Children Just Like Me
10 best books like Children Just Like Me (Barnabas Kindersley): Maps and Globes, A Street Through Time, Bread, Bread, Bread, Tut's Mummy: Lost...And Found, People, Material World: A Global Family Portrait, Mrs. Armitage: Queen of the Road, Peter the Great, The Greek News, Museum ABC
| Author | Jack Knowlton |
| ISBN | 0064460495 |
This comprehensive look at geography and the environment, Maps and Globes, can take you anywhere—to the top of the tallest mountain on earth or the bottom of the deepest ocean. Maps tell you about the world: where various countries are located, where the jungles and deserts are, even how to find your...
| Author | Anne Millard |
| ISBN | 0751355356 |
* Follow the life of a street, seeing it develop from a small Stone Age camp - changing over thousands of years - into a bustling riverside thoroughfare in the heart of a metropolis * This beautifully illustrated book brings fourteen key periods in history to life * You'll find out how people lived long...
| Author | Ann Morris |
| ISBN | 0688122752 |
Bread is a food enjoyed by people in all parts of the world. Its many shapes, sizes, textures, and colors are as varied as the people who eat it. This photographic round-the-world tour provides a glimpse into the rich variety of world cultures, as well as an informative look at an important food that everyone...
| Author | Judy Donnelly |
| ISBN | 0394891899 |
• This book is a great choice for beginners, and tells the story of the death of Tutankhamen. This is a great step into getting children excited to read books that are nonfiction,
• Teachers may use this for History, English
• Grades K-3
• Individual students may read this during...
We still own the battered beaten-up copy of this homage to humanity that our two daughters returned to so often that it needed patching up with a judicious amount of sticky tape. A wholehearted celebration of diversity, it devotes pages to appearance, homes, food, clothes, pastimes, jobs, pets, feasts...
Material World: A Global Family Portrait
| Author | Peter Menzel |
| ISBN | 0871564378 |
In an unprecedented effort, sixteen of the world’s foremost photographers traveled to thirty nations around the globe to live for a week with families that were statistically average for that nation. At the end of each visit, photographer and family collaborated on a remarkable portrait of the...
| Author | Quentin Blake |
| ISBN | 0224070185 |
I'm very familiar with Quentin Blake's illustrations of Roald Dahl, but I'm embarrased to say I wasn't aware of his other works.
A quick check of his website reveals that he has been involved in more than 300 books - only 27 of which were written by Roald Dahl and a full 35 which were written and illustrated...
A very short book about Peter the Great - the Tsar who drug Russia (kicking and screaming) into more modern times. This is a children's book, so it is not very detailed, but the artwork is beautiful and there is enough information to whet the appetite about a historical figure whose name I knew, but not much...
| Author | Anton Powell |
| ISBN | 0763603406 |
"These entertaining, deftly organized books will make terrific light-hearted additions to cirriculum units on ancient civilizations." — Publishers Weekly
Stop the presses! What if ancient civilizations had daily newspapers? And they were amusing and compellingly informative?...
| Author | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| ISBN | 0316071706 |
Museum ABC introduces more than one hundred works art--using the alphabet!
This unique alphabet book features four works of art from different cultures and periods for each letter of the alphabet. Simple words matched with intriguing illustrations provide an opportunity for endless exploration....
| Author | Mark Haddon |
| ISBN | 0001981625 |
Leading up to the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing, the excitement of this momentous event is captured through the eyes of a child in this glorious picture book, reformatted with a new cover design. Mark Haddon is the prize-winning, highly-acclaimed author of the best-selling novel 'The...
| Author | Judy Hindley |
| ISBN | 0763604402 |
Peekaboo! From a blink and a wink of their eyes, to a wiggle of their shoulders, to a stomp of their feet, a group of lovable toddlers joyfully explores the many ways to use their bodies. Readers are invited to join in the fun of learning all the moves our bodies are able to make--and how, for instance, lips...
| Author | Barbara Kerley |
| ISBN | 1426304617 |
One World, One Day uses exquisite, moving photographs and Barbara Kerley’s poetic text to convey a simple yet profound concept: we are one global family. This is a sophisticated concept book, presented as an elegant picture book with contributions from top international photographers.
This...
| Author | David J. Smith |
| ISBN | 1550747797 |
The 2nd Edition of the best-selling book which has sold over 400 000 copies in 17 languages -- updated with new content and insights about the world's people. First published to wide acclaim in 2002, this eye-opening book has since become a classic, promoting "world-mindedness" by imagining the world's...
| Author | Joan Sandin |
| ISBN | 0064441008 |
Summary/Annotation: This is a book about a boy named Carl Erik and his family who lived in Sweden. The setting is in 1868. Times aren't so great because in the summer they lack rain and in the winter they lack food. They are facing horrible times without food and money. They receive a letter from their uncle...
| Author | Leonard Everett Fisher |
| ISBN | 0689801785 |
1. This book gives an historic account of why the Great wall of China was built. It gives fun fact and many pictures that show the hard work it took to build and just how big it is. We learn that China built the wall to keep the invading Mongols out of China.
2. For grades 2-4
3. I would use this with world...
| Author | Jean Fritz |
| ISBN | 0698116380 |
The first chapter very briefly describes the history of exploration before Prince Henry of Portugal financed expeditions to sail down the west coast of Africa. He was angling for a trade route to Asia that Portugal could control and profit from. Progress was slow, but as the title informs you, it set...
A Life Like Mine: How Children Live Around the World
| Author | UNICEF |
| ISBN | 0756618037 |
After ten years of study and consultation, UNICEF, the premier organization devoted to the care and welfare of the world's children, published the results of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Using these tenets as a base, A Life Like Mine profiles children from all over the globe leading their...
| Author | Anne Civardi |
| ISBN | 0860208648 |
This entertaining book is all about the work people do in different sorts of jobs. Set on an imaginary island called Banilla, it introduces a crowd of interesting people and shows some of the events that happen in their daily lives. There is Mayor Naze, the mayor of Banilla; Ivor Hose, the fire chief and...
Women in the Material World
| Author | Faith D'Aluisio |
| ISBN | 0871563983 |
This book is why the printed hard copy book will never disappear. Great photographs and reporting of the different countries and lives of women working, mothering, and home keeping in an ever-changing world.
I really admired the matter-of-factness of the women whose lives I thought would...
| Author | Joan Sweeney |
| ISBN | 0517885573 |
Illustrated in full color. In this playful introduction to maps and geography, step by simple step, a young girl shows readers herself on a map of her room, her room on the map of her house, her house on the map of her street--all the way to her country on a map of the world. Once the reader is familiar with the...
The Children's Illustrated Bible
| Author | Selina Shirley Hastings |
| ISBN | 0756609356 |
The best bible for children and adults. Devoid of all complications (mostly), theoretical jargon, and long, boring passages. I picked up this book again because it was a book that enchanted me as a child. I wanted to read a bible, and had been unable to read it front to back. I begun thinking at a small group...
