BOOK SETS
2014
The One and Only Ivan, by Katherine Applegate
Waiting for the Biblioburro, by Monica Brown, illustrated by John Parra
Armando and the Blue Tarp School, by Edith Hope and Judith Pinkerton Josephson, illustrated by Hernan Sosa
Every Last Drop: Bringing Clean Water Home, by Michelle Mulder
2013
Azzi in Between, written and illustrated by Sarah Garland
Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai, written and illustrated by Claire A. Nivola
One Well: The Story of Water On Earth, written by Rochelle Strauss, illustrated by Rosemary Woods
WaterBridge Outreach: Books + Water grew out of PaperTigers.org, an internationally recognized website about books in English for young readers. This website and its blog worked to bridge cultures and open minds, promoting a greater understanding and empathy among young people from different backgrounds, countries, and ethnicities. Over a period of eleven years PaperTigers embraced books with a multicultural focus from around the world, offering a wealth of book-related resources for everyone interested in the world of children's and young adult books. The website, which closed in 2012, is still available as a library, or resource, at www.papertigers.org.
In 2009 PaperTigers.org added an outreach program, Spirit of PaperTigers (later called WaterBridge Outreach) , to its activities with two purposes: to put books in the hands of young readers in the hope that they would inspire and educate lifelong readers, and to fund the development of water projects that would provide the children and communities where books were donated access to clean drinking water and sanitation. WaterBridge Outreach: Books + Water is committed to pursuing and developing this program into the future.
2012 WaterBridge Outreach Book Set - click here to access archived e-zine
Out of the Way! Out of the Way!, by Uma Krishnaswami and Uma Krishnaswamy
The Good Garden: How One Family Went from Hunger to Having Enough, written by Katie Smith Milway, illustrated by Sylvie Daigneault
Drawing from Memory, by Allen Say
Yuko-Chan and the Daruma Doll, by Sunny Seki
2011 Spirit of PaperTigers.org Book Set - click here to access archived e-zine
A Child's Garden: A Story of Hope, written and illustrated by Michael Foreman
Rain School, written and illustrated by James Rumford
Biblioburro, written and illustrated by Jeanette Winter
2010 Spirit of PaperTigers.org Book Set - click here to access archived e-zine
My Little Round House,written and illustrated by Bolormaa Baasansuren
First Come the Zebra, written and illustrated by Lynne Barasch
The Storyteller's Candle / La velita de los cuentos, written by Lucia Gonzalez, illustrated by Lulu Delacre
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, written and illustrated by Grace Lin
One Hen: How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference, written by Katie Smith Milway, illustrated by Eugenie Fernandes
Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai, written and illustrated by Claire A. Nivola
Little Leap Forward: A Boy in Beijing, written by Guo Yue and Clare Farrow, ilustrated by Helen Cann