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This Is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids from Around the World by Matt Lamothe
goodem9199's review against another edition
4.0
This book ALMOST had it all. However, I was put off by a book about diversity only including families with 2.5 children and a mother and father in the home. What about single parents, only-child homes, same-sex parents, and multi-generational households? Seems to be an obvious mistake.
evaphoenix's review against another edition
4.0
This book is a window into the daily lives of seven actual kids in different places all over the world. They speak different languages, eat different foods, and get to school different ways; some of the differences are based on national culture or geography, and some are urban/rural differences or personal ones. Kids will find plenty of points of shared experience too. This book is done much better than other books I've seen of the same type, following real families and laying their everyday specifics out side by side.
gayathiri_rajendran's review against another edition
4.0
This Is How We Do It is an excellent book which shows the daily lives of seven children who live in different countries across the world.
The author shows the activities of the children in a typical day.We get an insight into the family,foood,culture,education,recreation etc.The illustrations are pleasant to look at and my favorite part of the book was the food and various games the children played.
The end of the book has photographs of the real families this book is based on.That was a nice touch since I assumed that this was a work of fiction in the beginning.However,I would have liked to see a more diverse family set up in this book since it is quite common in some countries for several family members to live under the same roof as a joint family.We see only nuclear families in the book.
This book is apt for kindergarten and elementary school students and stresses the fact that even though we may live in different parts of the world,we are similar in human nature.
The author shows the activities of the children in a typical day.We get an insight into the family,foood,culture,education,recreation etc.The illustrations are pleasant to look at and my favorite part of the book was the food and various games the children played.
The end of the book has photographs of the real families this book is based on.That was a nice touch since I assumed that this was a work of fiction in the beginning.However,I would have liked to see a more diverse family set up in this book since it is quite common in some countries for several family members to live under the same roof as a joint family.We see only nuclear families in the book.
This book is apt for kindergarten and elementary school students and stresses the fact that even though we may live in different parts of the world,we are similar in human nature.
90sinmyheart's review against another edition
4.0
Recommend that parents read the glossary at the back first. Cute read, but do wish there was representation of families other than nuclear/heterosexual/2 or more kids.
staciam's review against another edition
4.0
I would have liked the explanation at the end to be at the beginning!
pacifickle's review against another edition
4.0
AWESOME - can't wait to have this in my library collection for kids to check out!
amibunk's review against another edition
4.0
This book is a winner. While I was reading it to my 10 year old, my husband and older daughter started listening in- if that doesn't spell interesting I don't know what would.
The over all concept is delightful: the book follows 7 real children from all over the world through an ordinary day. We learned what people in Japan, Peru, Iran, Russia, India, Italy, and Uganda might eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, what they wore to school and how they got there, what type of dwelling they lived in and how they slept. While it's deceptively simple, we were all engrossed. I highly recommend reading it.
The over all concept is delightful: the book follows 7 real children from all over the world through an ordinary day. We learned what people in Japan, Peru, Iran, Russia, India, Italy, and Uganda might eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, what they wore to school and how they got there, what type of dwelling they lived in and how they slept. While it's deceptively simple, we were all engrossed. I highly recommend reading it.