Gathering titles for my culture-tour posts is one of my favorite blogging tasks! I especially love the increasing number of voices having the opportunity to tell their own stories, share their own perspectives. Today we are privileged to encounter another …
Tag: islam
love one another…peace and faith in children’s books
Today I’m focusing on picture books centered on matters of faith, a topic that I’ve included only sparsely over the years on Orange Marmalade, but which I’ve been gathering titles for recently. The events of last week encouraged me to …
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like cayenne in dark chocolate: unusual ingredients in picture books…a list of five
There are quantities of fabulous picture books that address somewhat similar ideas: Don’t be mean. Share. Try again. Go to sleep. Today’s books all struck me by their unusual subject matter. If you’re looking for something a bit unexpected, dive right …
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sowing seeds of peace and refuge…some thoughts and book lists
If you follow Orange Marmalade you know that when my children were small, our family lived in West Africa. Nearly everyone in that vast, dusty land was a Muslim. These were the people who welcomed us in when we were strangers. …
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spotlight on…women, faith, and the Sahara
Deep in the Sahara, where men wear billowing white boubous and dates grow sticky and sweet… where women, veiled head to toe, bear water pots serenely on their heads… lives Lalla. Lalla gazes with admiration and longing at the beautiful, …
