This is Our Land

This is Our Land: Discovering America and the World through Original Illustrations from Children’s Books has been organized and is being circulated by Meridian International Center, Washington D.C. in partnership with the Library of Congress Center for the Book.		Elisa Kleven “We Are Back in the Park,” Abuela, 1991. Mixed media, collage on paper. Courtesy of the artist. Puffin Books (Penguin Group) Join us at the Queens Library Gallery this summer to learn more about world geography and culture through art and reading. This is Our Land features 80 original artworks by over 80 artists depicting the great diversity of people, pastimes and natural wonders in all 50 U.S. states, together with vivid images of life in 20 countries. Travel the world with your imagination, read!

RECOMMENDED READING
Below find a list of five children’s books featured in This is Our Land. For more great summer reading suggestions visit the exhibition or ask your librarian.

Israel
Nirah Harel, The Key to My Heart, Kane/
Miller Book Publishers, Zebra Publishing House, 2000
Illustrated by Yossi Abulafia J

Nevada
Diane Siebert, Rhyolite: The True Story of a Ghost Town, Clarion Books (Houghton Mifflin), 2003.
Illustrated by David Frampton 811 Siebert

South Carolina
Katharine Boling, New Year Be Coming! A Gullah Year,
Albert Whitman & Co., 2002. Illustrated by Daniel Minter.
811 Boling

Washington
Paul Owen Lewis, Frog Girl, Tricycle Press, 1997. J

Washington D.C.
Doreen Cornin, Duck for President, Simon & Schuster, 2004.
Illustrated by Betsy Lewin. J

RECOMMENDED LINKS
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/es
Explore the fifty U.S. states virtually with the Library of Congress!

http://www.meridian.org/ARTS/Children/index.html
For more information regarding this exhibition, or to view images of additional artworks featured in This is Our Land, visit Meridian International Center’s Web site. Meridian organized and is circulating This is Our Land.

http://www.pbs.org/parents/bookfinder/
Looking for a great book for your child? Use this interactive PBS Web site to find suggestions.

http://www.rif.org/readingplanet/
Hey kids! Explore reading and literature through interactive games and activities with Reading is Fundamental.