Children Just Like Me - by DK (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Highlights the lives of children from over thirty countries around the world, explaining how their experiences are different, and yet the same, all over the globe.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>A favorite in classrooms, libraries, and homes, <i>Children Just Like Me</i> is a comprehensive view of international cultures, exploring diverse backgrounds from Argentina to New Zealand to China to Israel. With this brand new edition, children will learn about their peers around the world through engaging photographs and understandable text laid out in DK's distinctive style.</p><p>Highlighting 36 different countries, <i>Children Just Like Me</i> profiles 44 children and their daily lives. From rural farms to busy cities to riverboats, this celebration of children around the world shows the many ways children are different and the many ways they are the same, no matter where they live.</p><p>Meet Bolat, an eight-year-old from Kazakhstan who likes to cycle, play with his pet dogs, and play the dromba; Joaquin from New Jersey who enjoys reading and spending time with his family, and whose favorite food is bacon; or Yaroslav from Moscow who likes to make robots. Daily routines, stories of friends and family, and dreams for the future are spoken directly from the children themselves, making the content appropriate and interesting to draw in young readers.</p><p>To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of this special project, all-new photography, maps, and facts give unique insight to children's lives in our world today showing their homes, food, outfits, schools, families, and hobbies.</p><p>A passport to a celebratory journey around the world, <i>Children Just Like Me</i> is perfect for children who are curious about the children of the world and their stories.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Factual, respectful, and insightful...provides just the right balance of information and visual interest. -- <b>School Library Journal</b></p><p>Provide[s] hours of fascinating browsing and the beginnings of real insight into other cultures. -- <b>Horn Book Magazine</b></p><p>The candid, approachable text, accompanying quotes, and nuggets of information make the lives of these children as vivid as a friend's. -- <b>Family Fun</b></p><p>[T]his volume will draw in today's children with the immediacy of its photos of 44 international children. -- <b>Kirkus Reviews</b></p><p>The information is succinct, the photographs bold and friendly, and the children span a wide range of races and cultures...An informative and enjoyable read for the home, library, or classroom. -- <b>Booklist</b></p><p>[R]eaders get an eye-opening glimpse of the lives of 44 children living in countries across the globe today. -- <b>Publishers Weekly</b></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>DK was founded in London in 1974 and is now the world leading illustrated reference publisher and a member of the Penguin Random House division of Bertelsmann. DK publishes highly visual, photographic non-fiction for adults and children. DK produces content for consumers in over 100 countries and over 60 languages, with offices in the UK, India, US, Germany, China, Canada, Spain and Australia. <p/>DK's aim is to inspire, educate and entertain readers of all ages, and everything DK publishes, whether print or digital, embodies the unique DK design approach. DK brings unrivalled clarity to a wide range of topics, with a unique combination of words and pictures, put together to spectacular effect. We have a reputation for innovation in design for both print and digital products. <p/>Our adult range spans travel, including the award-winning DK Eyewitness Travel Guides, history, science, nature, sport, gardening, cookery and parenting. <p/>DK's extensive children's list showcases a fantastic store of information for children, toddlers and babies. DK covers everything from animals and the human body, to homework help and craft activities, together with an impressive list of licensing titles, including the best-selling LEGO(R) books. <p/>DK acts as the parent company for Alpha Books, publisher of the Idiot's Guides series. <p/>https: //www.dk.com/
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