the elders : a memory book of men and women who came to America as immigrants, 1900-1930
Whaleboat raid
When Windwagon Smith came to Westport

Arts and Festivals

Arts of clay
Castle
Castle
Full color edition
Duke : the musical life of Duke Ellington
Edward S. Curtis: photographer of the North American Indian
Flower, moon, snow : a book of haiku
The frogs who wanted a king and other songs from La Fontaine
On the frontier with Mr. Audubon
Photographing history: the career of Mathew Brady
A time to keep: the Tasha Tudor book of holidays
Tornado! Poems

Contemporary Concerns

Breaking the sex-role barrier
The changing city
The changing countryside
The farm book
Gay: what you should know about homosexuality
Hunger on planet Earth
Loss and how to cope with it
When people die
Meditation for young people
My brother Steven is retarded
My name is Davy I'm an alcoholic
Sally can't see
Claire and Emma
Superspies: the secret side of the government

Cultures of the World

Behind the sealed door: the discovery of the tomb and treasures of Tutankhamun
Eskimos
Gypsies
Jovem Portugal: after the revolution
Letters from Italy
Michael of Wales
An oba of Benin

Family Life

Aaron's door
Call me Danica
Daddy
The devil hole
Don't hurt Laurie!
Foster child
Keep stompin' till the music stops
Mama
Oma
The pinballs
Refugee
The whistling teakettle and other stories about Hannah

Native Americans

Alice Yazzie's year
Anpao : an American Indian odyssey
Bear's heart
Indians of the Pacific Northwest
Settlers and strangers
Sports and games the Indians gave us
Spotted Flower and the ponokomita

Pluralistic Cultures in Our Society

An album of Chinese Americans
Benny
Daniel Inouye
Hell's Kitchen
In Nueva York
Trial Valley
With my face to the rising sun

Professions and Careers

Bill Pickett: first Black rodeo star
Darwin and the enchanted isles
Emergency
Hotel and motel careers
The mysteries of Troy
On the way up
The way we lived: a photographic record of work in vanished America

Traditional Tales and Legends

The days when the animals talked: black folk tales and how they came to be
The donkey prince
The flying horses: tales from China
Grimms' tales for young and old
Half a kingdom : an Icelandic folktale
Hamdaani: a traditional tale from Zanzibar
How Djadja-em-ankh saved the day : a tale from Ancient Egypt
The hundredth dove and other tales
A January fog will freeze a hog, and other weather folklore
The perfect peach
The Red Lion : a tale of ancient Persia
The seeing stick

Contemporary Tales

Chasing the goblins away
Edgemont
The grouchy ladybug
The Grouchy ladybug
Big Book
Grouchy Uncle Otto
I been there
Miss Nelson is missing!
La señorita Nelson ha desparecido!
Spanish translation
Pig and the blue flag

Understanding Oneself and Others

The cage
The curse of the Moonraker : a tale of survival
Doug meets the Nutcracker
Four miles to Pinecone
The foxman
Frozen fire : a tale of courage
I met a traveller
Konrad
Listen for the singing
Sadako and the thousand paper cranes
Oliver Hyde's dishcloth concert
A summer to die
A summer to die
Tramp

Women

Carlota
Carry Nation
I want to be a fisherman
Maria Mitchell: first lady of American astronomy
A mind of her own: a life of the writer George Sand
Women at their work

Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 1977

American Heritage

America is not all traffic lights: poems of the Midwest
Black heroes of the American Revolution
Captain John Smith
Colonial Connecticut
Courage to adventure
The dark eagle: the story of Benedict Arnold
Freelon Starbird
The golden venture
Ink, Ark., and all that: how American places got their names
I want to know about the United States Senate
Jocko: a legend of the American Revolution
Medicine show : conning people and making them like it
New England village: everyday life in 1810
Nine Black American doctors
November's wheel
The porcelain pagoda
Runaway balloon: the last flight of Confederate Air Force One
Siege! the story of St. Augustine in 1702
The story of the Boston Massacre
Summer of the burning
Taken by the Indians
Violins and shovels: the WPA arts projects
What's the big idea, Ben Franklin?
Willie Jasper's golden eagle : being an eyewitness account of the great steamboat race between the Natchez and the Robert E. Lee
Will you sign here, John Hancock?
Zenas and the shaving mill

Arts, Sports, and Crafts

Arts of wood
The colonial cookbook
Frozen snakes and dinosaur bones
The goat in the rug
How to make Possum's honey bread
The magic makers: magic and the men who make it
The Pantheon story of America art for young people
The picture story of Walt Frazier
Scott Joplin and the ragtime years
The story of folk music
23 varieties of ethnic art and how to make each one
What's in a map

Contemporary Concerns

Bombed, buzzed, smashed, or...sober: a book about alcohol
Eliza's daddy
Learning to say good-by : when a parent dies
Life with working parents
Me and Mr. Stenner
One more flight
Two special cards

Customs and Festivals

The Chinese New Year
Houses for the dead: burial customs through the ages
Merry ever afer: the story of two medieval weddings
Olympic Games in ancient Greece

Folklore and Tall Tales

Mr. Yowder and the lion roar capsules
The rabbi and the twenty-nine witches
The rat, the ox, and the zodiac: a Chinese legend
Wiley and the hairy man

People and Nature

Catch the wind: a book of windmills and windpower
A child's book of seasons
The deer in the pasture
The environment
Milkweed days
Quincy's harvest
Soybeans: the wonder beans
What ever happened to the Baxter place?
Wind, sand, and sky
Wonders of the desert world

Native Americans

The art of the Woodland Indians
Mouse Woman and the vanished princesses
Navaho slave
Osceola: Seminole leader
The Sound of flutes and other Indian legends

People and Places

The encyclopedia of Africa
Eskimos of the world
Historical catastrophes: fires
Looking at Nigeria
Luis Muñoz Marín : the man who remade Puerto Rico
Magic horns
Two sides of the river

Pluralistic Cultures in our Society

All it takes is practice
Amish people
Simple gifts: the story of the Shakers
The trouble they seen: Black people tell the story of the Reconstruction
Yagua days

Twentieth Century

The journey back
Never to forget : the Jews of the Holocaust
The survivor
When the sirens wailed

Understanding Oneself and Others

The accident
Arilla sun down
Connie's new eyes
The diary of Trilby Frost
Family
Grandmother Lucy goes on a picnic
Jaguar, my twin
The lemming condition
Max
Roll of thunder, hear my cry
Who do you think you are? Digging for your family roots

Women

Alone amid all this noise: a collection of women's poetry
By George, Bloomers!
Deborah Sampson, soldier of the Revolution
The Golda Meir story
Mahalia: gospel singer

Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 1976

American Heritage

Brave journey: launching of the United States
The Creoles of color of New Orleans
Founding mothers : women in America in the Revolutionary era
Holiday ring: festival stories and poems
John Marshall: judicial statesman
John Reed: witness to revolution
Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Jefferson
Monster, giants and little men from Mars: an unnatural history of the Americas
People's bicentennial commission Early American almanac
Picture the past: 1900-1915
The pirate hero of New Orleans
A prairie boy's summer
Roger Williams
Save weeping for the night
Slumps, grunts, and snickerdoodles : what Colonial America ate and why
A stamp collector's history of the United States
Touchmark
Turkeys, pilgrims, and Indian corn : the story of the Thanksgiving symbols
Whoppers : tall tales and other lies
The Wolfpen rusties: Appalachian riddles & gee-haw whimmy-diddles

Ancient and Medieval History

Album of prehistoric man
The Arab Marco Polo: Ibn Battuta
Beyond the mists
Going on a dig: a guide to archaeological fieldwork
Mary's monster
Pyramid
Roman hostage

Arts and Crafts

Act now! Plays and ways to make them
Colonial crafts for you to make
Eskimo crafts and their cultual backgrounds
The heritage sampler: a book of colonial arts and crafts
Judo: a gentle beginning
Mask-making with pantomime and stories from American history
Warm as wool, cool as cotton: natural fibers and fabrics and how to work with them

Communications

Bylines: profiles in investigative journalism
Deeper than speech: frontiers of language and communication
Sounds and signals: how we communicate
The travels of Magnus Pole

Contemporary Concerns

Alcohol and you
Alcohol, the delightful poison: a history
Alcoholism
City and suburb: exploring an ecosystem
The consumer movement
Kids and alcohol: the deadliest drug

Democratic Process

American freedom and the Bill of Rights
Guilty or not guilty? Tales of justice in early America
The kids' candidate
The right to be let alone: privacy in the United States
Warning! Your health is at stake

