Children Just Like Me: Our Favorite Stories [Hardcover]

Anabel Kindersley (Author), Barnabas Kindersley (Author), Jamila Gavin (Author), Amanda Hall (Illustrator)

Book Description

Series: Children Just Like Me

Widening the concept of multiculturalism to include the imaginative world of young minds, Our Favorite Stories is a compendium of cultural histories.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Children Just Like Me: Our Favorite Stories from Around the World provides a cheery trip around the world through folk tales. This book reaches out to the broad audience that kept Children Just Like Me: In Association with UNICEF, the earlier title in the series, on bestseller lists for six months. This beautiful follow-up retells the favorite stories of 10 of the kids featured in the first volume. Colorful illustrations and photos of the contributing child accompany each story and margin notes offer background on each youngster's native land, with countries ranging from Brazil to France to Botswana. Each nation is marked on a big, colorful map in the book's inviting introduction. Children Just Like Me: Our Favorite Stories from Around the World successfully avoids the well-intentioned multiculturalism that too often substitutes correctness for art. (Recommended for all ages.)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 48 pages
• Publisher: DK CHILDREN (May 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789414864
• ISBN-13: 978-0789414861
• Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 9.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun book filled with multi-cultural stories, September 17, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Children Just Like Me: Our Favorite Stories (Hardcover)

We read this book as a family. We were specifically looking for a book with a mix of tales from different cultures. The children enjoyed the stories and had some interest in the "real-life" connections and discussions made in the sidebars on each page. It was a good read and kept the kids' attention (they are 5 and 7). I liked the multi-culturalism. If the book had more stories we would have kept reading!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A family favorite, September 28, 2007

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Telebomb (Napa, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Children Just Like Me: Our Favorite Stories (Hardcover)

My 3 1/2 and 6 year old both love this book. As a story book, the stories are as universal as they are rich and evocative, the illustrations are beautiful and compelling for the kids. The pictures of the children themselves are too small for my 46-year-old eyes. If you are interested in showing the lifestyles of children across the world, get "Children Just Like Me," which we also LOVE. In fact, just get them both. They are among the top 20 books in our home library.