Reading the World: How I Read a Book from Every Country

Ann Morgan

Vintage

The natural beauty and unique features of trees are presented in a simple text format for emerging readers and speakers of the English language, with supporting vivid photographic illustrations. The use of realism, information scaffolding and text features make this material accessible to English language learners, special education students or adult literacy students, as well as capable young readers interested in non-fiction. Interactive CD (under separate cover) fosters reading independence. Optional follow-up questions are leveled from closed to open-ended.

Trees

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Starting Gate Press

Vivid photographic illustrations and simple text descriptions of the sections of a grocery store introduce vocabulary and build familiarity with the areas, workers, containers, products and other items in an American grocery store. The use of realism, information scaffolding and text features make this material accessible to English language learners, special education students or adult literacy students, as well as capable young readers interested in non-fiction. Interactive CD (under separate cover) fosters reading independence. Optional follow-up questions are leveled from closed to open-ended.

Grocery Store

Vivid pictures and straightforward text describe the things, workers and functions of a public library in the United States. The use of realism, information scaffolding and text features make this material accessible to English language learners, special education students or adult literacy students, as well as capable young readers interested in non-fiction.

Library

A beguiling exploration of the joys of reading across boundaries, inspired by the author's yearlong journey through a book from every country. Ann Morgan writes in the opening of this delightful book, "I glanced up at my bookshelves, the proud record of more than 20 years of reading, and found a host of English and North American greats starting down at me.… I had barely touched a work by a foreign language author in years.… The awful truth dawned. I was a literary xenophobe." Prompted to read a book translated into English from each of the world's 195 UN-recognized countries (plus Taiwan and one extra), Ann sought out classics, folktales, current favorites, and commercial triumphs, novels, short stories, memoirs, and countless mixtures of all these things. The world between two covers, the world to which Ann introduces us with affection and no small measure of wit, is a world rich in the kind of narratives that engage us passionately: We meet an irreverent junk food-obsessed heroine in Kuwait, an explorer from Togo who spent years among the Inuit in Greenland, and a former child circus performer of Roma background seeking sanctuary in Switzerland. Ann's quest explores issues that affect us all: personal, political, national, and global. What is cultural heritage? How do we define national identity? Is it possible to overcome censorship and propaganda? And, above all, why and how should we read from other cultures, languages, and traditions? Illuminating and inspiring, The World Between Two Covers welcomes us into the global community of stories.

World Between Two Covers, The

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

Six-year-old Helen and Ellie are identical twins, but Helen is smarter, more popular, and their mother's favorite. Ellie, on the other hand, requires special instruction at school, is friendless, and is punished at every turn. Until they decide to swap places--just for fun, and just for one day--and Ellie refuses to switch back. Everything of Helen's, from her toys to her friends to her identity, now belongs to her sister. With those around her oblivious to her plight, the girl who used to be Helen loses her sense of self and withdraws into a spiral of behavioral problems, delinquency, and mental illness. In time, she's not even sure of her memory of the switch. Twenty-five years later, she receives a call that threatens to pull her back into her sister's dangerous orbit. Will she take this chance to face her past?

Beside Myself

Literary

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