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What’s New

The Global Fund for Children’s latest title, Ser Vecinos, is now available in both hardcover and paperback! Be the first to treat a young reader in your life to a gift of wonder and discovery with this beautiful book.

Going to School in India has been selected as an Outstanding International Book for 2006 by the United States Board on Books for Young People and the Children’s Book Council. It has also been selected as a Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People (2006) by the National Council for the Social Studies and the Children’s Book Council.

Press Releases [pdf]

Animal Friends
Children from Australia to Zimbabwe
Children of Native America Today
Come Out and Play
Extraordinary Girls
Going to School in India
A Kid’s Best Friend
Let the Games Begin
To Be a Kid/Ser Niño
To Be an Artist

Book Reviews and Awards

Animal Friends
Back to School
Be My Neighbor
Children from Australia to Zimbabwe
Children of Native America Today
Come Out and Play
Extraordinary Girls
Going to School in India
A Kid’s Best Friend
Let the Games Begin
My Family
Ser Niño
To Be a Kid
To Be an Artist

Interviews

“Talking with Maya Ajmera” in Book Links [pdf]
Permission to reprint "Talking with Maya Ajmera" by Anne Davies (vol. 15, no.3, January 2006) granted by Book Links: Connecting Books, Libraries, and Classrooms, published by the American Library Association.

National Public Radio (NPR) interview about Children from Australia to Zimbabwe
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Reading by Dr. John Hope Franklin from Xanadu: The Imaginary Place

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