Teaching Cultural Compassion
Here is the Yom HaShoah longer reading list, separated by age group. Thanks again to Amanda Friedeman, Associate Director of Education at Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center for this extended list.
The links below will take you to WorldCat.org, a free worldwide library catalog--just enter your zip code and it will tell you where the nearest copy lives!
Picture Books:
The Secret of the Village Fool by Rebecca Upjohn and Renee Benoit
Francesco Tirelli's Ice Cream Shop by Tamar Meir and Yael Albert
Janusz Korczak's Children by Gloria Spielman and Matthew Archambault
Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued by Peter Sís
We Are All Born Free: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Pictures from Amnesty International (not specifically about the Holocaust, but a good place to start a discussion about human rights)
On the border between picture and chapter books:
Irena Sendler and the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto by Susan Goldman Rubin and Bill Farnsworth
Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story by Ken Mochizuki and Dom Lee
The Brave Cyclist: The True Story of a Holocaust Hero by Amalia Hoffman and Chiara Fedele
The Grand Mosque of Paris by Karen Gray Ruelle and Deborah Durland DeSaix
Hidden Child by Isaac Millman
Middle grade chapter books:
Tutti's Promise by K. Heidi Fishman
Parallel Journeys by Eleanor Ayer, Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck
Bearing Witness: Stories of the Holocaust by Hazel Rochman and Darlene Z McCampbell
I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust by Livia Bitton Jackson
Graphic Novels:
Hidden : a child's story of the Holocaust by Loïc Dauvillier
Maurice and His Dictionary by Cary Fagan
Hour of Need: The Daring Escape of the Danish Jews During World War II by Ralph Shayne (coming in 2023, check back here for local libraries or pre-order it here)