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BIBLIOGRAPHY

Books for Students (Kindergarten through Third Grade)

 

Non-Fiction

Dahl, Michael S.  The Netherlands (Countries of the World).  Mankato: Bridgestone Books, 1998.

 

Jacobsen, Karen.  The Netherlands.  Chicago: Childrens Press, 1992.

 

Solheim, James.  It’s Disgusting—and We Ate It!: True Food Facts from Around the World—and Throughout History.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998.

 

Whitehurst, Susan.  The Colony of New York.  Powerkids Press, 2000.

 

Fiction

Birchman, David Francis.  A Tale of Tulips, A Tale of Onions.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994.

 

Krasilovsky, Phyllis.  Cow Who Fell in the Canal.  New York: Doubleday, 1985.

 

Shepard, Aaron.  The Baker’s Dozen: A Saint Nicholas Tale.  New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1995.

 

Signer, Billie Touchstone.  Beaver City: a Story of Katy and Karl’s Albany.  Albany: J&B Books, 1985.

 

Spier. Peter.  Father, May I Come?  New York: Doubleday, 1993. 


Books for Students (Fourth through Eighth Grade)

 

Non-Fiction

Fradin, Dennis Brindell.  The New York Colony.  Children’s Press, 1988.

 

Hintz, Martin.  The Netherlands (Enchantment of the World, Second Series).  New York: Children’s Press, 1999.

 

Lilly, Melinda.  The Dutch in New Amsterdam.  Rourke Book Co., 2002.

 

MacDonald, Fiona and Antonella Pastorelli.  Food (Discovering World Cultures).  New York: Crabtree Press, 2001.

 

Tames, Richard and David Salariya.  Food: Feasts, Cooks and Kitchens.  Franklin Watts: 1994.

 

Whitman, Sylvia and Trish Marx.  What’s Cooking: the History of American Food.  Lerner Publications, 2001.

 

Ngcheong-Lum, Roseline et al. The Netherlands (Countries of the World). Gareth  Stevens Press: 2002.

 

Pescio, Claudio.  Rembrandt and Seventeenth Century Holland: The Dutch Nation and Its Painters.  Peter Bedrick Books, 1995. 

 

Seward, Pat.  Netherlands (Cultures of the World). Benchmark Books, 1995.

 

Ten Zythoff, Garret J. The Dutch in America.  Minneapolis: Lerner Press, 1985.

 

Thomas, Mark.  Clothes in Colonial America.  New York: Children’s Press, 2001.

 

Thomas, Mark.  Fun and Games in Colonial America.  New York: Children’s Press, 2001.

 

Thomas, Mark. Homes in Colonial America.  New York: Children’s Press, 2001.

 

Fiction

Signer, Billie Touchstone.  Beaver City: a Story of Katy and Karl’s Albany.  Albany: J&B Books, 1985.

 

Yolen, Jane.  The Sea Man.  Philomel Books, 1998. 

 


Books for Students (Ninth through Twelfth Grade)

 

Non-Fiction

Olsen, Victoria.  Dutch Americans (Peoples of North America).  Chelsea House Publishers, 1989.

 

Ozer, Stephen.  Netherlands (People and Places of the World).  Chelsea House Publishers, 1990. 

 

Van Stegeren, Theo.  The Land and People of the Netherlands.  New York: Harper Collins Books, 1991.

 

Whitman, Sylvia and Trish Marx.  What’s Cooking: the History of American Food.  Lerner Publications, 2001.

 


Books for Teachers

 

History, Art and Culture of the Netherlands

Brown, Christopher.  Images of a Golden Past: Dutch Genre Painting of the Seventeenth Century.  New York: Abbeville Press, 1984.

 

De Ley, Gerd, ed.  Dictionary of 1000 Dutch Proverbs.  Hippocrene Books, 1998.

 

Franits, Wayne E. Paragons of Virtue: Women and Domesticity in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

 

Friedberg, David.  Art in History History in Art: Studies in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Culture.  Los Angeles: Getty Center for Education in the Arts, 1996.

 

North, Michael.  Art and Commerce in the Dutch Golden Age: A Social History of Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Painting.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.

 

Riley, Gillian.  The Dutch Table: Gastronomy in the Golden Age of the Netherlands (Painters and Food Series).  Pomegranate Press, 1994.

 

Schama, Simon.  The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age.  New York: Random House, 1987.

 

Westermann, Mariet.  A Worldly Art: the Dutch Republic 1585-1718.  New York: H. N. Abrams, 1996. 

 

 

History, Art, and Culture of New Netherland

Blackburn, Roderic H. and Nancy Kelley.  New World Dutch Studies: Dutch Arts and Culture in Colonial America, 1609-1766.  Albany Institute of History and Art, 1987.

 

Blackburn, Roderic H. and Ruth Piwonka, eds.  Remembrance of Patria: Dutch Arts and Culture in Colonial America 1609-1776.  Albany: Albany Institute of History and Art, 1988.

 

De Jong, Gerald.  The Dutch in America 1609-1974.  Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1975.

 

Hackett, David G.  The Rude Hand of Innovation: Religion and Social Order in Albany, New York, 1652-1836.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

 

Klooster, Wim.  The Dutch in America, 1600-1800.  Providence: John Carter Brown Library, 1997.

 

Merwick, Donna.  Possessing Albany, 1630-1710: the Dutch and English Experiences. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

 

Culinary History

Elkort, Martin Edward.  The Secret Life of Food: a Feast of Food and Drink History, Folklore and Fact.  Los Angeles: J.P. Tarcher, 1991.  

 

Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe.  Near a Thousand Tables: a History of Food.  New York: The Free Press, 2002.

 

Riley, Gillian.  The Dutch Table: Gastronomy in the Golden Age of the Netherlands (Painters and Food Series).  Pomegranate Press, 1994.

 

Rose, Peter G.  The Sensible Cook: Dutch Foodways in the Old and the New World. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1989.

 

Van Klompenburg, Carol and Dorothy Crum.  Dutch Touches: Recipes and TraditionsPenfield Books, 1996.

 


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