Customer Reviews

Bread, Bread, Bread (Foods of the World)

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4 star:		(4)
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1 star:		(1)

 

 

This little book talks about bread. There aren't very many words, but the few that there are augment a child's vocabulary, yet are easy to understand. The most important part of this book are the pictures. Using pictures of people all over the world eating all kinds of different bread, helps children to begin to understand the bigger world around them. The book also illustrates how even though some things are the same, they can also be quite different. The book also contains a helpful section at the end for parents and other educators. It's a small world after all.

I agree with the other reviewers that the pictures are wonderful, and the text (though minimal) is good. My 3 YO son really likes this book, and as others have mentioned, it works on several levels. I can see us using this book for several years to come to emphasize the fact that different cultures around the world DO have lots of things in common. The only reason I did not give this book 5 stars was because the captions giving you more information about content of the pictures is all collected at the back of the book. So if you want to know whether the picture is from the Philippines or the US, for example, you have to keep flipping back and forth. It seems like there could have been a way to incorporate these endnotes into the text directly without destroying the effectiveness of the book as a charming elementary reader.

We may all live in different places, speak different languages and end up having completely different life experiences, but many of us have a common food. My wife and I love this book as much as our children do. It is very simple, extremely genuine and makes me want to try all the world's bread.

an interesting way of introducing young children to the world and cultures around them. Bread is one of the few things all people have in common and the realism of the photographs leave the reader with a broader knowledge of this small world.

Our whole family likes this book. My daughter is not yet two but she loves Ann Morris' entire series of books and likes to identify things in each photograph. We look at the photos and talk about different kinds of bread, different ways of eating, and what different things might taste like. The photos are obviously dated but I don't believe that alters the impact of what the author and photographer are trying to do. There is one photo in particular the the adults enjoy sniggering at (I'll let you guess which one!)

We have also started baking the different types of bread in the book together so she can jump right in to the content (what kid doesn't love to have her/his hands in dough?). As she grows, we'll continue to read these books, moving on from identifying simple items to talking about cultures, traditions, environments, geography, and etc. In the final pages of each Ann Morris book there are maps and descriptions of locations/actions for each page that allow readers and children to talk about where places are in relation to one another. I recommend these books for curious children starting at age 18 months and all the way up into the school years.

This book like the others in the series is great. My 4 yr old & 14month old love both this book. The pictures are vivid, the text is simple...a perfect jump-off for an engaging conversation about the similarities we all share throughout the world.

A terrific collection of photos that introduces both similarities and difference. The text is very simple, but more info for parents to explain is included in the back, so this can serve very young and not quite as young children. (My daughter enjoyed it at 1 1/2)

Simple book with nice pictures, helps children to develop awareness of different cultures. Good for Kindergarten and Pre-K. 17 different countries represented.

Wonderful photos of adults and children from around the world cooking, eating, selling, and otherwise enjoying bread, with minimal text.

This book has a photo of a man smoking a cigarette. I am returning it. If you don't want to show your young child pictures of smoking, don't buy Loving either by the same author. It also has a photo of a man smoking a cigarette.