Using literature to talk about bullying

teacher resource

indigenous representation…

Links to booklists currently on Starting in early childhood on Bullying. No Way! site

Zero to Three website (US) provides Books About Feelings for Babies and Toddlers which is a reading list of books appropriate for infants and toddlers as they learn to navigate feelings and emotions.

https://www.zerotothree.org/resources/7-books-about-feelings-for-babies-and-toddlers

The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL; US) provides Children's Book List with headings of Being a friend, Accepting different kinds of friends, General feelings, Happy feelings, Sad feelings, Angry or mad feelings, Scared or worried feelings, Care about others and empathy, Problem solving, Self Confidence, Good behaviour expectations, Family relationships, Bullying/teasing and Grief and death

http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/documents/booklist.pdf

Guidance matters: Understand bullying (Gartrell, D, & Gartell, J.J. (2008). Young Children, 63 (3), 54-57.) lists books for young children about bullying. http://www.naeyc.org/files/yc/file/200805/BTJ_Guidance_Bullying.pdf

Other links to booklists for reference and consideration

Reading Australia was created by the not-for-profit Copyright Agency with the goal of making it easier for teachers, through their passion and skills, to spread a love for Australian texts. They believe that every society needs to tell their own stories and the way they can achieve this is to provide quality and insightful resources to support all teachers of English in bringing Australia’s rich and unique literature into classrooms.

http://readingaustralia.com.au/2016/03/6-books-about-bullying-and-violence/

AustLit is a non-profit collaboration between a network of researchers from Australian universities and the National Library of Australia, led by The University of Queensland. Their goal is to support research and the teaching of Australian literary, narrative, and print cultures and the expansion of knowledge about the place of story in Australian culture in the past and present.

http://www.austlit.edu.au/ (and how to use) search for bullying, then refine by Genre

The Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) is a not for profit, volunteer run organisation which aims to engage the community with literature for young Australians. Their visionis to be the premier voice on literature for young Australians and to inform, promote critical debate, foster creative responses, and engage with and encourage Australian authors and illustrators to produce quality literature. Through these efforts, they are nurturing a literate, educated and creative society. Their missionis to achieve social impact by engaging the community with literature for young Australians.

http://cbca.org.au/

The National Centre for Australian Children's Literature (formerly Lu Rees Archives) is a comprehensive collection ofbooks and other resources about authors, illustrators, publishers and their creative works. The collection includes over 28,000 books, with some 3,800 of these in overseas translations in 53 languages, over 450 research files, and significant collections of authors', illustrators' and publishers' papers, manuscripts and artwork. The resources are publicly available, and visitors are welcome during opening hours.

http://www.canberra.edu.au/national-centre-for-australian-childrens-literature

The Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University (US) is a collection of picture book abstracts searchable by topics, concepts, and skills for building content area reading across all academic subjects. The collection contains abstracts of over 5700 picture books for children, preschool to grade three. Search over 900 keywords to locate books with storylines adaptable to curriculum or program. The Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University is also a useful collection for English Language Learners and adult literacy programs. Browse the database by alphabet or by category.

Search by Browse A to Z, then select bully.

http://dlp.lib.miamioh.edu/picturebook/

Publishers Weekly (US) is a weekly news magazine focused on the international book publishing business. It offers feature articles and news on all aspects of the book business, bestsellers lists in a number of categories, and industry statistics, but its best known service is pre-publication book reviews, publishing some 9,000 per year. Select Children’s > Book News > Bullying

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/54460-bullying-resources-a-selected-listing.html?utm_source=Publishers+Weekly%27s+Children%27s+Bookshelf&utm_campaign=beeba1fff2-UA-15906914-1&utm_medium=email&_cldee=amFuZS53b3JyZWxsQGRldGUucWxkLmdvdi5hdQ%3d%3d

Carol Hurst’s website site (US) provides a collection of reviews of books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.

Select Themes and other subjects and scroll down to bullying

http://www.carolhurst.com/subjects/bullies.html

http://www.carolhurst.com/

Booktopia (or other bookstores) is an Australian owned and operated online bookstore and a member of the Australian Booksellers Association with a range of educational resources that can be filtered by subject area.

Select Books > Non-Fiction > Education > Schools > Anti-Bullying Reading List

http://www.booktopia.com.au/books-online/non-fiction/education/schools/anti-bullying-reading-list/cJNLI-p1.html