The Learning Cafe, a refugee tutoring center located in Cathedral Square, is holding a book drive.
We need good books that encourage children and low level adult readers to read at home. The children speak English but most adults are at the beginning stages of learning English.
An extensive list of books, divided into groups, can be found HERE.
Collection boxes will be located at the back of the church for 3 weeks, starting Saturday, June 2, 2018.
Questions? Contact Julia, 616-940-2745, [email protected]
We need good books that encourage children and low level adult readers to read at home. The children speak English but most adults are at the beginning stages of learning English.
An extensive list of books, divided into groups, can be found HERE.
Collection boxes will be located at the back of the church for 3 weeks, starting Saturday, June 2, 2018.
Questions? Contact Julia, 616-940-2745, [email protected]
We’re teaching English to non-English speakers of all ages and wish to provide high quality books to them.
Following are some suggestions.
Titles by black writers and illustrators
All Newberry award winners
Titles by John Green, Gary Paulsen, Richard Scarry, Louis Sachar, Beverly Cleary, Jerry Spinelli, Lois Lowry, Patricia Pollaco
“The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros
“Nightjohn” by Gary Paulsen
“Love You Forever” by Robert Munsch
“Yertle the Turtle” by Dr Seuss
“The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein
“The Snowy Day” by Ezra Jack Keats
“Sylvester and the Magic Pebble” by William Steig
“Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse” by Leo Leoni
"A Storm called Katrina" by Myron Uhlberg
"Between the Lines" by Sandra Neil Wallace and Bryan Collier
"Becoming Kareem" by Raymond Obstfeld
"Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles, Vanessa Brantley-Newton illustrator
"I am Enough" by Grace Byers
"Black Panther" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
"Rebound" by Kwame Alexander
"The Crossover" by Kwame Alexander
"I am Alfonso Jones" by Tony Medina and Stacey Robinson
"Knock Knock" by Daniel Beaty
"Patina" by Jason Reynolds
"My Pen" by Christopher Myers
"Piecing Me Together" by Renee Watson
All titles listed here: https://www.goodreads.com/list/tag/esl
Other:
Magazines for all ages, as well as ones specifically for African Americans
Graphic novels or comic books for all ages (not much violence please)
People Magazine and others with short stories
Tiger Beat Magazine
Following are some suggestions.
Titles by black writers and illustrators
All Newberry award winners
Titles by John Green, Gary Paulsen, Richard Scarry, Louis Sachar, Beverly Cleary, Jerry Spinelli, Lois Lowry, Patricia Pollaco
“The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros
“Nightjohn” by Gary Paulsen
“Love You Forever” by Robert Munsch
“Yertle the Turtle” by Dr Seuss
“The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein
“The Snowy Day” by Ezra Jack Keats
“Sylvester and the Magic Pebble” by William Steig
“Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse” by Leo Leoni
"A Storm called Katrina" by Myron Uhlberg
"Between the Lines" by Sandra Neil Wallace and Bryan Collier
"Becoming Kareem" by Raymond Obstfeld
"Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles, Vanessa Brantley-Newton illustrator
"I am Enough" by Grace Byers
"Black Panther" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
"Rebound" by Kwame Alexander
"The Crossover" by Kwame Alexander
"I am Alfonso Jones" by Tony Medina and Stacey Robinson
"Knock Knock" by Daniel Beaty
"Patina" by Jason Reynolds
"My Pen" by Christopher Myers
"Piecing Me Together" by Renee Watson
All titles listed here: https://www.goodreads.com/list/tag/esl
Other:
Magazines for all ages, as well as ones specifically for African Americans
Graphic novels or comic books for all ages (not much violence please)
People Magazine and others with short stories
Tiger Beat Magazine