Breaking Boundaries With Global Literature

Celebrating Diversity in K–12 Classrooms

Nancy L. Hadaway and Marian J. McKenna, editors

Supplementary Booklists

The Notable Books for a Global Society Committee of IRA’s Children’s Literature and Reading Special Interest Group identifies literature that honors and celebrates diversity in culture, race, ethnicity, gender, language, religion, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, and physical and intellectual ability. Each year, the committee spotlights 25 outstanding trade books for enhancing students’ understandings of people and cultures throughout the world.

The booklists below can be used along with Breaking Boundaries With Global Literature to develop author, genre, and cultural studies through literature.

Authors

• Authors With Multiple Works Selected
• International Authors With Translated Works Selected

Illustrators

• Illustrators With Multiple Works Selected

Genres

Fiction:

• Fiction Picture Books
• Realistic Fiction Novels
• Historical Fiction

Nonfiction:

• Nonfiction Books by Format (Excluding Biographies)
• Biographies

Folklore:

• Individual Folktales and Folklore Collections

Poetry:

• Poetry by Various Formats

Bilingual Books by Format

Cultural Representation in the Notable Books for a Global Society Booklists, 1996–2005

• In Fiction Picture Books
• In Realistic Fiction Novels
• In Historical Fiction Novels
• In Nonfiction
• In Folklore
• In Poetry

Annotated Booklists by Year

• 1996
• 1997
• 1998
• 1999
• 2000
• 2001
• 2002
• 2003
• 2004
• 2005