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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 Mine: A 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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