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Dead Bird (1965/2016) By Margaret Wise Brown, Peter Shea
Dead Bird (1965/2016) By Margaret Wise Brown, Peter Shea
Picture Books
Children come upon a bird that has just died. It is still warm. They bury it, sing a song they have made up, and plant flowers. They visit the grave every day to put fresh flowers on it and to sing to the bird, until they forget. Margaret Wise Brown’s The Dead Bird is a story about how a new ritual happens, spontaneously, out of a shared experience of grief, expressing a shared reverence for one kind of life. The children are thinking, in a way: they are keeping something in mind for a long time, in a beautiful form. …
Mis Dos Pueblos Fronterizos / My Two Border Towns (2021) By David Bowles, Amy Reed-Sandoval
Mis Dos Pueblos Fronterizos / My Two Border Towns (2021) By David Bowles, Amy Reed-Sandoval
Picture Books
When children talk about migration and displacement, they generally speak and inquire about people. Why are some people forced to leave their homes—or why was I forced to leave my home? Why won’t other countries let them in—or why won’t other countries let my family and me in? What does it feel like to live in a shelter, or in a refugee camp, or on a bridge between two countries—or why must my family live this way, while others do not? This picture book shows how philosophical questions about migration can be inspired by, and embedded in, communities and characters …
How War Changed Rondo (2021) By Romana Romanyshyn And Andriy Lesiv, Maughn Rollins Gregory
How War Changed Rondo (2021) By Romana Romanyshyn And Andriy Lesiv, Maughn Rollins Gregory
Picture Books
In this evocative picture book, ‘War’ is a proper name, referring not to an event but to a malevolent being, depicted as a gigantic, shape-shifting amalgamation of buildings, war machines, and a mechanical human arm from which emerge tanks with eyes and jagged mouths, mosquito-like helicopters, and other “terrible clinking and hissing machines.” Nor does War seem to have any goal or intention other than indiscriminate destruction. These images raise a number of important questions about the nature of large- and small-scale violence. Who-all is responsible? If war requires the participation of many people, how does that happen? Have you …
Story Boat (2020) By Kyo Maclear, Samantha Piede
Story Boat (2020) By Kyo Maclear, Samantha Piede
Picture Books
When the protagonist in Kyo Maclear’s Story Boat (2020) opens the book with “Here we are,” it is unclear to readers where exactly “here” might be. When safety must take precedence over familiarity, one develops a fleeting relationship with place. It is tempting, in stories like these, to emphasize the pain of the refugee experience: the uncertainty, the loss of one’s ‘heres’. But Maclear takes a different tack, giving readers the tools to focus on hope and wonder. Teachers may prompt students, in light of the book, to reflect on what they think a ‘home’ or a ‘here’ feels like …
Silan’S Box [Το Κουτί Του Σιλάν] (2017) By Άλκηστη Χαλικιά [Alkistis Chalikia], Maria Papathanasiou
Silan’S Box [Το Κουτί Του Σιλάν] (2017) By Άλκηστη Χαλικιά [Alkistis Chalikia], Maria Papathanasiou
Picture Books
Silan is an eight-year-old boy who was forced to leave his country and live in a new homeland, in Greece. He lives in a refugee center where he goes to a new school but does not speak the same language as the other children. He carries a little box with him—so precious that he keeps it with him constantly and does not share its contents with anyone. The children ask him every day about the contents of the box and try to guess what his hidden treasure might be. They think of what they would shield in their own box …
03. Getting Our Thoughts Together: Instructional Manual To Accompany 'Elfie', Second Edition, Matthew Lipman
03. Getting Our Thoughts Together: Instructional Manual To Accompany 'Elfie', Second Edition, Matthew Lipman
Early Elementary School Curriculum
The cognitive skills emphasized in Elfie – distinction-making and connection-making – are those on which all-subsequent reasoning rests. They are accompanied by the criteria that are appropriate to them: sameness and difference. Other operations like the making of comparisons, the discovery of uniformities, the identification of classes, the formation of concepts, and the formulation of definition, all depend upon the logical infrastructure of these two sets of skills and criteria. Elfie should therefore be seen as the base of the Philosophy for Children program.
20. Piksi (Slovenian Translation Of Pixie Novel), Matthew Lipman
20. Piksi (Slovenian Translation Of Pixie Novel), Matthew Lipman
Early Elementary School Curriculum
Piksi je osnovnošolka, ki je zmedena in navdušena nad številnimi vidiki svoje izkušnje. Ta roman poudarja odnose (logične, družbene, družinske, estetske, vzročne, del-celota, matematične itd.) kot tudi kompetenco pri obravnavanju takih odnosov. Etični koncepti vključujejo rivalstvo med sorojenci, osebnost, spoštovanje drugih, prijateljstvo, skrivnosti, držanje obljub, odnose med staršem in otrokom, poslušnost, draženje in avtonomijo.
