Children Just Like Me by: Barnabas and Anabel Kindersley

Genre: Non-fiction
Publisher: DK Children
Copyright Date: 1995
Number of Pages: 80
Reading Level: 9-12

Summary:
This is a book about children from all over the world. Each page is dedicated to a different child from a different country in the world. It includes kids from all continents except for Antarctica. It has descriptions of kids from as North as the Arctic Circle in Finland and Canada to as South as children from New Zealand and Australia. On each children's description, it includes their name, where they are from, descriptions of their families and friends. It also includes their favorite foods, their school, their church, their home, and stuff like what type of shoes and clothes they wear, if they have any pets, their hobbies.... Everything! It is a great depiction and example of the culture of the countries that these kids come from.

Who would benefit from reading this book/who would I recommend this book to?
This book would be great for kids who are learning about world history. They would benefit from reading about the different cultures around the world, especially from the point of view of children their own age. This is a book that should be in every classroom, for every teacher to use when talking about different countries of the world.

What problems/conflicts could this book potentially cause?
I don't think that there are any problems with this book, especially because it is informational.

My reaction:
I LOVE THIS BOOK! what a neat idea. For real. I had so much fun reading about all of these children. I learned so many things about the world. It made me realize how lucky we are here in America and how spoiled we are. We take too much for granted. There are so many kids who live in little shacks or huts. But, the biggest part of it is, these kids are happy. The pictures are of them with huge grins on their faces and you can tell they just love their culture it is really quite amazing.