Vietnam (Visit to...) [Library Binding]

Peter Roop (Author), Connie Roop (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1998 | Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up | Series: Visit to...

Describes many aspects of this long, narrow, southeast Asian country including its land, landmarks, homes, food, clothes, schools, sports, celebrations, and arts.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Gr 1-3--Average introductions to each country. Each book opens with a world map on the title page, pinpointing the location of the area under discussion. The first page of text features a simple physical map that includes the places mentioned. Double-page spreads treat the land, landmarks, homes, food, clothes, work, transportation, language, school, free time, celebrations, and the arts. A generally attractive, informative, full-color photograph covers the top half or more of each page with three-to-five lines of large-type text below. The material is necessarily abbreviated and does not take regional differences into account. The Chinese New Year is identified as the Spring Festival; and the Vietnamese Trung Thu festival, misspelled as Tung Tu, occurs in mid-September, not August. Pictures do not always mesh with the text: a Vietnamese house of wood is shown, while the accompanying wording states "many...are made of stone or bamboo." Vietnamese "landmarks" are hardly what one might expect--a river delta picture and a nondescript Hanoi street scene. Fact files, foreign "Words You Can Learn," and well-done glossaries round out these offerings.

Diane S. Marton, Arlington County Library, VA

Copyright 1998 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

Peter Roop is a Heinemann-Raintree author. --This text refers to an alternate Library Binding edition.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 5 and up
  
• Library Binding: 32 pages
• Publisher: Heinemann Library (April 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1575721201
• ISBN-13: 978-1575721200
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.7 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,139,959 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)