This Is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids from around the World (Easy Reader Books, Children Around the World Books, Preschool Prep Books)

This is a captivating and eye-opening journey into the lives of children from diverse cultures around the globe. 🌟 Through vibrant illustrations and engaging storytelling, Lamothe beautifully showcases the unique daily routines, traditions, and joys of seven real children from different countries. 🌏👧👦 From Japan to Italy, from India to Uganda, each page offers a glimpse into the rich tapestry of humanity, celebrating both our differences and our shared experiences. 💖 This book not only educates young readers about cultural diversity but also fosters empathy, understanding, and a sense of global interconnectedness. 🌟🌎 It's a wonderful reminder that while our lives may be different, we are all part of the same global family. 🌟✨ Thank you, Matt Lamothe, for creating such a beautiful and important book that inspires curiosity, empathy, and appreciation for our world's diverse cultures. 📖🌍

This book is so interesting - both my six and three year olds are fascinated! Love the look into other cultures and the illustrations are beautiful. And, importantly, I enjoy reading it too.

I LOVE THIS BOOK. Just putting it my classroom library next year will provide an excellent opportunity for students to develop social studies concepts. Meanwhile, I'm enjoying it myself! It is absolutely beautiful, and worth going back to again and again. (Those are the best classroom books!) In addition to the detailed artwork depicting how each child spends each part of his or her day, the book includes a photo of each child and their families, and a map to show where they live. I like the author's note and biographical information at the end. He tells how he compiled the information for making the book, and he outlines his own day. He is almost another character, an inspiring one! Thanks, Matt, for the writing idea for my students!

I bought this book for my grandson and he loves it so much I bought one for my nephew. The book is a learning tool for children to help them understand how children from around the world live. I definitely recommend this book!

I love this book--and my kids like it too. It goes beyond the ordinary country comparisons (for example, only one of the kids lives in a capitol city, so you don't just get "Jean lives in Paris and eats baguettes") and it's full of the nitty-gritty details that fascinate kids. My son is amazed that kids in Peru drink coffee. The families are economically as well as ethnically diverse, but the book doesn't make a big deal about how "diverse" it is. It describes without comment families with 8 children who sleep next to each other on boards and families with two children who have their own rooms, families that eat basically the same thing three meals per day, and families that don't. We have the Kindle version but I'd like to get paper version some day because the illustrations are rich and beautifully colored.

This book is very nice, beautiful pictures and I love that it shows different parts of life for 7 different children from around the world. However, I was disappointed by the format of the book. I found it confusing that each page shows everything from all seven kids lives. All seven outfits they wear, all seven different meals they eat. I wouldn't mind so much if the order on the page at least stayed the same throughout the book, but the order shown (by country) changes each time. I found it confusing to follow myself, so I doubt my kids who I was hoping to use the book with as a teaching tool will be able to follow very easily. I wish the book would just go one child/country at a time. I think it would be easier to compare and contrast that way.

Love this book! We got it for our daughter's 4th birthday, and she asks us to read it daily. I love that the author chose countries that most young American kids don't get a chance to learn much about, like Uganda, Peru, Iran. Some of the names and other things (food, games) are tough to pronounce, but it inspires us to look it up and learn a little more. And it's hard to remember the name of the child representing each country/culture as you go through the book, but I think you get the hang of it once you've read through it 10 times. The book goes through a day in the life of these kids, so we get to compare their lives (home, family, school, meals) with our own. I'm going to add something to each page for my daughter's story, so she can see how her life is similar or different in each part of the day.

I had this book on my wish list for quite awhile and went back and forth as to whether I'd get it or not. I did get it and wish I had got it sooner. We don't have a lot of money to travel but we are being very diligent in trying to raise our kids with a broad understanding of the world we live in and realistic ideas of what life is like in other countries for other kids. My 6 year old son and 5 year old daughter LOVE LOVE LOVE this book!! ...and we have a lot of good kids' books in our home library. They flipped the pages back and forth a lot to see the map/kids' profiles when we first got it but now they have the entire book pretty much memorized and still can't get enough of it. My daughter especially loves it enough to want to sleep with it. She saw me writing this review, saw the little picture of the book and said "There's my book!!! That's my favorite book!!"

I bought this for my friend's daughter's 2nd birthday and they both loved it! It really highlights the differences in lifestyles around the world, but more importantly, the similarities. The book also does a good job of saying this is just on example what a child in Italy eats for breakfast, or does for fun, but it isn't reflective of every Italian child. It's also cool to see real photos of the families near the end of the book. Right now the 2 year old loves having pages read to her, but I can see the book being used for years to come because there is a lot of cool info in it (and a glossary for unfamiliar terms).

My 4 year old LOVES this book! It shows images of 7 children from all over the world in their daily routine! What they eat, where they live, how they dress, how they play, their family members etc... It's wonderfully relatable to my daughter!

Compré este libro para mi hijo de 3 año y le gusta bastante (aunque creo que es todavía un poco pequeño para el contenido). El libro narra la vida de 7 niños de diferentes países del mundo (Italia, Japón, Irán, India, Peru, Uganda y Rusia) a lo larga de un día. Proporcia información sobre lo que comen, de sus hogares, del colegio, de sus actividades diarias, de cómo duermen...Las ilustraciones son muy bonitas. El único punto negativo que le encuentro es que todas las familias son biparentales con 2-3 niñ@s y hubiera estado bien un poco más de diversidad (una familia monoparental, una familia con un hijo único...etc).

This book is great! My daughter absolutely loves it, we read it over and over and over again.

This is the one book that we reach for over and over since many years.