Activity: Identifying Conflict and Resolution in Children’s Books

Activity: Identifying Conflict and Resolution in Children’s Books

Before you can solve a conflict, you have to recognize not only that there is a conflict, but also what type of conflict it is. Violent conflict is obvious. But sometimes the most pervasive and most difficult to see are conflicts are those that lie below the surface. The same thing is true of the […]

Sister Anne’s Hands: A Book About Prejudice & Civil Rights

Sister Anne’s Hands: A Book About Prejudice & Civil Rights

Written by  MaryBeth Lorbiecki, Sister Anne’s Hands, is set in the 1960s.  Told from the viewpoint of a white second grade girl, this is the story of a nun with dark skin who comes to teach in an all white Catholic school. The young narrator has never seen a black person before. She comes to love and […]