Children Just Like Me: In Association with United Nations Children's Fund

by Anabel Kindersley and Barnabas Kindersley

Book Overview

The authors traveled to 31 countries to be able to show readers real children from around the world; their families; and their favorite foods, toys, and activities. Presented in colorful, easily... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789402017
• ISBN13: 9780789402011
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
• Length: 79 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.7" x 12.2"
• Age Range: 10 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 12

Customer Reviews

Should be on every kid's bookshelf

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.

Thrilled to pieces

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.

A simply GORGEOUS book all about kids around the world!

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!

This book is a treasure, for children of all ages!

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!