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Recommended Web sites, Reading List and Suggested Activities for Parents and Families of the Austin Community to Help Cope with the Recent Tragedies
The Austin Public Library has put together a suggested Web site list and bibliography for parents to use as a resource to assist in providing information to children. These sites contain talking tips for parents. APL has suggested activities for kids that may help in the understanding and coping process. Additionally, APL has a recommended reading list of books that may be checked out.
Helping Kids Cope with the Attack—suggested Web sites to review for messaging ideas:
Talking with Children About Terrorism
http://www.ces.purdue.edu/terrorism/children/index.html
Talking About Conflict and War
http://www.familyeducation.com/article/0,1120,20-6055,00.html
Talking with Kids About the News
http://www.childrennow.org/television/twk-news.htm
Thoughts Regarding Children and Scary News
http://www.misterrogers.org/mister_rogers_neighborhood/
Things for kids to do:
Make friendship/remembrance bracelets:
http://www.aboutourkids.org/articles/crisis_bracelets.html
Learn about the flag:
http://www.richmond.edu/~ed344/webunits/khistory/brhome.html
(Betsy Ross: Stitching a Nation's Dreams includes instructions for cutting a five-pointed star, a flag folding activity, and coloring pages plus lots of information about the American flag.)
Write a card to a child in New York. The Brooklyn Public Library is willing to receive and distribute cards and letters of support for thousands of children, teens, and their families. Send cards to:
Kids & Teens Letter Project
Attn: Barbara A. Genco
Collection Development
Brooklyn Public Library
Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Color the flag at one of APL library locations. The flag is also available for downloading and printing so you can color it at home.
More Web sites to provide adults with current and background information on the events of September 11, 2001.
General Information
http://september11.archive.org/
An excellent site compiled by the Library of Congress, in collaboration with the Internet Archive, webarchivist.org, and the Pew Internet and American Life Project. A collection of digital materials from the Internet dealing with the September 11 attack. The archive will preserve the reactions to the attack by the press, institutions, corporations, and individuals
http://www.google.com/news/
One of the Internet's most popular search engines provides links to news, support resources, ad relief funds.
http://www.bcr.org/~msauers/wtc.html
Links in categories such as newspapers, television, radio, photo & video, graphics & interactive media, talk about it, for survivors, government and hijacking suspects.
Emergency Contacts
http://www.nypl.org/branch/services/emerginfo.html
From the New York Public Library and primarily intended for Manhattan residents, lists emergency phone numbers, hospitals, sources for grief counseling and traffic/travel information.
In-Depth Background and Government Information
http://www.lexisnexis.com/resources/
Relevant content from the LexisNexis archive of news and legal, legislative and business information to assist people in their jobs and lives with the ongoing after-effects of the events of September 11. Also, background material on terrorism and terrorist groups.
http://www.evergreen.edu/user/library/govdocs/hotopics/index.html
Maps, photographs, links to media and government agencies.
http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/us/terrorism/
Extensive resources from FindLaw including government and legal documents, reports and statistics.
http://whitehouse.gov/
View and listen to remarks by the President and Mrs. Bush, link to relief agencies.
http://link.lanic.utexas.edu/menic/
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin provides extensive background information on the history, cultures, governments and politics of the Middle East.
Rumors of War: Urban Legends Reference
http://www.snopes2.com/rumors/rumors.htm
This site, part of the larger Urban Legends Reference Pages, reports rumors and classifies them as true or false statements, of undetermined or ambiguous veracity, or indeterminate origin.
Reading Lists from Other Libraries
http://www.hclib.org/pub/reader2reader/coping.html
For families, caregivers and teachers concerned about talking to children about the events of September 11 and their aftermath. Lists books, videos and Web sites.
http://www.library.phila.gov/spotlight/sepbooks.htm
Books recommended by the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Some Recommended Reading
These books are owned by the Austin Public Library, most at the Faulk Central Library.
If you need assistance locating these titles or any others, ask an APL staff member.
TERRORISM
Dollars for Terror: The United States and Islam by Richard Labévière
303.6250882 La
The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the Future of Terrorism by Simon Reeve
364.1097471 Re
The New Terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction by Walter Laqueur
363.32 La
Silent Death: The Threat of Chemical and Biological Terrorism by Kathlyn Gay
J 358.34 Ga
Superterrorism: Assassins, Mobsters, and Weapons of Mass Destruction by Glenn E. Schweitzer
303.625 Sc
Terrorism by Ann Gaines
J 364.1 Ga
Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism by John K. Cooley
958.1045 Co
Violence in Public Places by Gustav Mark Gedatus
J 364.1 Ge
When the Eagle Screams: America's Vulnerability to Terrorism by Stephen Bowman
363.220973 Bo
The World Trade Center Bombing: Terror in the Towers by Victoria Sherrow
J 364.109 Sh
MIDDLE EAST/ISLAM
Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx, and Mujahid by Ralph H. Magnus and Eden Naby
958.1046 Ma
The Arab World: Society, Culture, and State by Halim Barakat
909.0974927 Ba
The Arab-Israel Dispute by Don Peretz
956.04 Pe
The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong
200.9 Ar
Between Memory and Desire: the Middle East in a Troubled Age by R. Stephen Humphreys
956 Hu
A Blood-dimmed Tide: Dispatches from the Middle East by Amos Elon
956.9405 EL
Fateful Triangle: the United States, Israel, and the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky
327.7305694 Ch
Islam: Opposing Viewpoints
297.26 Is/320.5509176 Is
Islamic Fundamentalism by Lawrence Davidson
320.5509176 Da
Islamic Fundamentalism
322.1091767 Is
Islamic Fundamentalism in the Modern World by William Spencer
J 320.55 Sp
Jihad in the West: Muslim Conquests from the 7th to the 21st Centuries by Paul Fregosi
297.7209 Fr
The Middle East: a Brief History of the last 2,000 Years by Bernard Lewis
956 Le
Sharing the Promised Land: a Tale of Israelis and Palestinians by Dilip Hiro
956.9405 Hi
Shattering the Myth: Islam Beyond Violence by Bruce B. Lawrence
297.0904 La
Spokesmen for the Despised: Fundamentalist Leaders of the Middle East
291.610956 Sp
Understanding the Contemporary Middle East edited by Deborah J. Gerner
956 Un
The Vocabulary of Peace: Life, Politics, and Culture in the Middle East by Shulamith Hareven
956 Ha
Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs at the End of the Century by Itamar Rabinovich
956.953044 Ra
COPING WITH GRIEF
Coping with Grieving and Loss by Sandra and Owen Giddens
155.9370835 Gi
The Grieving Child: a Parent's Guide by Helen Fitzgerald
155.937024 Fi
Guiding Your Child Through Grief by Mary Ann Emswiler and James P. Emswiler
155.937083 Em
Healing Grief: Reclaiming Life After Any Loss by James Van Praagh
155.937 Va
Mommy, I'm Scared: How TV and Movies Frighten Children and What We Can Do to Protect Them by Joanne Cantor
302.2345083 Ca
The Scared Child: Helping Kids Overcome Traumatic Events by Barbara Brooks and Paula Siegel
155.93 Br
OTHER
Encyclopedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements
R 306.1 En
The Handbook of Interethnic Coexistence
305.8 Ha
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