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Chicago school children participating in a performance of The Stone Horse: A Silk Road Journey.

© TODD ROSENBERG

Passion-Driven Learning
Chicago schoolchildren participated in The Stone Horse: A Silk Road Journey, a story-concert with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Yo-Yo Ma and members of the Silk Road Ensemble. Students had a hands-on learning experience with different percussion instruments before having a chance to take the stage with professional musicians before an audience of more than 10,000.


Books for Children

These children’s books explore the themes of travel and celebration across many cultures.



Lowji Discovers America

Candace Fleming
Aladdin, 2008

 
 

The Adventures of Marco Polo

Russell Freedman (Author)
Bagram Ibatoulline (Illustrator)
Arthur A. Levine Books, 2006

 
 

Celebrate Connections Among Cultures

Jan Reynolds
Lee & Low Books, 2006

 
 
Winter Lights: A Season in Poems & Quilts

Winter Lights: A Season in Poems & Quilts

Anna Grossnickle Hines
Greenwillow, 2005

 
 

We're Riding on a Caravan: An Adventure on the Silk Road

Laurie Krebs (Author)
Helen Cann (Illustrator)
Barefoot Books, 2005

 
 
Traveling Man: The Journey

Traveling Man: The Journey

James Rumford
Houghton Mifflin, 2004

 
 

Moonbeams, Dumplings & Dragon Boats: A Treasury of Chinese Holiday Tales, Activities & Recipes

Nina Simonds (Author)
Leslie Swartz (Author)
Boston The Children's Museum (Author)
Meilo So (Illustrator)
Gulliver Books, 2002

 
 

Monkey King

Ed Young
HarperCollins, 2001

 
 
How I Celebrate

How I Celebrate

Pam Robson
Hodder Wayland, 2001

 
 
Premlata and the Festival of Lights

Premlata and the Festival of Lights

Rumer Godden (Author)
Ian P. Andrew (Illustrator)
HarperTrophy, 1999

 
 

Celebrations Of Light : A Year of Holidays Around the World

Nancy Luenn (Author)
Mark Bender (Illustrator)
Atheneum, 1998

 
 
Happy Birthday, Everywhere!

Happy Birthday, Everywhere!

Arlene Erlbach
Millbrook Press, 1998

 
 

Tibet Through the Red Box: Through The Red Box

Peter Sis
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 1998

 
 

One Grain of Rice

Demi
Scholastic Press, 1997

 
 

Children Just Like Me: Celebrations

Anabel Kindersley and Barnabas Kindersley
DK CHILDREN, 1997

 
 

The Silk Route: 7,000 Miles of History

John S. Major (Author)
Stephen Fieser (Illustrator)
HarperTrophy, 1996




Festivals

Festivals

Myra Cohn Livingston (Author)
Leonard Everett Fisher (Illustrator)
Holiday House, 1996

 

“When we talk about a Silk Road experience, we don’t mean simply the cultural exchange brought about by caravans traveling across deserts, but something much broader.”
– YO-YO MA