Children Just Like Me: A Unique Celebration of Children Around the World c.2

This book shows children from all around the world. It shows individual children from each area. Each page talks about a child's family, what they do for fun, their favorite toys, a sample of their homework, what type of food they like, their school, and more!

This Unicef book is filled with fantastic photographs from around the world. The book features children from all around the world, illustrating just how similar we all are.

This book shows real children around the world, on every continent, and features information about their lives. There are over children from over 140 different countries in the book. The continents are divided up and, in each, the children are introduced, along with their nationalities. It also

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describes every child's housing, friends, favorite games, and what they hope for the future.

This is a great way to introduce to children how other people around the world live. I also think that, by helping them understand the differences, they will be more tolerant and respectful now and when they get older.

I would have students choose a child in the book and then research the country that he/she is from. They will make a poster explaining the differences between them and the children from the other country. They will also present their findings to the class.

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Awesome book for Social Studies! The photographs and explanations of how kids live around the world are fantastic. This book helps make cultures around the world accessible and understandable to kids. I can't wait to use this in my classroom!

I really enjoy flipping through this book. It was a fun, easy read, with lots of pictures and facts. It is a good book for children who might get bored with chapter books without the pictures. It is very informative, and lets children see other children they might never learn about. The pictures

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and blurbs about the children are a great insight to different cultures, family life, and interests.

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Really inclusive and beautiful. Most of the kids are wearing common clothes in their countries, not traditional garb. (I usually hate that because then they just put American children in street clothes implying that they kids in Japan wear kimonos.)

The author of this book selected children from all over the world to explain where they are from and why it is special. This book needs to be in the classroom year round so the students can learn about children from around the world. It is important for children to understand that all children are

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alike, but also a little different. A being different is a great thing!

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Heartbreakingly beautiful smiling children. None from Sudan, Afghanistan or Iraq, and several from the USA, but on the whole 'balanced'. Just a nice honest reflection of how children around the world really do live in their own cultures.

Photo-illustrated book offering insights into the personal, family, and school lives of children from countries all over the world -- one page per child. Children represented in the book range in age from 6 to 16.

A fun browsing book that highlights the life of kids from countries around the world.