Suggested Articles, Books, and Movies

Recommended Reading List

Sweet Charity: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement by Janet Poppendieck
Growing up Empty: The Hunger Epidemic in America by Loretta Schwartz Nobel
The Future in the Balance: Essays on Globalization and Resistance by Walden Bello
Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe
Hopes Edge: A New Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe and Anna Lappe
Rachel and Her Children by Jonathan Kozol
Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol
The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David Shipler
Nickle and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
Grand Central Winter by Lee Stringer
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Tell Them Who I Am by Eliott Liebow
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
There are no Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus
The Cathedral Within: Transforming Your Life by Giving Something Back by Bill Shore

Children's Books about Hunger and Homelessness

We Are All in the Dumps With Jack and Guy, story by Mother Goose and Maurice Sendak, illustrations by Maurice Sendak
Bone Button Borscht, story by Aubrey Davis, illustrations by Dusan Petricic
Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen, story and illustrations by DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan
May'naise Sandwiches & Sunshine Tea, story by Sandra Belton, illustrations by Gail Gordon Carter
The Rag Coat, story and illustrations by Lauren Mills
A Day's Work, story by Eve Bunting, illustrations by Ronald Himler
The Little Match Girl, story by Hans Christian Andersen, illustrations by Blair Lent

Movies about Hunger and Homelessness

Taylor's Campaign, directed and edited by Richard Cohen, narrated by Martin Sheen
Dark Days, directed by Marc Singer
The Fisher King, directed by Terry Gilliam
With Honors, directed by Alek Keshishian