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Children Just Like Me: Celebrations!

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I am a first grade teacher in Phoenix, Arizona who teaches a wide variety of cultures. Some of the children in my class are Mexican American, Spanish, Bosnian, African American, German and Native American (Navajo and Apache). Recently, during an ESL staff development class, a wonderful instructor introduced this book to me and I was absoultly amazed! It has the most fascinating pictures and text. I had to read it from cover to cover. I had to buy it to have in my class. It must be a permanent source of enjoyment for my classes for years to come. I can't wait for my students to have the opportunity to browse through this book. We will use it so much. Thank you Barnabas and Anabel Kindersley, for putting together such a fabulous children's book!

What a fabulous book! My 5 year old daughter was delighted to see that children who at first glance appear so different also share her love for soccer, animals, noodles, etc. Each child's bio includes information about their family, home, school, church, clothing, pets and favorite food. This book has great photos, particularly of the children. Although there is much writing on each page, it is not overwhelming for her, and we can stop after one page, and easily pick it up again later. This is the first children's book that I've wanted to read by myself after she's gone to bed!

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Four years later, I'm adding this paragraph to this review. I continue to use this book with my now 5 and 9 year old children. It's an fun way for them to learn a little more about families who live in countries that we learn about. It's easy to read something in this book that leads to a much wider discussion. They also remember a lot of details from this book that they bring up at other times, such as "People from _____ live in _______ kinds of houses!"

This is a very interesting book, with wonderful pictures and lots of joy. It's a book that makes you happy. Many of the celebrations were unknown to me, and it was fun to see that the Swedish celebration of St. Lucia is described correctly in the book (I'm Swedish).
The only doubtful thing about this book is that the mix of different religions isn't very good. Most celebrations are Christian or Hindu - only one is Muslim and none is purely Buddhist. That's a bit of a pity. Anyway, great book.

I love this book and I use it all the time to teach children about other faiths and cultures. The beautiful, realistic photos make it great for sharing. When I am not using it, it makes a nice coffee table book. My only criticism is that it always makes me want to research more (not a lot of text, but the photos and illustrations make it worth having).

This book is about knowing the people you live with. It has pictures and information about people from all over the world, their personality and the things those people like. This book is good because you can make more friends because it shows what the people in different countries like. I recommend this book for people that are making school projects about people's lives and is good for people in international schools.

I got this book out of the library to show my kids the world and how other people celebrate various holidays and festivals. Yet I was intrigued by it, fascinated actually, and I couldn't put it down. Great photos, interesting text, and endearing children around the world as personal guides. A great book for young and old.

The photos are vivid and the stories are interesting. This is a great book to introduce children to some festivals and celebrations around the world.

This book, Celebrations!, is a sequel to Children Just Like Me. This book explains about holidays celebrated by children all over the world. The book focuses on the holidays, but interviews a child that celebrates them. The child explains in the book how, when, where, and why his or her family celebrates that particular holiday. I think this book is very interesting, especially for a person who wants to learn more about another culture's celebrations.

I am using this book while teaching a K-8 International class with our homeschool co-op.
I love the interesting pictures and information. You can tell it is a little dated, but the kids don't care!

My children received this as a Christmas gift, and it is a really nice book. Great for elementary aged school children, particularly appropriate for a holiday gift, because we can read together about other celebrations while we are celebrating. It is a book that we have put with our special holiday books that we read at Christmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, etc.