Welcome to My World

Join children and their families from around the world as they celebrate religious festivals and special times of year. • On the Scottish Shetland Islands, dress as a Viking and march through the streets to celebrate the festival of Up Helly Aa. • In India, join the crowds celebrating the Hindu festival of Holi to sing, dance, and throw colored water and powdered paint at friends, family, and even strangers! • Take part in a celebratory spring picnic under the beautiful cherry blossom in a Japanese park, or enjoy horse races, wrestling, and archery at the mid summer Naadam festival in Mongolia. • And watch as Fulani cattle herders in Mali return home to their families after months away to be greeted with music, dancing, and feasting. The book includes a world map that pinpoints where every story comes from. Filled with beautiful photographs, the book introduces readers to some unfamiliar celebrations, but also celebrates more familiar special times, such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Eid al-Fitr, Chinese New Year, and the Day of the Dead.

In this beautiful photographic book, young readers will discover that there are many different types of places and structures that children and their families call home. • Readers will learn about homes such as the wood and mud hut homes of the Himba people in Namibia, houseboat homes in Cambodia, colorful wooden houses in icy Greenland, crowded city homes, and Mongolian nomad tent homes. • This book will also explore what it is like to live in a temporary tent home in a refugee camp or a makeshift slum home, that's built from trash, in Delhi, India. • The book includes a world map that pinpoints where every family and home that's featured in the book comes from. This book celebrates the importance of our homes and asks young readers to think about what home means to them and to other children. Supported by stunning photographs, the accessible text helps kids understand that a home isn't always a house or an apartment!

Everybody needs water to live. But for many children and their families, obtaining water is not as simple as turning on a tap. In this book, readers will learn how people around the world find, collect, and use water. • Meet the San people of the scorching Kalahari Desert who dig up plant roots and crush them to squeeze out a little water. • Join a Nenet family in Siberia as they melt snow to make water for drinking and cooking. • And in Guatemala, discover how mountain families capture fog and condense it to make fresh water. • Readers will also learn how some children must drink water that is dirty and dangerous. And they will join girls in Africa who spend up to six hours each day walking to and from waterholes to collect water for their families. • The book includes a world map that pinpoints where every story comes from. Filled with beautiful, detailed photos, this book is a fascinating and eye-opening exploration of how we use water.

In this delightful, colorful book, readers will discover some of the games that are played by kids around the world-from stickball to tug-of-war, wheelbarrow rides to rolling tires. • Discover how children in many parts of Africa build their own bicycles from scraps of wood. • Learn how poverty is no barrier to play and join a soccer game played with a ball made from plastic bags, string, and rubber bands. • Join kite flyers in Afghanistan and Baka children in Cameroon who create homemade swings using long vines that grow from the rain forest trees! • The book includes a world map that pinpoints where every story comes from. Supported with stunning, detailed photos, this book is an engaging nonfiction read and a fascinating exploration of play and toys.

Would you like to eat termites and giant land snails? Perhaps you might enjoy some durian fruit that tastes like a mixture of custard, cheese, and onion? Or maybe you would enjoy a cup of warming tea made from water, tea leaves, salt, and yak milk butter? In this beautiful photographic book, young readers will meet children from around the world and discover the many different foods they eat. • Readers will learn all about colorful bento boxes that Japanese moms make for their children's school lunches. • They will join an Indian family to make homemade sweets for Diwali and join Muslim families for a special iftar meal during Ramadan. • And, in a sensitively handled section, they will learn that many children around the world have nothing to eat. • The book includes a world map that pinpoints where every story in the book comes from. Supported with stunning, detailed photos, this book is an engaging nonfiction read and a fascinating exploration of different foods, traditions, and customs.

In this beautiful photographic book, young readers will meet children from around the world and go to school with them in their many different types of classrooms. • Discover a single room Maasai classroom in the Tanzanian desert that has a dirt floor and walls made from branches. • Visit a school on a remote Scottish island that has just four pupils! • Join Japanese students as they practice their monthly earthquake drill, and meet nomad children in Kenya who borrow books from a library that travels on the back of a camel. • The book includes a world map that pinpoints where every story comes from. In this book, young readers will learn that while classrooms can look very different, all over the world kids enjoy going to school to learn to read, do math, enjoy art, and take part in activities such as singing, dancing, and making music. Supported with stunning, detailed photos, this book is an engaging nonfiction read and a fascinating exploration of school life.

From reindeer-skin coats and boots worn in Siberia, to colorful hats and jackets woven from alpaca wool in the Andes Mountains of Peru, young readers will quickly discover that not everyone buys their clothes online or from a store! In this beautiful photographic book, young readers will meet children and their families from around the world and learn about the clothes they wear, both for everyday use and for special occasions • Readers will get to see clothes such as school uniforms from Brazil, Indian saris worn for work and special occasions, traditional Native American clothes, and colorful Maasai robes from Kenya. • They will also discover the incredible headdresses worn by Long Horn Miao girls and women in China that are made from wooden horns and their ancestors' hair. • The book includes a world map that pinpoints where every story in the book comes from. Supported by stunning photographs, the accessible text will help kids find out about the incredible variety of clothes, shoes, hats, and jewelry that are worn worldwide.

Perhaps you take the bus to school or ride in a car. But imagine traveling to school on your family's horse and cart or paddling to school in a canoe. This book explores the many different ways in which children and their families travel during their everyday lives. • Discover what it's like to ride to school in a tiny rickshaw bus in India that's powered by the driver riding a bike or pulling the bus on foot! • Join a family of Sami reindeer herders who travel from A to B on snowmobiles. • Ride on the world's fastest train in China or zoom across the snow in Greenland on a sled pulled by powerful dogs. • The book includes a world map that pinpoints where every story comes from. Supported with stunning, detailed photos, this book is an engaging nonfiction read and a fascinating exploration of transportation around the world.