Three Stories You Can Read To Your Cat (1997) By Sara Swan Miller, Gareth B. Matthews
Three Stories You Can Read To Your Cat (1997) By Sara Swan Miller, Gareth B. Matthews
Picture Books
When a cat's human friend leaves the house and tells it to be good, the cat does many things it considers good, like shredding the curtains, eating a house plant, and digging into the garbage. In this review, originally published in Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children 16(4), 2003, Gareth B. Matthews demonstrates that young children can understand and enjoy the irony of sarcasm. They also enjoy grappling with the story's philosophical irony: the problem of clarifying the difficult question of what makes an action good or bad.
Wild Boy (1998) By Mordicai Gerstein, Gareth B. Matthews
Wild Boy (1998) By Mordicai Gerstein, Gareth B. Matthews
Picture Books
Once there was a boy who lived alone, without a mother or father or any friends, in a forest in Southern France. He was naked. He didn’t even know what clothes were. He didn’t know he was a boy. He didn’t know what people were. He was wild. When a group of hunters discovered the boy, they delivered him to scientists in Paris, who eventually gave up trying to communicate with him. The boy was taken in by Dr. Itard and his housekeeper, Madame Guerin, who taught him to dress himself, to read and write simple words, and help around …
Lulu And The Flying Babies (1988) By Posy Simmonds, Gareth B. Matthews
Lulu And The Flying Babies (1988) By Posy Simmonds, Gareth B. Matthews
Picture Books
It was snowing by the time Lulu’s family arrived at the park, so her parents took them to the museum next door. Lulu sulked and protested: “Don’t want to see the pictures!” so her parents left her sitting on a couch. A winged cherub climbed down from a painting hanging above her and flew Lulu into the winter scene of a Flemish painting, then into other paintings where they splashed in the sea, growled at a tiger, rode a horse, and fell off a cliff. Artists, poets, and writers give us ways of escaping our world, but they also give …
Burglar Bill (1979) By Allan And Janet Ahlberg, Gareth B. Matthews
Burglar Bill (1979) By Allan And Janet Ahlberg, Gareth B. Matthews
Picture Books
Burglar Bill lives alone with a house full of stolen property. Every night after supper he goes off to work, stealing things. Every dawn he comes home with his sack full of stolen goods and sits down to his breakfast of stolen toast and marmalade and stolen coffee. Some of my favorite children’s stories are written in a style I call “philosophical whimsy.” In the story of Burglar Bill, the whimsy is aimed at encouraging us to think about the life of a full-time thief as if it were an almost boringly normal sort of middleclass life. The story invites …
Albert’S Impossible Toothache (1974) By Barbara Williams, Gareth B. Matthews
Albert’S Impossible Toothache (1974) By Barbara Williams, Gareth B. Matthews
Picture Books
Albert is a turtle, who complains that he has a toothache. Albert’s father is quite unsympathetic. “That’s impossible,” he says; “it is impossible for anyone in our family to have a toothache.” Though Albert’s father does point to his own toothless mouth (does he also point to its toothlessness?) to establish the impossibility of a turtle’s having a toothache, he never actually says to Albert, “To have a toothache you need to have a tooth and turtles don’t have teeth.”
04. Elfie, Book 1, 1st Edition (Novel), Matthew Lipman
04. Elfie, Book 1, 1st Edition (Novel), Matthew Lipman
Early Elementary School Curriculum
Elfie is in the first grade and is so shy she can’t speak in class and can hardly even formulate a question. Yet little escapes her and her mind puzzles over everything that happens in class and at home. When the principal proposes a contest aimed at improving reasoning, her whole class is caught up in figuring out how sentences work and how distinctions and connections are made. At the same time, Elfie and her classmates discover many distinctions fundamental to inquiry: appearance and reality, the one and the many, parts and wholes, similarity and difference, permanence and change.
06. Elfie, Book Two, 1st Edition (Novel), Matthew Lipman
06. Elfie, Book Two, 1st Edition (Novel), Matthew Lipman
Early Elementary School Curriculum
Elfie is in the first grade and is so shy she can’t speak in class and can hardly even formulate a question. Yet little escapes her and her mind puzzles over everything that happens in class and at home. When the principal proposes a contest aimed at improving reasoning, her whole class is caught up in figuring out how sentences work and how distinctions and connections are made. At the same time, Elfie and her classmates discover many distinctions fundamental to inquiry: appearance and reality, the one and the many, parts and wholes, similarity and difference, permanence and change.
07. Getting Our Thoughts Together: Instructional Manual To Accompany 'Elfie, Book Two', Matthew Lipman, Ann Gazzard
07. Getting Our Thoughts Together: Instructional Manual To Accompany 'Elfie, Book Two', Matthew Lipman, Ann Gazzard
Early Elementary School Curriculum
The cognitive skills emphasized in Elfie – distinction-making and connection-making – are those on which all-subsequent reasoning rests. They are accompanied by the criteria that are appropriate to them: sameness and difference. Other operations like the making of comparisons, the discovery of uniformities, the identification of classes, the formation of concepts, and the formulation of definition, all depend upon the logical infrastructure of these two sets of skills and criteria. Elfie should therefore be seen as the base of the Philosophy for Children program.
05. Getting Our Thoughts Together: Instructional Manual To Accompany 'Elfie, Book One', Matthew Lipman, Ann Gazzard
05. Getting Our Thoughts Together: Instructional Manual To Accompany 'Elfie, Book One', Matthew Lipman, Ann Gazzard
Early Elementary School Curriculum
The cognitive skills emphasized in Elfie – distinction-making and connection-making – are those on which all-subsequent reasoning rests. They are accompanied by the criteria that are appropriate to them: sameness and difference. Other operations like the making of comparisons, the discovery of uniformities, the identification of classes, the formation of concepts, and the formulation of definition, all depend upon the logical infrastructure of these two sets of skills and criteria. Elfie should therefore be seen as the base of the Philosophy for Children program.
09. Getting Our Thoughts Together: Instructional Manual To Accompany 'Elfie, Book Three', Matthew Lipman, Ann Gazzard
09. Getting Our Thoughts Together: Instructional Manual To Accompany 'Elfie, Book Three', Matthew Lipman, Ann Gazzard
Early Elementary School Curriculum
The cognitive skills emphasized in Elfie – distinction-making and connection-making – are those on which all-subsequent reasoning rests. They are accompanied by the criteria that are appropriate to them: sameness and difference. Other operations like the making of comparisons, the discovery of uniformities, the identification of classes, the formation of concepts, and the formulation of definition, all depend upon the logical infrastructure of these two sets of skills and criteria. Elfie should therefore be seen as the base of the Philosophy for Children program.
08. Elfie, Book Three, 1st Edition (Novel), Matthew Lipman
08. Elfie, Book Three, 1st Edition (Novel), Matthew Lipman
Early Elementary School Curriculum
Elfie is in the first grade and is so shy she can’t speak in class and can hardly even formulate a question. Yet little escapes her and her mind puzzles over everything that happens in class and at home. When the principal proposes a contest aimed at improving reasoning, her whole class is caught up in figuring out how sentences work and how distinctions and connections are made. At the same time, Elfie and her classmates discover many distinctions fundamental to inquiry: appearance and reality, the one and the many, parts and wholes, similarity and difference, permanence and change.
11. Elfie: Sources And References For Book One, Matthew Lipman
11. Elfie: Sources And References For Book One, Matthew Lipman
Early Elementary School Curriculum
This sequential bibliography matches the 1989 edition of Elfie, Book One page by page. It contains both sources—works that influenced Matthew Lipman in writing the novel, references to philosophical works he Ann Gazzard recommend to explore the novels’ philosophical themes, and brief commentary on them by Lipman.
10. Index To Elfie, 1st Edition, Matthew Lipman, Ann Gazzard
10. Index To Elfie, 1st Edition, Matthew Lipman, Ann Gazzard
Early Elementary School Curriculum
This Index includes a Table of Contents to the episodes of each chapter of the first edition of 'Elfie' (novel) and the Leading Ideas, Discussion Plans, Exercises, and Activities in each chapter of 'Getting Our Thoughts Together: Instructional Manual to Elfie'.
Two Islands (1985) By Ivan Gantschev, Gareth B. Matthews
Two Islands (1985) By Ivan Gantschev, Gareth B. Matthews
Picture Books
This is the story of two islands in the middle of the ocean: Greenel, whose citizens kept it fertile and green, and Graynel, whose citizens covered it with factories and skyscrapers. Citizens of Graynel wanted to vacation on Greenel and proposed to build a bridge between the islands, but the citizens of Greenel refused. Intending to force the bridge, citizens of Graynel stockpiled steel and cement and weapons on one end of the island, eventually causing it to tip on its edge and slide into the sea. While the moral of this modern fable is obvious – overarching human ambition, …