Literature for Middle School Readers
Posted on December 05, 2016
Update 12/12/16: Aisha's Facebook page has changed to Reading Books From Every Country.
Celebrating the Season with International Ghost Stories
Posted on October 25, 2016
Halloween, the Day of the Dead, All Souls Day—many cultures are approaching the time of the year to consider the spirits of the departed.
Connecting with Classrooms Around the World: Resources for Virtual Exchanges, Part II (updated)
Posted on September 20, 2016
Are you and your students interested in meeting students and educators from other parts of the globe? Or would you like to read the international literature from WWB Campus along with another (perhaps international) classroom?
10 International Stories in the First Person: True, fictional, graphic, and poetic
Posted on September 09, 2016
“The series of events unfolding in that year still remain vivid in my memory,” writes Wang Dan, former student leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprisings, in his book, Prison Memoirs. The same sentiment shines through in other stories told in the first person, whether or not they describe an equally infamous event.
Chapatas and McDonald’s: International Writing about Food
Posted on August 02, 2016
Every once in a while, an educator will write to us requesting suggestions for literature around a particular topic or theme. We made the list below in response to one of those requests, from a professor interested in the literature of food. To our surprise, we found that food-related literature is a much broader genre than we had ever imagined, encompassing a prisoner’s memoir, a ghost story, and more: