{"id":2668,"date":"2012-02-28T15:17:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T19:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/28\/malka-penn-childrens-book-collection-on-human-rights\/"},"modified":"2012-02-28T15:17:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T19:17:39","slug":"malka-penn-childrens-book-collection-on-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2012\/02\/28\/malka-penn-childrens-book-collection-on-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Malka Penn Children&#8217;s Book Collection on Human Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uconnnclc.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/lottridge-cover-20101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/uconnnclc.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/lottridge-cover-20101.jpg?w=202&amp;h=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>In 2005, Michele Palmer of Storrs, Connecticut, established the Malka Penn Children\u2019s Book Collection on Human Rights<strong> <\/strong>as part of the Northeast Children\u2019s Literature Collection at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center.\u00a0 The picture books, young adult novels and non-fiction works address issues such as the Holocaust, racism, prejudice, war and conflict.\u00a0 The works below were \u00a0published in 2010 or were made available in the U.S. for the first time in 2010.\u00a0 Ms. Palmer, who has written several children\u2019s books under the pseudonym Malka Penn, is also a volunteer for the Windham Textile and History Museum.<\/p>\n<p>Chapman, Fern, <em>Is It Night or Day?<\/em> (New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2010).<\/p>\n<p>Ellis, Deborah, <em>No Safe Place. <\/em>(Toronto : Groundwood Books\/House of Anansi Press, 2010).<\/p>\n<p>Engle, Margarita, <em>The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette\u2019s Journey to Cu<\/em><em>ba. \u00a0<\/em>(New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2010).<\/p>\n<p>Jablonski, Carla, <em>Resistance: Book 1<\/em> (New York : First Second, 2010).<\/p>\n<p>Kittinger, Jo, <em>Rosa\u2019s Bus. <\/em>\u00a0(Honesdale, Pa. : Calkins Creek, \u00a92010).<\/p>\n<p>Lottridge, Celia, <em>Home is Beyond the Mountains<\/em>. (Toronto : Groundwood Books\/House of Anansi Press, 2010).<\/p>\n<p>Molnar, Haya, <em>Under A Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania<\/em>. (New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2010).<\/p>\n<p>Nelson, S.D., <em>Black Elk\u2019s Vision. <\/em>(New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, \u00a92010).<a href=\"http:\/\/uconnnclc.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/ellis-cover-20102.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/uconnnclc.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/ellis-cover-20102.jpg?w=215&amp;h=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pinkney, Andrea, <em>Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down. <\/em>\u00a0(New York : Little, Brown, \u00a92010).<\/p>\n<p>Ramsey, Calvin, <em>Ruth and the Green Book<\/em>. (Minneapolis, MN : Carolrhoda Books, \u00a92010).<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds, Aaron, <em>Back of the Bus<\/em>. (New York : Philomel Books, \u00a92010).<\/p>\n<p>Robinson, Anthony, <em>Hamzat\u2019s Journey: A Refugee Diary<\/em>. (London, England : Frances Lincoln Children\u2019s Books, 2010, \u00a92009).<\/p>\n<p>Shimko, Bonnie, <em>The Private Thoughts of Amelia E. Rye<\/em>. (New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010).<\/p>\n<p>Slade, Suzanne, <em>Climbing Lincoln\u2019s Steps<\/em>. (Chicago, Ill. : Albert Whitman, \u00a92010).<\/p>\n<p>Stanley, Diane, <em>Saving Sky<\/em>. (New York : Harper, \u00a92010).<\/p>\n<p>Warner, Jody, <em>Viola Desmond Won\u2019t Be Budged<\/em>. (Toronto : Groundwood Books\/House of Anansi Press, 2010).<\/p>\n<p>Terri J. 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