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Let's Eat: What Children Eat Around the World

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This book is great to use in any multi-cultural lesson and/or classroom. It explores the lives of 5 children around the world (South Africa, Mexico, Thailand, France and India)and the food they eat. This book includes recipes, a food glossary and even special food traditions each culture has. Contains many colorful pictures and would be great to use with both young and old!

Five children presented in Beatrice Hollyer's Let's Eat! represent very different countries and cultures, each with their own ideas about what tastes good. Cultural differences and similarities in cooking and foods are explored in chapters which not only cover dishes themselves, but shopping and mealtime preparations and rituals intrinsic to each country. South African, Mexico, Thailand, France, and India are the countries profiled in a colorful comparison of food and cultures.

In this book we meet five children from various countries in the world. They walk us through a day in their lives. The focus is mainly on the foods they enjoy with their families. Also included in the book are 5 recipes so that you can sample the foods the children enjoy.

The full color photos of the children from each country help to bring the story to life.

This book is a good start to introduce culture and geography. The most important theme in the book is that people are the same all all over the world! Everybody Eats!!! I highly recommend it!

One of a number of books that teach young children lessons in geography, foreign cultures, helping to promote an way of thinking that fosters mutual respect and harmony. Five countries are featured, including Morocco and India. It is a good early childhood book, a molding book, that is, it molds children's thinking in a positive direction. Worth it for the early childhood, pre-K to 2nd Grade classroom or home. Good library book.

In "Let's Eat," we are introduced to five children -- from South Africa, Mexico, France, India, and Thailand -- and see what a day in their life is like. How do they live? What do they eat on a normal day? What do they eat for a celebration? Through the vehicle of food, we come to better understand daily life for these children, whether they have running water, how much cooking and grocery shopping they do, and what flavors they enjoy. Also included is a recipe from each.

The book is intresting but only that. Could be much better if had some more research and reflections on the issues.