Resourcing Books
This includes the "what" and the "how" -- with some people providing both.
For booklists and suppliers of multi-cultural and "mother tongue" books,
see the page on International-mindedness.
Booksellers catering to the IBO programmes
Search for "IB" - and plenty of books come up.
A bookseller / consultant in Melbourne, Australia, who sends out regular mailings of books for sale, e.g., see his May 2010 PDF (NB: Prices in Australian dollars). He also can produce customized lists based on the MYP / DP curriculum needs of your school.
A bookseller who provides excellent resources for PYP/MYP/IB schools. See all her Recommended Lists, and in particular:
Professional Resource Books for the PYP
Non-Fiction Resource Books for the PYP
Fiction Resource Books for the PYP
Literature for Discussion of the Learner Profile of the Primary Years Programme
Literature for discussion of the Attitudes listed in the Primary Years Programme
Fiction Books for the Middle Years Programme Areas of Interaction
Non-fiction Resource Books for the Middle Years Programme Areas of Interaction
Literature Studies in English (DP)
Books for IBDP Theory of Knowledge
Pearson (UK)
Resources for the International Baccalaureate programmes
IB Source: Quality Resources for the IB Curriculum (USA)
Scholastic (USA)
Fiction and Non-fiction Titles Correlated to the IB Program
Pronin International (AUS)
IB Text Books and Resources -- for all three programmes
Jennifer Nelson (USA) specializes in library services to international schools and provides books via these two partners, both of which have lists of books for the IB programmes. NB: you have to register online before you can search or access their lists.
Children's Plus (USA) has the following lists available under Additional Lists: International Baccalaureate.
Browns Books for Students (UK) provides links to lists for IB Diploma subjects.
You have to request an account in order to search/use Titlewave, but Follett have lists of books for the Diploma programme -- and may have some for the PYP. You have to ask your Follett rep to send it to you. Follett also have a lot of multilingual books, especially Spanish and French.
International Shipping FREE
A major "how to get the books" resource is Book Depository in the UK, which ships books free world-wide (see the Country List). Okay, not to all countries, but most. For example, Vietnam and Thailand are NOT on the list. But China, Singapore, etc. are. And they're faster than Amazon (US or UK).
The beauty of Book Depository is that it's based in the UK and carries most US and many Australian titles. So you can expand your international titles for no extra shipping cost.
An oddity of Book Depository is that it ships every book individually (unless you order multiple copies of one title). This means on an order of 200 books, you will receive 200 padded envelopes (which you will recycle hopefully). This is a side benefit in some countries, e.g., Singapore, where small value shipments do not attract customs duty notice.
Online Bookseller -- based in Singapore
Open Trolley -- online Singapore-based bookseller, with more than 1 million discounted titles
Lists of Recommended Titles
LibraryThing catalogs
PYP2B -- a catalog of books relating to internationalism -- created by Ingrid Skirrow
PYP3F -- a catalog of books relating to mathematics in the PYP -- created by Ingrid Skirrow
PYPWSL -- a catalog of books for PYP workshop leaders -- created by Ingrid Skirrow
PYPLearnerProfile -- a catalog of books relating to the Learner Profile -- created by Ingrid Skirrow
UWC_PYP -- a catalog of books relating to the Profile and Attitudes -- created by Katie Day
lorenaf - created by Lorena Ferreira (UWCSEA Dover) -- a beginning collection of Spanish books for a PYP library
PeaceStudyCenterInc -- a catalog of books related to peace (not necessarily PYP, but still very relevant)
WorldCat booklists
Literacy in the Mathematics Classroom -- booklist created by Nicole Kutschenreuter and Genet Erickson (UWCSEA Dover)
Inspiring Activism through Literature -- booklist created by Sue Klinkhamer and Louise Phinney (UWCSEA East)
Other lists
Resources from a workshop on "Resourcing New IB English A courses" [wiki] -- by Jocelyn Holden & Fiona Pearson (Hands on Literacy 2010).
Recommended Resources -- recommendations that have come out of the IB Librarian Continuum workshops in the Asia-Pacific region. NB: There are many links there to MYP and DP lists of books
Library Catalogs of PYP/MYP/DP Schools
Many of these OPACs have resource lists of books relating to units of inquiry, the Learner Profile, and/or the PYP Attitudes -- and so are worth exploring.
For those unfamiliar with Destiny, the places to look are under "Resource Lists" [Public] and the "Visual" catalog search mode.
For those unfamiliar with Oliver, the place to look is under "Reading Lists" or via Olly under "Pick & Click".
NB: You can add to this list by bookmarking websites using Delicious and giving the links the tags "schoolopacs" and ("ib_pyp" or "ib_myp" or "ib_dp").
Another tag used is the type of OPAC ("destiny" or "oliver" or "koha").
To see a bigger list of "schoolopacs" (e.g., of other international schools though not necessarily IB ones), click here.