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Introduce your children to women and children in other parts of the world, and to festivals in many countries.

 

Rascals in Paradise, a service of Casto Travel, San Francisco, makes it easy to vacation internationally with your children or grandchildren. Want to go to...Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, Central America, Asia, Oceania...but want American children's menus? A crib? A high chair? Connecting rooms? A  prescreened baby-sitter?

Casto's Rascals in Paradise takes care of all that and even identify family-friendly resorts with children's activities and shaded playgrounds. And, if you want to be sure your kids have pals to play with, they will plan a 6-family group trip (each family has its own baby-sitter so the adults can vacation, too; a teacher escorts the tours, helps the kids learn a little bit about the local language, history and culture, and even invites local children over for play dates).
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The Peace Book. The abstract concept, peace, is difficult for kids under seven to understand. This book relates the notion to making new friends, listening to different kinds of music, and helping neighbors. With bright colors and smiling characters, The Peace Book is timeless, universal and can spark discussions in homes and classrooms. The book benefits UNICEF.
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The People Like Me show is a San Francisco Bay Area performance series for kingergarten-to-sixth graders who will like (and learn from) a curious character’s quest to find his origins and roots. Searching for his lost memory, he finds DNA, light and shadow, and gravity. Falling up and growing
down, he encounters world dance and music from Korea, Poland, South America, Indonesia, and West Africa. All are weekday school shows in February and March.
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Girl Scouts of Santa Clara County and Youth Philanthropy Worldwide have created the Women Worldwide Interest Patch. To earn it, girls learn to be a grant maker, design a logo for an overseas nonprofit, investigate laws around the world that protect women. Click here to find out more.

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Madam President. The story of a 10-year- old girl who wants to be president. This book introduces her to women foreign leaders, presidential appointees, congresswomen and suffragists.
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The Merasi Counting Book, illustrated by Indra Banu with bright folk art designs from Rajasthan, will help children see beyond their own experience---and learn to count to twenty in English and Hindi. The book, inspired and supported by photographer Barbara Goodbody, was produced by—and benefits— the disenfranchised Merasi community, which has an ancient musical heritage but is denied educational and employment opportunities. MORE  

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African Princess, The Amazing Lives of Africa’s Royal Women. Girls ages 8+ will be enthralled with the complicated, dangerous lives of the six women profiled in this extraordinary new book, beginning with Hatshepsut of Egypt who crowned herself pharaoh in the 15th century BC.
Throughout, the stunning watercolor portraits by Laurie McGaw, plus photographs. MORE

 

The People Could Fly, The Picture Book. Although the original, beloved book was published 20 years ago, the 2004 edition has new evocative, vivid images and features only the title story: a magical African people lose their wings when they are shipped to America as slaves. Yet one day the magic is recreated, and the former winged people soar from the plantation to freedom. The New York Times called this book “A triumph of words, pictures and storytelling.”
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Xanadu Gallery’s Folk Art International Resources for Education is a nonprofit
program that lends masks, puppets, textiles, musical instruments to schools, museums and art centers in Northern California. Kits focus on Africa, China, Indonesia and
Mexico.
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Winona LaDuke: Restoring Land and Culture in Native America. The youngest person ever to speak before the United Nations is a 17-year-old Native American girl, Winona LaDuke. After graduating from Harvard, she returned to White Earth Reservation in Minnesota to build schools, combat poverty and ecological destruction, and revive Anishinaabe culture by recovering reservation lands. She helped found the indigenous Women’s Network, and ran twice for US Vice President.
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Girl Scout founder Juliette Low loved travel and her organization offers girls many global opportunities. Members 14-17 can participate in Studio B’s international programs such as surfing in Mexico or sea kayaking in Costa Rica. MORE

USA Girl Scouts Overseas helps expat Scouts to the same excitement, fun, and adventures in Scouting as their stateside sisters.
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The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
(WAGGGS)
provides opportunities for international
friendship and understanding among Scouts and Girl Guides from 144 countries.

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Life Like Mine: How children Live Around
the World
. Profiles 18 children and explores
what life is like for them and other young people
in 180 countries. Organized into four sections according to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (Survival, Development, Protection and Participation). It has a bounty of photographs,
charts and maps.
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  Waiting to be Heard. Isabel Allende’s forward introduces this volume in which young people
speak out about inheriting a violent world. Thirty -nine students of San Francisco's Thurgood Marshall Academic High School use fiction, poetry, and experimental writing to offer passionate, lucid statements about personal, local, and global issues.
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The Global Fund for Children supports community-based education groups around the world. Its publishing arm is Global Fund for Children. GFC President Maya Ajmera writes the wonderful photographic books that are about children in many countries. Titles include: Animal Friends, a Global Celebration of Children and Animals; Let the Games Begin (about games and sports kids play in different places); Children from Australia to Zimbabwe; To be an Artist (ways children around the world express themselves artistically) and Be My Neighbor (about communities, with words of wisdom from Fred Rogers).
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Global Grover segments on Sesame Street introduce kids and their cultures around the world. Grover visits a six-year-old Chinese acrobat in one show, a girl learning to play the Puerto Rican guiro in another. After 35 years, Sesame Street now operates in 120 countries, working with local educators to tailor its material.
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  Mulan is based on a poem written more than a thousand years ago in which a Chinese girl learns that her sick father will be conscripted to fight invading Huns. Knowing he could never survive, she decides to disguise herself and fight in his place. Forbidden to speak directly to any man other than her father, she
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Children Just Like Me is a book by Anabel and Barnabas Kindersley, produced for DK Publishing in conjunction with UNICEF. The authors traveled for almost two years to more than 30 countries to meet, photograph, and talk with the children featured in this book. In their next project, Celebrations, children from a wide range of countries give a first-person account of how holidays are celebrated.
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