What teachers say about Hoopoe Books
“They are incredibly beautiful and well-written books and unique and it’s wonderful to be able to give books that feature stories and people from Afghanistan, Central Asia, and the Middle East. It is certainly extremely important and timely to introduce these stories now given the world situation.”
“These books share not only wonderful folk stories from a region not often represented in current children’s literature, but there is also an innate potential in them for supporting skills such as prediction, critical thinking, and social/emotional development skills of demonstrating empathy and conflict resolution. This is all done with humor, bold attractive art and a strategic use of vocabulary.”
“The Hoopoe Books and Lesson Plans are carefully designed to show effective ways of defining and responding to everyday situations. Students learn to tie educational learning to common experiences and apply real life solutions to abstract circumstances. The program provides motivation to problem solve and discuss plots, characters and imagery, patterns and relationships. Measurable results of students are tabulated and include participation and academic improvement.”
“The content of the stories was excellent. They all provided opportunities to learn more about the literacy traditions of other cultures and to explore new ways to engage children in literacy activities.”
“The staff and I are very impressed by the depth of the stories and how the same books can be used by different ages with different “teaching lessons.”
