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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
kristi_starr35's review against another edition
4.0
This book introduces the reader to seven boys and girls (ages 7-11) from around the world: India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Peru, Russia, and Uganda. Each child shares snapshots of their typical day, including what they eat for each meal, how they travel, what a typical school day entails, how they address their teachers, and how they enjoy spending free time. While differences can be noted among cultures, they share many more similarities. The book provides a window into very different cultures, but highlights how we are all alike.
Illustrations throughout the book are based on pictures shared by the students and their families. A glossary identifies and defines words underlined throughout the text.
Young readers will enjoy learning about children from other cultures and learn to appreciate diversity. No judgements are made; information is reported in short, factual statements. The text would also be appropriate for students in upper elementary or middle school studying human geography.
Illustrations throughout the book are based on pictures shared by the students and their families. A glossary identifies and defines words underlined throughout the text.
Young readers will enjoy learning about children from other cultures and learn to appreciate diversity. No judgements are made; information is reported in short, factual statements. The text would also be appropriate for students in upper elementary or middle school studying human geography.
bgprincipessa's review against another edition
4.0
Great illustrations, diversity of nationality but not gender/sexual orientation/non-nuclear families. The definitions of underlined words at the back are enlightening to the story, but the flipping back and forth really takes away from the overall effect.
the_lobrarian's review against another edition
- Illustrations are rendered digitally
mallen8509's review against another edition
5.0
This is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids From Around the World is another book we read!
This book follows REAL kids from Italy, Japan, Uganda, Russia, India, Peru, and Iran.
We get to see what they eat, how they learn, how they help around the house, and more.
My students learned that they have many things in common with kids around the world.
This book follows REAL kids from Italy, Japan, Uganda, Russia, India, Peru, and Iran.
We get to see what they eat, how they learn, how they help around the house, and more.
My students learned that they have many things in common with kids around the world.
amyjreads's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
Love everything about this! Engaging pictures and text for various ages and a great resource for the humanities/geography shelf.
dormilonaluna's review against another edition
5.0
This is a gorgeous book that shows kids a comparison of how life is lived around the world. It's particularly helpful for American kids who may not have experienced other cultures yet--the drawings are beautiful, and the sentences are simple enough they can be easily read. I absolutely recommend this to anyone and everyone!
summerashley's review against another edition
4.0
Definitely amazing text for teaching diversity and cultural acceptance around the world. Following 7 kiddos from Japan, Iran, Peru, Uganda, Italy, Russia, and India, you can see a "Day in the Life." For a reader who is looking for non-fiction, it may be a little much as each page is filled corner to corner with illustrations that are very blocky and are very wordy on some of the descriptions of each part.
shighley's review against another edition
4.0
To me, reading a book like this is much better than students simply doing "research" on different countries. Personalizing it with real children (and the revelation of seeing their photographs at the end) makes it much more memorable. There is the necessary disclaimer, though, that these children are not representative of all in their country. (That is true most of the time, anyway).
One of the first things students might ask: why do many of the children have a name that is different from what they are called? I also wondered why so many of them have dinner so late at night.
I would like to have had even more comparisons, and even more background into how LaMothe ending up using these families in particular.
One of the first things students might ask: why do many of the children have a name that is different from what they are called? I also wondered why so many of them have dinner so late at night.
I would like to have had even more comparisons, and even more background into how LaMothe ending up using these families in particular.