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Lark Bookstore
All the below titles are available at Lark Bookstore

A Life Like Mine:  How Children Live Around the World
(No Author listed)
DK Publishing, Inc. 2002
New York, New York
First American Edition
ISBN:  0-7566-1803-7
*In association with UNICEF

A School Like MineA Unique Celebration of Schools Around the World
By Penny Smith and Zahavit Shalev
DK Publishing, Inc. 2007
New York, New York
First American Edition
ISBN:  978-0-7566-2913-7
*In association with UNICEF 

A True Book:  Asia
By David Petersen
Children’s Press 1998
Danbury, Connecticut
ISBN:  0-516-26371-4
*large print, written for young students

A True Book:  Canada
By Elaine Landau
Children’s Press 2000
Danbury, Connecticut
ISBN:  0-516-27021-4
*large print, written for young students

Children Just Like Me:  Celebrations!
By Barnabas and Anabel Kindersley
DK Publishing, Inc. 1997
New York, New York
First American Edition
ISBN:  0-7894-2027-9
*In association with UNICEF

Children Just Like Me:  A Unique Celebration of Children Around the World
By Barnabas and Anabel Kindersley
DK Publishing, Inc. 1995
New York, New York
ISBN:  0-7894-0201-7
*In association with UNICEF

Easter Around the World
By Shannon Knudsen
Millbrook Press, Inc. 2005, 2006
Minneapolis, Minnesota
ISBN-13:  978-1-57505-655-5 (library)
ISBN-10:  1-57505-655-0         (library)
ISBN-13:  978-1-57505-765-1 (paperback)
ISBN-10:  1-57505-765-4         (paperback)
*representing Sweden, Ethiopia, Russia, Egypt, Mexico, Philippines,  
 Colombia, and Germany

If the World Were a Village:  A Book about the World's People
By David J. Smith
Kids Can Press Ltd., 2002 (information updated 2007)
Tonawanda, New York
ISBN-13:  978-1-55074-779-9
ISBN-10:  1-55074-779-7
*real facts turned into a story about a global village of 100 citizens, great
 teaching tool, reading level age 10+ 

Just So Thankful
By Mercer Mayer
HarperFestival 2006
New York, New York
ISBN-13:  978-0-06-053950-4
*A Little Critter book, teaches children to appreciate what they have

One World, Many Religions:  The Ways We Worship
By Mary Pope Osborne
Alfred A. Knopf 1996
New York, New York
ISBN:  0-679-83930-5 (trade)
ISBN:  0-679-93930-X (library binding)
*representing Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism

People
By Peter Spier
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. 1980
New York
ISBN:  0-385-24469-X
*includes minor nudity to represent cultures that do not wear clothes

School Days Around the World
By Catherine Chambers
DK Publishing 2007
New York
First American Edition
ISBN:  978-0-7566-2548-1
(Level 3:  Reading Alone)
*representing Australia, Japan, India, Ghana, England, United States, & Peru

Songs from the Loom:  A Navajo Girl Learns to Weave
By Monty Roessel
Lerner Publications Company 1995
Minneapolis, Minnesota
*includes information about Navajo history and culture, age 10+

Three Wishes:  Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak
By Deborah Ellis
Groundwood Books 2004, 2007
Toronto, Canada
ISBN-13:  978-0-88899-645-9
ISBN 0:  0-88899-645-4
*true stories, contains some strong viewpoints


 



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