Themes: Cross-curricular, Factual text, Intercultural competence, Music
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This colourful and expressive picture book encourages students to explore different cultural forms of expression: in this case, jazz music.
Themes: Feelings, Health and life skills
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This picture book can help young people to acknowledge and express their feelings and participate in communication on different topics with a more accurate and nuanced language.
Themes: Family, Friendship, Identity
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This picture book can inspire talk about the generation gap and help learners express their feelings and become confident users of English so they can participate in communication on different topics.
Themes: Acceptance, Art and Crafts, Cross-curricular, Diversity
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This picture book invites the reader to talk about different styles of art, but still relating these to ourselves and the importance of diversity in society. Besides, this book will help learners to express themselves more accurately and with more nuances to communicate on different topics.
Themes: Acceptance, Cross-curricular, Democracy and citizenship, Diversity, Identity, Racism
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book explores the concepts of intolerance and racism using relatable comparisons for young people. Hence, it can contribute to developing students’ intercultural competence and preventing prejudices.
Themes: Democracy and citizenship, Racism
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book provides students with knowledge about segregation and racism in the USA in the 1940s. Hence, it can generate talk about what feeds prejudices and how to break down prejudices.
Themes: Feelings, Health and life skills, Identity
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book can help children to build resilience and develop a “can do” attitude to life. In addition, it encourages talk about dealing with challenging situations and believing in yourself.
Themes: Feelings, Friendship, Health and life skills
Connections to the Curriculum in English: In a very visual way, this picture book encourages conversations about feelings and perspectives on students’ own way of life and thinking and that of others.
Themes: Intercultural competence, Health and life skills, Feminism
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book can help open for new ways to interpret the world, and promote curiosity and engagement and help to prevent prejudices.
Themes: Amusement, Intercultural competence, Fairy tale
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book can provide an exploratory approach to language, communication patterns, lifestyles, ways of thinking and social conditions open for new perspectives on the world and ourselves. The book can develop the pupils’ understanding that their views of the world are culture-dependent.
Themes: Intercultural competence, Democracy and citizenship, Cross-curricular
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book shows that concept of text is used in a broad sense. By reflecting on, interpreting and critically assessing different types of texts in English, the pupils shall acquire language and knowledge of culture and society.
Themes: Feelings
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages students to talk and write about how to handle the feeling of sadness.
Themes: Cross-curricular, Environment, Indigenous people, Intercultural competence
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book gives insight into environmental issues connected to the rain forest and encourages interdisciplinary work. Furthermore, it can be used as inspiration for exploring and reflecting on the situation of indigenous people.
Themes: Cross-curricular, Democracy and citizenship, Factual text, Intercultural competence, Racism
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book about Malala can inspire students to explore diversity and describe different ways of living and thinking and hence, contributes to developing their intercultural competence. Furthermore, this book can be used to work with interdisciplinary topics.
Themes: Cross-curricular, Feelings, Health and life skills
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages reflection and talk about feelings, and it celebrates what good wishes can do for those who receive them. In this way, the book can provide new perspectives on the pupils’ own way of life and that of others.
Themes: Acceptance, Diversity, Feelings, Health and life skills, Intercultural competence, Democracy and citizenship
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book encourages talk about being different and hence, contributes to developing students’ intercultural competence.
Themes: Amusement, Friendship, Language work
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book is a brain teaser and awakens talk about interpretation of different texts.
Themes: Art and crafts, Fairy tales, Identity, Indigenous people, Intercultural competence
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This Lenni Lenape Indian legend provides insight into the culture and traditions of indigenous people. In addition, the watercolour illustrations underscore the message of the legend and can be closely linked to Art and crafts.
Themes: Cross-curricular, Environment
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book about human beings’ relationship with nature encourages reflections on and talk about the environment.
Themes: Friendship, Health and life skills, Refugees
Connections to the Curriculum in English: This book about a young refugee boy can provide new perspectives on the students’ own way of life and that of others. It opens for discussion around the refugee crisis.
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