A review by shighley
This Is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids from Around the World by Matt Lamothe

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.