The International Year of Volunteers for Sustainable Development is an idea too big and all-encompassing for the young students I teach, but the idea of volunteering or helping others is not.
Below are some books that I would consider using over the year to talk about community, our role in community and what people do to help their community.
• I Am We; A Book of Community by Susan Verde & Peter Reynolds
• It's Our Business to Make a Better World by Rebecca Hui & Anneli Bray
• How to Make a Better World by Kelly Swift & Jamie Margolin
• It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton & Marla Frazee
• Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena & Christian Robinson
• We'll Make Things Better by Ben Gundersheimer & Dow Phumiruk
• Red Knit Cap Girl and the Reading Tree by Naoko Stoop
• Hey, Wall by Susan Verde & John Parra
• Follow the Moon by Philippe Cousteau, Deborah Hopkinson & Meilo So
These biographies introduce real people who definitely did volunteer for sustainable development:
• Maybe Something Beautiful: How Art Transformed a Neighbourhood by Isabel Campoy & Rafael Lopez
• Food for Hope by Jeff Gottesfeld & Michelle Laurentia Agatha
• Listen to the Wind by Greg Mortensen & Susan L. Roth
• 111 Trees by Rina Singh & Marianne Ferrer
• I Am Farmer by Baptiste and Miranda Paul & Elizabeth Zunon
• Jose Feeds the World by David Unger & Marta Alvarez Miguens
• A Plate of Hope by Erin Frankel & Paola Escobar
While providing links for these books so that you can read the blurbs, I saw how expensive some of these books have become if you are shopping in Australia, but except for the last two these are not new books, we have them in our school library and you may well find them in your library.
Lots of Australian books could also be used for this topic and a good one to start with would be a book by Bob Graham, A Bus Called Heaven.
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