The Cow of No Color: Riddle Stories and Justice Tales from Around the World by Nina Jaffe, Steve Zeitlin, Whitney Sherman (Illustrator) (for ages 9 and up). This book is a collection of 23 brief stories and folktales with the theme, justice. After laying out the cultural context of each story, it is then told up until when the character makes a decision or takes action. In italics, the reader is then asked to reflect on what he/she will do/say. http://us.macmillan.com/thecowofnocolor

Holding Up the Sky: Peace Tales for Kids (for all ages). This is a 56 minute CD recording of peace stories and poetry from different parts of the world accompanied by instrumental music. The stories talked about values like sharing, cooperation, forgiveness, respect, paths to peace for all people. A separate curriculum guide is also available which included activities that can go with the CD. This has a guide for additional related resources. http://www.peacetales.org/holdupthesky.html

Make Someone Smile: And 40 More Ways to Be a Peaceful Person by Judy Lalli and photographs by Douglas L. Mason-Fry (for ages 4-8). This book shows simple statements accompanied by black-and-white photographs of many ways to become a peaceful person. It shows cooperating, negotiating, compromising, and forgiving as ways to model peacemaking skills. http://www.freespirit.com/catalog/item_detail.cfm?ITEM_ID=216

Paths to Peace: People Who Changed the World: People Who Changed the World by Jane Breskin Zalben (for ages 9-12). This book profiles 16 people who have worked to promote and practice peace in their lives. This includes peacemakers like Martin Luther King Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt, Cesar Chavez, Wangari Maathai, who works for the conservation in Kenya, Gandhi, and to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, a political prisoner in Myanmar to name a few. The biographies are framed by collage borders with the opposite page as a colored picture of images, cut pictures, watercolors, and found objects to illustrate the personality of each peacemaker.
http://www.amazon.com/Paths-Peace-People-Changed-World/dp/0525477349

Peace Begins With You by Katherine Scholes (for ages 5-9). In this book, Katherine Scholes' text and Robert Ingpen's illustrations explain the concept of peace and how it has a place in the lives of people, especially children. It explores the many ways of how conflicts can be resolved. It then proceeds to include some environmental issues and other national and international issues. The book suggests the value of fairness as an effective way to protect and promote peace in one's life.
https://secure2.convio.net/sierra/site/Ecommerce/1211260915?VIEW_PRODUCT=true&product_id=2501&store_id=1621

The Peace Book by Todd Parr (for ages 4-8). Todd Parr explains the concept of peace in this book with bright and bold images of smiling people and animals. For each page, there is a definition of the concept of peace like “Offering a hug to a friend” with the “Peace is being who you are” message at its end. http://www.toddparr.com/books/

Spinning Tales, Weaving Hope: Stories, Storytelling, and Activities for Peace, Justice and the Environment by Ed Brody, Jay Goldspinner, Katie Green, Rona Leventhal, & John Porcino (Eds.) (for all ages). A sourcebook of 29 stories from around the world. The tales encourage the values of compassion, sensitivity, cooperation, understanding of diversity and skills such as problem-solving and conflict resolution. Each tale is followed by suggested activities, games, and reading lists that could deepen the story telling and listening experience. http://www.newsociety.com/bookid/3764

What Does Peace Feel Like? by Vladimir Radunsky (for ages 4-8). The author has collected and exhibited a wide variety of expressions for the word “peace” in this book. With bright and colorful illustrations, he shows scenarios that go with the descriptions of children from an International School in Rome, of how peace looks, smells, tastes, and feels. At the end of the book, Radunsky lists translations of the word peace in almost 200 languages. http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?sid=183&pid=501154&agid=10

Wisdom Tales from Around the World (World Storytelling) by Heather Forest (for all ages). This book is a collection of folktales, parables, and proverbs from different countries all over the world. The stories are short and simple and reflect their cultural origins. Notes are included in each section that explain the background and history of the stories. http://store.augusthouse.com/productdetails.cfm?SKU=4791

    Materials retrieved and compiled by Larissa V. Frias, Mary Schultheis,
                      and Judith Myers-Walls.