World Brooklyn related books for kids and adults.

Markets Around the World

• Anderson, Sara.
  Day at the Market
  . Blue Apple Books, 2006. Ehlert, Lois and Alma Flor Ada. Market Day: A story told with Folk Art. Harcourt Children's Books, 2003.
• Grossman, Patricia and Enrique O Sanchez.
  Saturday
  Market Harper Collins Publishers, 1994.
• Lewin, Ted.
  Markets Around the World.
  Harper Trophy, 2000.
• Lewin, Ted.
  How Much? Visiting Markets Around the World.
  Harper Collins, 2006.
• Lobel, Arnold and Anita Lobel.
  On Market Street.
  Harper Collins, 1989.
• Miranda, Anne.
  To Market, To Market.
  Voyager Books, 2001.
• Parks, Carmen and Edward Martinez.
  Farmer's Market.
  Harcourt Children's Books, 2003.
• Ravishankar, Anushka and Emanuele Scanziani.
  To Market! To Market!
  Tara Publishing, 2007.

Immigration

• "American, A Home for Every Culture." ArtsEdge. The Kennedy Center. http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2316/"
• America Begins in New York.
  The Peopling of New York: A Teacher's Resource Manual on Immigration. New York City 100 Collaborative Project. The New-York Historical Society and the Board of Education of the City of New York, 2000.
• "Becoming American: Teaching Immigration Through Art and Artifacts" Workshop at The Jewish Museum, March 30, 2006
• Freedman, Russell.
  Immigrant Kids.
  New York, NY: Penguin, 1980.
• Kids Discover:
  Immigration.
  New York, NY: Kids Discover, 1988.

African Culture

• Ayo, Yvonne.
  Eyewitness Africa.
  New York: Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc., 1995.
• Ross, Doran H., Raymond Aaron Silverman and Agbenyega Adedze.
  Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity.
  Los Angeles: UCLA Press, 1998.

Chinese Culture

• Chang, Monica.
  Story of the Chinese Zodiac.
  Taiwan: Yuan-Liou Publishing Co., Ltd, 1994.
• Chinn, Karen.
  Sam and the Lucky Money.
  New York: Lee & Low Books, Inc., 1995.
• Demi.
  Happy New Year/Kung-Hsi Fa-Ts'ai!
  New York: Dragonfly Books, 1999.

  A great reference book for children explaining Chinese New Year with fun, playful illustrations.

• Sievert, Terri.
  Chinese New Year: Festival of New Beginnings.
  Mancato, Minnesota: Capstone Press, 2006.
• Roberts, Cindy.
  Chinese New Year for Kids.
  Chinasprout Inc, 2002.

  Explains customs of Chinese New Year through a variety of hands-on activities.

• Waters, Kate.
  Lion Dancer: Ernie Wan's Chinese New Year.
  Scholastic Press, 1991.

African American Culture

• Johnson, Dolores.
  The Children's Book of Kwanzaa: A Guide to Celebrating the Holiday.
  New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1996.
• Medaris, Angela Shelf.
  Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story.
  Illinois: Albert Whitman & Company, 2004.
• Trueit, Judy Strain.
  Kwanzaa.
  Connecticut: Scholastic, 2006.

Mexican Culture

• Ancona, George.
  Pablo Remembers.
  New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1993.
• Ancona, George.
  El Pinatero/ The piñata Maker.
  Harcourt Paperbacks, 2004.
• Carmichael, Elizabeth and Chloe Sayer.
  The Skeleton at the Feast: The Day of the Dead in Mexico.
  Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991.
• Emberley, Rebecca.
  Pinata.
  Little, Brown Young Readers, 2004.
• Heinman, Sarah and Todd Ouren.
  Mexico ABC: A book about the people and places of Mexico.
  Picture Window Books, 2004.
• Krebs, Laurie and Christopher Cour.
  Off we go to Mexico: An adventure in the Sun.
  Barefoot Books, 2006.
• Lowery, Linda.
  Day of the Dead.
  Minneapolis: Millbrook Press, 2004.
• Winter, Jeanette.
  Calavera Abecedario.
  Orlando: Harcourt Books, Inc., 2004.