In an increasingly visible year, full of increasingly visible and often questionable political rhetoric, I’ve been looking for resources that help us explain this to children. It’s easy to underestimate what a child knows of society, and it’s easy to not discuss this sort of thing. Childhood is childhood and I get the precious protection of that. But equally, we live in a context of connectivity. We are global, we are social, and people talk.
Here’s a few resources that may help you talk with your children or those you work with. I’ve added the date in brackets after each entry for a static entry. I’d like to list more so please do feel free to comment with anything useful that I may have missed.
- A storify of young adult novels centred on politics / politicians (2015)
- 8 Empowering Middle Grade Novels for Kid’s Interested In Social Justice (2016)
- A piece I did about politics in children’s literature (2015)
- How to explain the refugee crisis to kids (2016)
- The News and Politics pages from Jump Magazine (2016)
- Analyse the same news story through different papers (Twitter suggestion)
- A is For Activist (Twitter suggestion. NB: Affiliate link)
- The 2017 Amelia Bloomer List of notable feminist literature from 0-18 (2017)
- Thirty-Five Picture Books For Young Activists (2017)
- My review of Francesca Sanna’s ‘The Journey’ (2016)
- Politics in Picture Books (2016)
- BBC Bitesize educational resources
- TES resources on teaching Government and Politics
- CBBC Newsround
- After Tomorrow by Gillian Cross (Twitter suggestion. NB: Affiliate link)
- The Bone Sparrow by Zana Fraillon (Twitter suggestion. NB: Affiliate link)
- Gay and Lesbian History for Kids by Jerome Pohlen (Twitter suggestion. NB: Affiliate link)
- 9 Women Marchers on Why They Fearlessly Walked On Washington (2017)
- 9 Ways to Explain Brexit to children (2017)
- The Week Magazine and The Week Junior
- A Mighty Girl pages on Facebook
- Politics, freedom of choice, and the big issues – a reading list for secondary students
- Empathy Lab
- CLPE Refugee Experience Booklist
- 7 Inspiring children’s books for your young activist (2015)