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Migrants Watanabe, Issa (2020). Gecko Press. ISBN: 978-1776573134. This wordless picture book tells a stunning migration story of anthropomorphic animals who must leave their forest and make many different sacrifices as they cross over borders into

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new territory. Each animal’s character and story are carefully crafted and reflected through their clothing. The use of migrating animals helps readers/viewers understand and relate to human migrant challenges. It may be easier for some situations and students to discuss this worldwide issue using this wordless book with its stunning imagery. It invites the comparative discussion of the migration needs of humans and animals as their life habitats become unlivable for different reasons. Conclusion I genuinely hope you feel encouraged to use some of these books in your work with all students in your classroom, connected with ELA, social studies, coaching, ESOL, or other support work with bilinguals and their peers. Literature is powerful. So, let us use it to make our world a better place where diversity is actively embraced as an asset.

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 Elke Schneider Elke Schneider received her PhD in Applied Linguistics with a focus on multimodal, structured, metacogntiive language instruction for at-risk learners at the University of Eichstätt, Germany in 1997. She has taught, presented, and published on this topic in the U.S. and abroad. Since 2003, Dr. Schneider has been teaching literacy education, special education, and multilingual learner content to graduate and undergraduate students at Winthrop University. Currently, she is engaged in a third large federal grant to train preservice and inservice educators to meet the needs of multilingual learners in P-12 schools. Elke may be contacted at schneiedoc@gmail.com or schneidere@winthrop.edu .

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