Refugee students may come to schools with fragmented educational histories and other exile-related stressors, but many also settle fast, enjoy school and live rather ordinary childhoods. These more positive stories are not told because they get overridden by well-meaning but counterproductive stories of victimhood. This article presents a…

A new project called Bookbite, which was launched in February 2010 by the national reading charity Booktrust, aims to encourage people over 60 to engage more with reading and writing for pleasure, and provides a range of web and paper-based resources to get them started. In this article, the author accounts his visit to the project and how he met…

With the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, and the most troops overseas since Richard Nixon's presidency, President-elect Barack Obama will certainly have his work cut out for him. But at least Obama is a reader (and a writer), and there is no better antidote to the stress of the present than an hour or so lost in a good book.…

Lists and annotates children's books that present Polish folklore and legends, biographies of famous Polish people, personal accounts of life in Poland, and stories about Polish Americans and people living in Poland. (ET)

This an annotated bibliography of children's books (fiction, picture books, general information, biographies, and folktales) about Brazil also describes three related classroom activities. (DGM)

Presents a selective bibliography of publications about Black women that have appeared since 1975, with the emphasis on women in the United States. Lists titles under these headings: biography, culture, diaspora, economic issues, history, literary history and criticism, literature, psychology and mental health, reference, social conditions, and…

Recordings are not a new educational "gadget" to high-school language arts teachers. For more than a score of years some teachers have been using a few recordings of literature with varying degrees of success. Today, the extensive range of recordings available, the professional quality of the performances, and the fidelity of the…

The nature, uniqueness, and value of testimonials in English-as-a-Second-Language courses are described. Oral narratives, collected from people from developing countries who cannot write, are edited and translated by a recorder/collector. Examples are cited and their use in the classroom is reported. (Contains 12 references.) (LB)

This book provides current coverage of the present state of libraries and publishing in the United States and abroad. It has almost 1,000 entries and is divided into two sections. The first section is an alphabetical listing of countries from around the world. Each entry provides data about the political and economic condition of the country,…