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Children Just Like Me (Unicef)

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This book is a collection of children around the world and is a wonderfull way to introduce your children to how people live around the world. Children of many different religious, finantial(very poor to quite wealthy), and ethnic backgrounds are given introduction within.

You and your kids will meet children like Carlitos, a boy who lives on an Argintine ranch in a three bedroom house and rides horses and drinks Mate tea. -- Or Suchart, from Thiland, a 12 year old budhist monk in training who lives in a small hut on stilts, has no toys, and starts his day begging for alms in his small village. He likes the cats who live in the temple, and is always losing his sandals because he has to take them off before he goes into the temple and forgets where he left them. -- And Thi Lien, in Vietnam who wears beautiful batik died traditional clothes made by her mother, helps feed the families chickens and harvest rice, and collects firewood. -- And Celina, who lives in the Amazon Rain Forrest of Brazil in a mud brick two room hut. She likes to paint herself with die made from a local root every day, and has never worn shoes. She likes to take the canoe out on the river her family lives near.

There is information about each child's favorite activities, what they eat, what they wear, pictures of thier home, family members, religious practices, and special things about thier cultures. This book has many children from Australia, Africa, The Americas, The Philipenes, Europe, Asia, India, and more. I have enjoyed looking at all the childred in this book and reading about how they live. Even though it's for children, anyone can enjoy this book. I only wish it had more children to meet. This book shows how children and people everywhere have the same thoughts, and fun, even though they may live in vastly different conditions.

I just got my book in the mail today. I bought the book because I homeschool my 6 yr. old daughter and thought that this book would shed some light on the subject of other countries and the way they live. The book is absolutely beautiful. Each page has information and pictures of where the children live, the climate, friends, family, where they go to school, food they eat, animals, what type of work their family does. This is a book that is suppose to be for children, yet I found myself wanting to creep off into the next room to look at the book alone. I even took the book to my dad's house and he liked it so much that I left it for him to look at. I would highly recommend this book for any age. Once you get it, you wont want to give it up. I believe my daughter will relate better to this book than any other book, because it deals with kids her own age. Make the investment. You wont regret it.

In a world where we're all struggling to be a little bit more compassionate towards each other, this book is a must-have. My daughter got it when she was 3 and stared in fascination at the wonderful, clear pictures of children from all over the world. (One bonus is that this is a book that kids can "read" themselves.) Now that she's 4 she looks at the pictures and connects them to places on the globe with glee. She seems to delight in feeling a real connection to children from all over the world. Sharing this book with my child is always a wonderful experience - we discover something new each time.

I bought this book recently to supplement my primary schooler's global cultures education. Something I did not note before purchase was the publishing date of 1995. Many of the pictures are in fact outdated now. But my chief complaint is that the buyer understand as I did not- this is not an atlas-accurate depiction of children by percent population in each country; it is actually more a compilation of minority cultures. The example children from the United States reveals this. For example, p. 6-7 show sample kids from several countries, some with typical appearances and names for their country like Yannis from Greece, Guo Shuang from China etc, but the US shows five children: two which appear hispanic (Nicole and Carlos), one eskimo, one unusual-looking chunky caucasian girl and one African American male with a seriously outdated hairdo and parachute pants. On the Americas page there is an entire line up of children, 24 in all, and only two caucasian kids in the whole line-up, which is a little odd. There are two eskimo children given two whole pages from the US and Canada (no other children from Canada- apparently they are all Inuit), where other countries with proportionately way more children like China do not get that much coverage. I unfortunately cannot tell if the children from the other countries are represented correctly, but the US is over-represented in general, as all the other countries have only 1 or 2 children. Tbe publishers should have left out so many extraneous US children, two children of ANY race would've been sufficient. I guess Australia's in the same boat as Canada as the only child represented is Aborigine, which is great to learn about, but not entirely a fair depiction of the continent. Oh well. The idea for the book is really cute, and the book is published with UNICEF, and when the subtitle says "a unique celebration of children around the world" they really mean it. Since this book functions similar to an atlas, it's a bit outdated,as mentioned. Each page includes a picture of the child, their home, food, family, school, favorite toy, friends, signature etc. Countries included: Canada, US (5x), France, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Japan, China, Mongolia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, India (2x), Tanzania, Ghana, Ethiopia, Botswana, Morocco, Jordan, Egypt, Israel, Argentina, Mexico, Bolivia, Brazil.

I bought this book for my daughter who is adopted from China, and I subsequently bought it for five or six other children and am buying it again. It's great for kids of all ages. My daughter is four and loves paging through it, asking questions about the children. It is especially good for adopted children from China because the page about the girl in China tells about how in China they may only have one child. I highly recommend this book!

This is a truly marvelous piece of work featuring so many different children from so many different parts of The Blue Planet! Those young folks all present a very insightful slice of their lives in such an amazing diversity of cultures that will really open the eyes of a typical kid here in America and everywhere else. Then he and she will learn that not all kids come in a similar package and that "the small world" is not really at all small in its great variety of human beings and their ways of life. So let all those wonderful kids take you on an eye-feasting tour 'round the whole globe!

My son got this book when he was barely 3. He loved it from the first day, even though it is written for a much older child. Now almost 5, he still loves this book---he will spend a full hour with it, examining every page, peering at the details, noting each child's way of life. In a small way, it has exposed him to ways of life he'd never otherwise know at his age.

This is the very best non-fiction children's book weve seen, and we have a library of almost 1000 children's books for our daughter. Also check out its companion titles, "Celebrations", etc. Our daughter began enjoying this book at age 3. She already has a great grasp of geography just from this book.

I used this book in my third grade classroom. My student population was very diverse and it was a great way to help discuss not only the many ways that we are different but also the many ways we are all the same. My students loved to see how other kids dressed and were especially interested in what other kids ate!! A great book to have in any classroom and I even bought it for my two year old son's library.

I love this book! this book is my favorite book of all time! (And trust me, I don't say that often.) I will definitley get the celebrations book! I was thrilled when i found out there was a second one! (I just found out a few minutes ago.) I was truly facsinated by the wonderful pictures and descriptions. I was happy they included Russia, because that is my nationality. The only TINY disapointment was that they did too many american kids.I think people know enough about the US. I would have liked to see more of europe, or the UK, (they didn't have any UK) or maybe Asia. But otherwise, the best thing I can tell you is READ THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!