Children's Health Books

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Introduction and goals

We are editing and updating the copyright-free storybooks from the UNESCO FRESH (Focusing Resources on Effective School Health) campaign to be more teacher-friendly and in a format that's better distributed on the XO and other laptops.

There are other good materials like this out there, and a number of places that have already spent time to gather links to them , and sometimes the content itself. These were first found re-posted on the Child-to-child web-site and then traced back to UNESCO.

How to help

For each book, we need to...

1. Convert the pdf to a text-editable wikipage (one subsection per page) - please link to that page from here!
2. Reorder the pages so that they're in sequence
3. Edit the book
   1. Edit the text of the book's story
   2. Edit the teacher's notes and expand into a full classroom activity
4. Create (or recover) illustrations for various pages of the stories and link to them at the top of the subsection of the corresponding page
5. Reprint the page as an attractive PDF (automatically if possible) or another format that's made for easy reading on the XO

When all books are complete, we should make them into a content bundle.

Progress

• Abdul and Seri - 1
• Bad Medicine - 1
• Basim and Bloog - 1
• Cricket Land - 1
• Dirty Water - 1
• Filthy the Fly - 1
• I had a Flower - 1
• The Killers' Committee - 1
• The Lion has Fever - 1
• The Mango Minders - 1
• Not just a cold - 1
• Old Chicken Eyes - 1
• Sam and Dina - 1
• The Song Competition - 1
• The Hare's Revenge - 1
• The Market Dentist - 1
• Uncle George feeds his Baby - 1
• Wally the Worm - 1