In 2005, Michele Palmer of Storrs, Connecticut, established the Malka Penn Children’s Book Collection on Human Rights as part of the Northeast Children’s Literature Collection at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. The picture books, young adult novels and non-fiction works address issues such as the Holocaust, racism, prejudice, war and conflict. The works below were published in 2010 or were made available in the U.S. for the first time in 2010.Ms. Palmer, who has written several children’s books under the pseudonym Malka Penn, is also a volunteer for the Windham Textile and History Museum.
Chapman, Fern, Is It Night or Day? (New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2010).
Ellis, Deborah, No Safe Place. (Toronto : Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2010).
Engle, Margarita, The Firefly Letters: A Suffragette’s Journey to Cuba. (New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2010).
Jablonski, Carla, Resistance: Book 1 (New York : First Second, 2010).
Kittinger, Jo, Rosa’s Bus. (Honesdale, Pa. : Calkins Creek, ©2010).
Lottridge, Celia, Home is Beyond the Mountains. (Toronto : Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2010).
Molnar, Haya, Under A Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania. (New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2010).
Nelson, S.D., Black Elk’s Vision. (New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, ©2010).
Pinkney, Andrea, Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down. (New York : Little, Brown, ©2010).
Ramsey, Calvin, Ruth and the Green Book. (Minneapolis, MN : Carolrhoda Books, ©2010).
Reynolds, Aaron, Back of the Bus. (New York : Philomel Books, ©2010).
Robinson, Anthony, Hamzat’s Journey: A Refugee Diary. (London, England : Frances Lincoln Children’s Books, 2010, ©2009).
Shimko, Bonnie, The Private Thoughts of Amelia E. Rye. (New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010).
Slade, Suzanne, Climbing Lincoln’s Steps. (Chicago, Ill. : Albert Whitman, ©2010).
Stanley, Diane, Saving Sky. (New York : Harper, ©2010).
Warner, Jody, Viola Desmond Won’t Be Budged. (Toronto : Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, 2010).