The Answer to the "Golden Question"

Hi Guys!

This past weekend Julia found something to answer the question that came up in our conversations so often -- What does it mean to be global? It's a children's book that is meant for early elementary but I think it would be a wonderful resource in a secondary classroom as well. The book is called "What Does it Mean to be Global?" and it's by Rana DiOrio. It's basically all of the conversations we've had put into child-friendly language with cute illustrations to go along with it!

Here's a little preview (it's not a very long book, but I didn't want to type the whole thing)

Being global means...
being curious about other parts of the world
opening your mind to new possibilities
traveling to places near and far...and appreciating how special they are
respecting that others may have different values than you do
and my favorite line: Being global means being a citizen of the world.

There are similar books and other resources (like lesson plans!) on the publisher's website:

http://www.littlepicklepress.com/

Carly had brought up the idea that we could buy this as a gift for David Moss - I thought it was a great idea but I realized we had already given him something as a thank you. However, I think he would really enjoy this book and if you guys would be interested we could all pitch in - the book is 17 so it would be a little over a dollar each - and we could give it to him the next time we see him. Possibly at the NERA conference? Let me know what you guys think about this!!

So get on the website and spend that 17 dollars you don't have so we can start creating little global citizens all over ! :)