Pluralistic Cultures in Our Society

Across the sea from Galway
Arthur Mitchell
The Black man in America, 1932-1954
Dragonwings
El Bronx remembered : a novella and stories
Exploring Black America: a history and guide
Fighting Shirley Chisholm
George Washington Carver
The hundred penny box
The Man who bought himself : the story of Peter Still
The many faces of slavery
My daddy is a cool dude and other poems
Paul Robeson
The picture life of Malcolm X
The preacher's kid
Ralph Bunche, UN peacemaker
Rebellion at Christiana
Waiting for mama
Winter wheat
Year walk

Native Americans

The art of the Northwest Coast Indians
The art of the Plains Indians
The blazing hills
Choctaw boy
An Eskimo birthday
The eye in the forest
Four corners of the sky: poems, chants and oratory
Geronimo: the fighting Apache
The houses the Indians built
Indians of the Eastern Woodlands
Kivi speaks
Morning arrow
Raven-who-sets-things-right: Indian tales of the Northwest Coast
Sedna, an Eskimo myth
Tecumseh and the Indian Confereations: 1811-1813: the Indian nations east of the Mississippi are defeated
War with the Seminoles, 1835-1842: the Florida Indians fight for their freedom and homeland
The way of our people
White captives
The winter wife: an Abenaki folktale

Understanding Oneself and Others

The bird and the stars
The bridge
Dust of the earth
Howie helps himself
Josie's handful of quietness
Kelly's creek
Marinka, Katinka, and me (Susie)
Mia alone
Naomi
New life, new room
Nonna
A private matter
Time of hunting
Ultra-violet catastrophe! : Or, The unexpected walk with Great-Uncle Magnus Pringle
Unfriendly book
When the sad one comes to stay

Women

A pictorial history of women in America
A question of courage
Women today: ten profiles

World Areas

Ancient Japan and its influence in modern times
Camels and their cousins
Children of Hong Kong
How democracy failed
Jataka tales
Julius K. Nyerere: teacher of Africa
Kaleku
The land and people of Zambia
Letters to Horseface, being the story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's journey to Italy, 1769-1770, when he was a boy of fourteen
Lito the shoeshine boy
The magic cooking pot
Malaysia and Singapore
Salah of Sierra Leone
Sing to the dawn
Stonecutter: a Japanese folk tale
Soviet dissent: intellectuals, Jews and détente
The time of anger

World of Work

Dig, drill, dump, fill
Interpol: international crime fighter
My dentist
Police! a precinct at work
Survival in the world of work
What can she be? a police officer

Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 1975

American Heritage

And then what happened, Paul Revere?
Bold leaders of the American Revolution
Build your own early American village
Cabeza de Vaca, defender of the Indians
Cross your fingers, spit in your hat; superstitions and other beliefs
Cruise of the Arctic Star
The education of Abraham Lincoln
The fiery trial: a life of Lincoln
Getting to know the Ohio River
Give us liberty: the story of the Declaration of Independence
Grand Papa and Ellen Aroon : being an account of some of the happy times spent together by Thomas Jefferson and his favorite granddaughter
John Wesley Powell: conquest of the canyon
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806: the journey that opened the American Northwest
Me and Willie and Pa : the story of Abraham Lincoln and his son Tad
Newsmakers: the press and the presidents
The New World help promise: why England colonized North America
Poor Richard in France
A prairie boy's winter
This time, Tempe Wick?
Witchcraft in America

Ethnic Cultures in the United States

An album of the Irish Americans
An album of Puerto Ricans in the United States
All us come cross the water
America is also Irish
The Black man in America, 1877-1905
The Black man in America, 1905-1932
Cesar Chavez: man of courage
Don't ride the bus on Monday: the Rosa Parks story
James Weldon Johnson
Langston Hughes, American poet
Muhammad Ali
My black me: a beginning book of Black poetry
The newcomers: ten tales of American immigrants
The picture story of Hank Aaron
Puerto Rico: island of contrasts
Rice cakes and paper dragons
Roberto Clemente
Settling America: the ethnic expression of fourteen contemporary poets
Sherman: a Chinese-American child tells his story
We are Chicano
Yiddish stories old and new

