Colorado Mountain College Neighborhood Children library Discussion

Imagine that you have been given grant money to fund your local neighborhood’s library with the specific intention of building a bookshelf full of children’s literature that imparts empathy to all, and, voice and visibility to children who are marginalized because of a physical, emotional, or psychological challenge.

You remember learning about the Schneider Book Awards in a course that you took in college:) and begin your research to build this important wing of the library. 

Your book choices are driven by your desire to share rich stories of folks with adaptive abilities as ‘the do-ers’, ‘the change agents’, ‘the power brokers’, and ‘the heroes’.  The book choices you have selected are:

1. A Splash of Red 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEwdJH0_nug (Links to an external site.)

2. Emmanuel’s Dream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVGOlyL1OZo (Links to an external site.)

3. A Boy and A Jaguar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-p0Un_1TOo (Links to an external site.)

4. We’ll Paint the Octopus Red

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6ZBXPgBDfk (Links to an external site.)

5. My Friend Isabelle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEB2bk29AMQ (Links to an external site.)

6. My Brother Charlie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxdxMw1OvTw (Links to an external site.)

Questions to Answer in Response to Prompt:

1. To justify your purchase to the library board, you need to write a short summary stating why you chose these books.  Why is it important to show folks with a challenge ‘getting on with their lives’ with agency?
2. Discuss briefly how each of these 6 books teaches valuable lessons about empathy and humanity.  
3. An Added NEW Twist: Two community members walk into your new library wing with their original children’s picture book.  Although both of these books are excellent, you must choose only one of these original books to add to your growing library. Which book do you choose and discuss your reasoning?   

• Luna and A Sign of Love (*Note BOTH OF these can be found inside the / Adaptive Abilities Module / Original Dream Team Creations! :))