Read Your Way Around the World
One World, Many Stories is the theme for the 2011 Summer Reading Program and these lists feature books that include travel and foreign places.
Picture Books
Olivia Goes to Venice by Ian Falconer
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans
P is for Passport: A World Alphabet by David Scillian
Dodsworth in Rome by Tim Egan
Emma’s Turtle by Eve Bunting
The Adventures of Polo by Regis Faller
Babar’s World Tour by Laurent de Brunhoff
Duck, Duck, Moose by Dave Horowitz
Toot and Puddle by
Holly Hobbie
Polar the Titanic
Bear by Daisy Spedden
The Sandwich Swap by Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah
The Five Chinese Brothers by Claire Bishop
Babushka Baba Yaga by Patricia Polacco
Chapter Books
The Great Egyptian Grave Robbery (Flat Stanley’s Worldwide
Adventures by Various)
Chasing Vermeer by Blue Balliett
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
Take Me with You by Carolyn Marsden
Boys Without Names by Kashmira Sheth
Around the World Cookbook by Abigail Dodge
No
Moon by Irene Watts
The African Safari Discovery by Jeff Brown
Emeril’s There’s a Chef in My World by Emeril Lagasse
Kids Around the World Create! By Arlette N. Braman
Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: a Worldwide Cinderella by Paul
Fleischman
Gooney Bird Greene by Lois Lowry
Afternoon on the Amazon (Magic Tree House series) by Mary Pope
Osborne
Teen Books
Thirteen Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
Red
Glass by Laura Resau
The Red Pyramid &
The Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan
Back When You Were Easier to Love by Emily Smith
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
Heist Society by Ally Carter
Bound
by Donna Jo Napoli
Pirates
by Celia Rees
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta
Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins
