Item category 2: Book Box

A young boy discusses the journey he is about to make with his mother. They will leave their town, she explains, and it will be sad but also a little bit exciting. They will have to say goodbye to friends and loved ones, and that will be difficult. They will have to walk and walk and walk, and al...

This is a delightful story featuring a Somali boy and his class on a school trip to the seaside. The beautiful and vibrant illustrations by Karin Littlewood depict the diversity in modern city classrooms. This book was made with the Somali community in Harrow and several local schools. Children a...

This series tells the amazing stories of inspiring people who have made a difference and changed the world, despite the odds stacked against them. They detail the characters' humble origins, the obstacles standing in their way that had to be overcome, and discuss the successes and achievements fo...

Is there anything more splendid than a baby's skin? For families of all stripes comes a sweet celebration of what makes us unique - and what holds us together. Look at you! You look so cute in your brand-new birthday suit. Just savour these bouquets of babies - cocoa-brown, cinnamon, peaches and ...

Born a humble girl in what is now Albania, Agnes Bojaxhiu lived a charitable life. She pledged herself to a religious order at the age of 18 and chose the name Sister Teresa, after the patron saint of missionaries. While teaching in India, where famine and violence had devastated the poor, she sh...

One country: Pakistan. Two children: Iqbal Masih and Malala Yousafzai. Each was unafraid to speak out. He, against inhumane child slavery in the carpet trade. She, for the right of girls to attend school. Both were shot by those who disagreed with them - he in 1995, she in 2012. Iqbal was killed ...

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in 1869 in British-occupied India. Though he studied law in London and spent his early adulthood in South Africa, he remained devoted to his homeland and spent the later part of his life working to make India an independent nation. This book is a biography of h...

A selection of over 200 photographs of Manchester's Irish community.

Hopscotch, cat's cradle, the mud game, football, Waly. Many different ways to play, with games that are familiar all over the world as well as some traditional African games. Photographed in Mali by an award-winning photographer, this is a unique and culturally diverse word book, with lots to loo...