Books for Primary Age Children

“Mother….”
“Yes, Obadiah.”
“That sea gull is my friend.”
“I’m glad, Obadiah. Good night.”
“And Mother…”
Mother turned at the door. Her candle flickered and almost went out. “Yes, Obadiah,” she said.
“Since I helped him, I’m his friend, too.”

— Brinton Turkle, from Thy Friend, Obadiah, 1969

Books for primary age children which explore Quaker lives and offer glimmers of spiritual awareness are listed here. We also carry many books which elucidate Quaker testimonies and values for this age child.

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Bag In The Wind

BY TED KOOSER, BARRY ROOT
This book follows a plastic bag on its journey from a landfill into a series of townspeople's lives- a can-collecting girl, a homeless man, a store owner - not that all of them notice. Renowned poet Ted Kooser fashions an understated yet compassionate world full of happenstance and connection, neglect and care, all perfectly expressed in Barry Root's tender illustrations. True to the book's earth-friendly spirit, it is printed on recycled paper.

Candlewick Press 2010 48 PP. Cloth

$17.99 (low stock)

One

BY KATRYN OTOSHI
Blue is a quiet color. Red's a hothead who likes to pick on Blue. Yellow, Orange, Green, and Purple don't like what they see, but what can they do? When no one speaks up, things get out of hand - until One comes along and shows all the colors how to stand up, stand together, and count. As budding young readers learn about numbers, counting, and primary and secondary colors, they also learn about accepting each other's differences and how it sometimes just takes one voice to make everyone count.

KO Kids Books 2008 32 PP. Cloth

$16.95 (in stock)

The Ugly Vegetables

BY GRACE LIN
Sad that instead of pretty flowers her garden is full of ugly leaves and vines, till she finds that sheau hwang gua, torng hau, and other ugly vegetables chopped into the soup pot and smell delicious and draw the neighbors to her families door with gifts of flowers. The book is Inspired by her own childhood growing up in New Hartford, New York among her mother's gardens of ugly Chinese vegetables.

Charlesbridge 1999 32 PP. Paper

$7.00 (low stock)