Native Americans

Arrow to the sun; a Pueblo Indian tale
Note: this book is also part of the kit ”Native Americans”
Flecha al sol : un cuento de los indios Pueblo
Spanish edition
Ely S. Parker: spokesman for the Senecas
The games Indians played
How the sun made a promise and kept it: a Canadian Indian myth
Our fathers had powerful songs
Songs of the chippewa
Stiff ears: animal folktales of the North American Indian
The valley of the shadow
When Thunders spoke
Whirlwind is a ghost dancing

Women

American Indian women
Black women of valor
Make a joyful noise unto the Lord! The life of Mahalia Jackson, queen of the gospel singers
Ms. Africa: profiles of modern African women
A woman's place: an anthology of short stories
Women of the West

Understanding Oneself and Others

Benny the misfit
Bush walkabout
Child of fire
Ecidujerp, prejudice; either way it doesn't make sense
Meaning well
My dad lives in a downtown hotel
My grandson Lew
Nana Upstairs & Nana Downstairs
Rooftops and alleys: adventures with a city kid
The sensible book; the celebration of your 5 senses

Ecology and the Environment

The earth book
Frederick Law Olmsted: park designer
Just-in-time Joey
Lakes
The world beneath our feet: the story of soil

Law and Social Justice

Crisis in corrections: the prison problem
Juvenile justice
Laws and trials that created history
Leaders, laws and citizens: the story of democrary and government
Probabtion
Save the mustangs: how a federal law is passed

Contemporary Concerns

Communes through the ages: the search for Utopia
Drugs and man
The love bugs: a natural history of the V.D.'s
Medicine and health care in tomorrow's world
2010: Living in the future
V.D.: venereal disease and what you should do about it

World of Work

Big Joe's trailer truck
Ladder Company 108
What can she be?: a newscaster
What can she be?: an archtect
What can she be?: a lawyer
You can be a carpenter

Houses, Cities, and Towns

Building your own moon settlement
Central city/spread city; the metropolitan regions where more and more of us spend our lives
Cities in the march of civilization
Have you seen houses?
Housing in tomorrow's world
New towns: building cities from scratch
The ugly palacies: housing in America

Ancient and Medieval History

Builders on the desert
Living in a medieval village
Living in a castle
Living in a crusader land
Living in a medieval city
Toolmaker
The town of Hercules: a buried treasure trove
Wrapped for eternity

World Areas: Americas and Caribbean

American Virgin Islanders on St. Croix, St. John and St. Thomas
The day the hurricane happened
The enchanted orchard: and other folktales of Central America
Eskimo songs and stories
Kiviok's magic journey : an Eskimo legend
The land and people of Cuba
Latin American crafts and their cultural backgrounds
The men who made Mexico
Patagonia: windswept land of the South
Thor Heyerdahl and the reed boat Ra

World Areas: Africa - South of Sahara

Agatha Moudio's son
Behind the back of the mountain: Black folktales from Southern Africa
Black images: the art of West Africa
Mukasa
Nigeria
Nkrumah: a biography
Omoteji's baby brother
Sahara trail
Singing tales of Africa
Zaire: a week in Joseph's world

World Areas: Middle East and North Africa

The goats of Agadez
Joi Bangla! : the children of Bangladesh
Modern Egypt
The oil countries of the Middle East
Turkey: a week in Samil's world
The village that Allah forgot: a story of Tunisia

World Areas: Asia

Ancient India and its influence on modern times
The art of China
Chou En-lai
A cow for Jaya
Eastern religions
Japan: a week in Daisuke's world
Men from the village deep in the mountains and other Japanese folktales
Our world: the People's Republic of China
The Philippines: America's forgotten friends
The Polynesians knew
Revolutionary China: people, politics and ping-pong

World Areas: Europe

Dag Hammarskjöld: peacemaker for the U.N.
The Kremlin: citadel of history
Willy Brandt: a biography

Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 1974

No list was printed this year; books published in 1973 were included in the Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 1975 list.

Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 1973

United States Heritage

The adventures of Obadiah
The ballad of William Sycamore
Blow ye winds westerly : the seaports & sailing ships of old New England
Dandelion, pokeweed, and goosefoot: how the early settlers used plants for food, medicine and in the home
Danger downriver
The death of Evening Star : the diary of a young New England whaler
Dry victories
For ma and pa: on the Oregon Trail, 1884
Henry David Thoreau: writer and rebel
Individuals all: profiles of Americans who defied the establishment
The last stronghold: the story of the Modoc Indian War
Marcus Garvey
Mr. Lincoln's inaugural journey
No time for school, no time for play: the story of child labor in America
Richard M. Nixon
Racism in America
Rum, slaves and molasses: the story of New England's triangular trade
The secret of the Sachem's tree
Slater's mill
Struggle for freedom: the history of Black Americans
Underground man
Uneasy friendship: France and the United States
Westward by canal

Conflict, Dissent, and Change

Cry sabotage! True stories of 20th century saboteurs
The demagogues
The Easter Rising: Dublin
Freedom now! The story of abolitionists
The Luddites: machine-breakers of the early nineteenth century
The persuaders: propaganda in war and peace
The right to remain silent
The Sacco-Vanzetti case
We were hooked

Patterns of Culture

Babylon to Brasilia: the challenge of city planning
The city book
Death is a noun: a view of the end of life
Fishermen on George's Bank
Grandma didn't wave back
I know an astronaut
A month of Sundays
Mummies
Pictures, signs, and symbols
Someone always needs a policeman
Street smart
Superstition!
Teacup full of roses
Told under the city umbrella

Women

An album of women in American history
American women in sports
Beauty millionaire: the life of Helena Rubenstein
Felisa Rincón de Gautier: the mayor of San Juan
Girls can too! A book of poems
Feminine plural: stories by women about growing up
Israel's Golda Meir: pioneer to prime minister
Marian Anderson
Martha Berry
Young and female

Ethnic Cultures in the United States

American Indians today
The big push
Blacks in communications
Brave Eagle's account of the Fetterman fight, 21 December 1866
Changing of the guard: the new breed of Black politician
The Chinese in America
Contemporary American Indian leaders
Famous Mexican-Americans
The fire bringer, a Paiute legend
Go up the road
Graciela: a Mexican-American child tells her story
Great gittin' up morning: a biography of Denmark Vesey
Hello, Puerto Rico
High Elk's treasure
Hollering sun
Hoofprint on the wind
Horace Pippin: the artist as a Black American
Little man in the family
The migrant workers and Cesar Chavez
The picture life of Jesse Jackson
A piece of the power: four Black mayors
Puerto Rico: commonwealth, state, or nation?
Samurai of Gold HIll
The Sioux today
The Taos Indians and their sacred Blue Lake
Walk in the sky
When clay sings
When clay sings
Wizards and wampum: legends of the Iroquois

Ecology and the Environment

Enough: the revolt of the American consumer
The giant panda
The mystery of the Everglades
Natural resources: will we have enough for tomorrow's world?
S.O.S. Save our earth : an ecological message for everyone
The shrinking outdoors

International/Intercultural

Africa is thunder and wonder: contemporary voices from African literature
African views of the West
The awakening
Baba and Mr. Big
Boonmee and the lucky white elephants
Bullock carts and motorcycles: ancient India on a new road
Canada and the U.S.A.: a new background book about international conflict and the new nationalism
Children of Vietnam
Choogoowarra: Australian sheep station
Cross-fire: a Vietnam novel
The dance of Africa: an introduction
The dark ages
The gypsies
Heirs of the ancient Maya: a portrait of teh Lacandon Indians
Israel: land of the Jews
The land and people of Romania
The land and people of Tanzania
The lion and the lily
Looking at Germany
Mao Tse-tung
The Maude Reed tale
The meeting post: a story Lapland
Modern China: the story of a revolution
The moon is like a silver sickle: a celebration of poetry by Russian
My village in Portugal
Pleasures and palaces: the after-school activities of Russian children
Song of the quail, the wond; the wondrous world of the maya
The sound of boomerangs
The tribal people of Thailand
The treasure of Topo-el-Bampo
Vikings bold: their voyages and adventures

Of Interest to Teachers

Crafts and toys from around the world
Folk puppet plays for the social studies
How to make whirligigs and whimmy diddles and other American folkcraft objects
Under the mask: an anthology about prejudice in America
Yellow pages of learning resources; resources directory area code 800

Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 1972

The Family of Man

Clothes tell a story: from skin to space suits
Impact! Asian views of the West
The kinds of mankind: an introduction to race and racism
People are like lollipops
People in twilight: vanishing and changing cultures
Schools are where you find them
Third World voices for children
Young and Black in Africa

Cities and Nations

The land and people of the Congo
Dahomey
Indonesia
The mystery of Minoan civilization
The Philippines
The sand and the stars: the story of the Jewish people
Living in Singapore
The Sumerians; inventors and builders
Looking at Sweden
Sweden
Taiwan: the other China

Man and Nature

The air we breathe!
The water we drink!
Ecology: man's effects on his environment and its mechanisms
From footpaths to freeways: the story of roads
Getting to know the Suez Canal
How will we feed the hungry billions? Food for tomorrow's world
How will we meet the energy crisis? Power for tomorrow's world
How will we move all the people? Transportation for tomorrow's world
Look what I found
The Lorax
Polar deserts
The scroungers
Secret places
The seven seas
The story of corn
This is Antarctica

Man: His Arts and Humanities

African animals through African eyes
The art of the Old West
The art of the Southwest Indians
Confucius in life and legend
The disobedient eels and other Italian tales
From early American paintbrushes: colony to new nation
The god beneath the sea
Have you seen a comet?
In the trail of the wind; American Indian poems and ritual orations
Some gold, a little ivory: country tales from Ghana and the Ivory Coast
Tales from India
Tales of Mogho: African stories from Upper Volta
Tales our settlers told
The trees stand shining: poetry of the North American Indians
With these hands they built a nation: the story of colonial arts and crafts
Wolf run: a Caribou Eskimo tale

Conflict, Dissent and Change

The American Revolution
The Army-McCarthy hearings, April-June 1954
By bullet, bomb and dagger: the story of anarchism
The colonial conquest of Africa
Dissent in America
The draft riots, July 1863
The Dreyfus affair: a fight to prove the innocence of a French army office accused of treason, 1894-1906
The future of Che Guevara
The green tree of democracy
Ida Tarbell: first of the muckrakers
It is the poem singing into your eyes; anthology of new young poets
Ivan the Terrible
The limits of defiance: strikes, rights and government
Medieval warfare
The Mongomery Bus Boycott, December 1955: American Blacks demand an end to segregation
Our sexual revolution
Revolution in our time
Revolutionaries: agents for change
The rights of the people: the major decisions of the Warren Court
The rise of American political parties
The Russian revolution
Ten fighters for peace: an anthology
Toussaint: the Black liberator
You be the judge

Children and Families Around the World

As tall as a spear
Boy of Bolivia
Camera on Ghana: the world of a young fisherman
Camera on the Sahara: the world of three young nomads
Carlos Charles
Child of the Navajos
Children of India
Down the hill to the sea
The drums speak: the story of Kofi, a boy of West Africa
The first four years
The first four years
A fisherboy of Portugal
Gone and back
Hill of fire
I am from Puerto Rico
In search of the abominable snowman: a story from Nepal
Ketut, boy woodcarver of Bali
Me day
Miriam lives in a kibbutz
Moja means one; Swahili counting book
Note: this book is also part of the kit ”Africa : the land and people”
Mother India's children: meeting today's generation in India
The pair of shoes
Pulga
Salima lives in Kashmir
Six silver spoons
Sikkim: the hidden kingdom
Then again, maybe I won't
Tooni, the elephant boy
Train ride
Walk a rocky road
Wild in the world

United States Heritage

The album of the American cowboy
The American Civil War
America's reign of terror
Black fighting men in U.S. history
Black man in America, 1791-1861
Black roots: an anthology
Black voyage: eyewitness accounts of the Atlantic slave
The buffalo king: the story of Scotty Philip
The Cherokee Removal, 1838 : an entire Indian nation is forced out of its homeland
The early Indians: their natural and imaginary worlds
Famous American trails
The hidden contributors
Homesteaders and Indians
Hooray for peace, hurrah for war : the United States during World War I
I am a man: ode to Martin Luther King, Jr,
Ellis Island: the immigrant years
In chains to Louisiana: Solomon Northrup's story
Indians of the Southern Plains
Labor unions in the United States
The making of an Afro-American: Martin Robison Delany, 1812-1885
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Memoirs of a fugitive: Amrica's first anti-slavery novel
The new life/la vida nueva
Once upon the Little Big Horn
On the day Peter Stuyvesant sailed into town
The picture life of Thurgood Marshall
Radical of the Revolution: Samuel Adams
Reconstruction : the great experiment
A single standard
The shipbuilders
The slave who bought his freedom: Equiano's story
A time for courage: the study of the Declaration of Independence
The Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Two tickets to freedom
The Vicksburg veteran
Yankee communes: another American way