TeachPeaceNow

When I Grow Up, I Will Win the Nobel Peace Prize

Author Isabel Pin Translated by Nancy Seitz

2006 Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Meets anti-bias criteria yes.

This title fits these categories

Activist: Shows ways we can make a difference.

Acceptable grade levels: Preschool to Grade 5

Classification: Picture book

Concepts/ Topics covered in book:

Translated from the German, this simply worded book (one sentence on a two page spread), shows a fanciful boy naming all the things he will do when he grows up to create peace in the world. On the last page he realizes there is so much to do he'd better get started right away. The setting reflects an urban German landscape.

Questions

Pre-Reading: When you grow up would you like to win an important award? Have you ever heard of the Nobel Peace Prize? There is a blurb at the back giving a short history of the award and names some of the past recepients.

Post-Reading: Do we need to win an award to work for peace? Could we do any of these things right now to help create peace in the world?

Activities

Have children decide on one thing the class could do to make to create peace. Make a plan of action and carry out their idea.

For older children have them research the past winners of the Noble Peace Prize and then make posters to display in the school.

Visit the Nobel Prize website and view the videos and play the games http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/

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