Bite of the Mango
The following are just a sample of the materials available on the book Bite of the
Mango and the related topics of Sierra Leone, children in war, child soldiers, and
more.
Sources to get started…
Greenwood Encyclopedia of Children’s Issues Worldwide REF HQ 767.84.G74 2008
“Sierra Leone” vol. 5, p.431
Encyclopedia of Religion
“Clitoridectomy”
vol. 3, p. 1824-1826
Magill’s Medical Guide
“Malnutrition”
vol. 3, p. 1604-1609
REF BL 31 .E46 2005
REF RC 41.M34 2005
New Encyclopedia of Africa
REF DT 2.N48 2008
“Children and Childhood: Soldiers.” vol 1, p. 376; “Sierra Leone” vol. 4 p. 410
“Clitoridectomy” vol. 3 p. 28-31
More detailed information…
Children’s rights
Fernando, Jude, ed. Children’s Rights. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2001.
Print.
HA789 .C455 2001
Child soldiers
Beah, Ishmael. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. New York: Farrar,
Strauss, and Giroux, 2007. Print.
DT516.828.B43 A3 2007
Brett, Rachel and Irma Specht. Young Soldiers: Why They Choose to Fight. Boulder,
CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2004. Print.
UB416 .B74 2004
Dunson, Donald. Child, Victim, Soldier: The Loss of Innocence in Uganda. New York:
Orbis Books, 2008. Print.
HQ784.W3 D85 2008
London, Charles. One Day the Soldiers Came: Voices of Children in War. New York:
Harper Perennial, 2007. Print. HQ784.W3 L66 2007
ON ORDER
Singer, P.W. Children at War. New York: Pantheon, 2005.
Print.
UB416 .S56 2005
Drama—therapeutic uses
Jennings, Sue. Intro to Dramatherapy.
ON ORDER
Female Circumcision
Walker, Alice. Warrior Marks: female genital mutilation and the sexual blinding of
women. New York: Harbrace, 1993. Print.
GN484 .W35 1993
Malnutrition
Shekar, Meera. Repositioning nutrition as central to development: a strategy for
large scale action. Washington, DC: World Bank, 2005. HC60 .R3656 2005eb
Sierra Leone--history
Beah, Ishmael. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. New York: Farrar,
Strauss, and Giroux, 2007. Print.
DT516.828.B43 A3 2007
Campbell, Greg. Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World’s Most
Precious Stones. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2002. Print.
HD9677.S52 C36 2002
Films
Cry Freetown
Invisible Children (child soldiers in Uganda)
Lost Boys of Sudan
Returning Dreams (child refugees of war)
Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars
Warrior Marks
Welcome to Womanhood
(on order)
DT433.223 .I685 2005
Media E184.S77 L67 2004
Media JZ1318 .L54 2005
M1630.18 .S547 2007
(on order)
HQ1233 .W453 1998
What’s new…
For reviews of the book Bite of the Mango, search Academic Onefile/PowerSearch
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For articles on the subjects of child soldiers, children and war, malnutrition, Sierra
Leone and more, search the following databases: Academic Onefile(PowerSearch),
Academic Search Premier, CQ Researcher, and National Newspapers. A few
examples follow:
Subject: child soldiers and Sierra Leone
Hansen, Brian. "Children in Crisis." CQ Researcher 31 August 2001: n. page. CQ
Researcher Online. Web. 4 May 2009.
Subject: Sierra Leone
Masci, David. "Aiding Africa." CQ Researcher. 29 August 2003. CQ Researcher
Online. Web. 4 May 2009.
Subject: children and Sierra Leone
Meier, Eileen. "Effects of trauma and war on children. (Legislative and Policy
Update)." Pediatric Nursing 28.6 (Nov-Dec 2002): 626(4). PowerSearch.
Web. 4 May 2009.
Subject: Drama—therapeutic use
Zoepf, Katherine. “In Lebanon, A professor uses theater to help traumatized
Children.” Chronicle of Higher Education 53.3 (2006): 45. Academic
Search Premier. Web. 17 August 2009.
Subject: malnutrition in children and Africa
Madhavan, Sangeetha; Townsend, Nicholas. “The social context of children’s
nutritional status in rural South Africa.” Scandinavian Journal of Public
Health, 69.35 (May2007): 107-117. Academic Search Premier. Web. 17
August 2009.
Webliography…
ANNICK Podcast with Mariatu Kamara.
http://www.openbooktoronto.com/audio/annick_podcast_with_mariatu_kamara
Forgotten Children of War (Human Rights Watch Report)
http://www.hrw.org/en/reports/1999/07/01/forgotten-children-war-0
The Global Movement for Children (type in “war” in the search box for related
articles) http://www.gmfc.org
The Mariatu Foundation http://www.mariatufoundation.com/index.htm
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