A School Like Mine: A Unique Celebration of Schools Around the World

by D.K. Publishing, Caroline Bingham, Penny Smith, et al.

Book Overview

Explore schools around the world through the eyes of more than 40 students in Children Just Like Me: A School Like Mine . A refreshed edition of a DK classic, Children Just Like Me: A School Like Mine... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0756629136
• ISBN13: 9780756629137
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 10.2" x 12.1"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7

Customer Reviews

A child's life around the world

This book shows pictures of children from all over the world. There are several big pictures and 7-10 smaller photos included. The pictures include a photo of the outside of the school, sometimes the inside, games children play, sometimes inside the children's home, favorite toys and some pages include a Day-to-day and a quote from the child featured. The book is divided by contents - Americas, Africa, Europe, Asia and Australasia. Americas include: Peru - Maria from Pampacancha(Andes region), Brazil - Yasmin - Rio de Janeiro & Ana - Rio, Mexico - Jucari lives in Mexico City & Carmen lives in Aguascalientes Mexico. United States has 3 children - Emmy - Houston Texas, Ian - Boston and Sander is from California. Canada Lukasi lives in Quebec. Africa includes: South Africa - Fundi & Sibusiso, Safaa from Cairo, Semira - Ethiopia and Susan from Botswana. Europe: Francis lives in London England, Michael - Ireland, Anna - Paris France, Flora - Belgium, Isabelle - Netherlands, Soren - Denmark, Chiara - Italy, Fanny - Germany and Marek from Poland and France) - Twins Alvaro and Nancho from Spain. Asia: Ksenia - St. Petersburg Russian Federation, Alexei - north of Russian Federation, Aysima - Turkey, Dana - Jordan, Yotam - Israel, Deepak, Umandhara & Renna are all from India. From China - Xinpei (southwest China), Yiting Shanghai, Jiyu - Zhua Jia Jiano (west of Shanghai) and Hassa from Mongolia. South Korea - Sun-Woo, Japan - Momona, East Timor is where Junivio lives. Autralasia: Gapirri from Australia and Parekaawa from New Zealand. This book shows that children around the world doing things most children do and are familiar with school lunches, uniforms or no school uniforms, classes, chores at home, homework, playing games or outside and being with friends. As well as other things children might not have to do here in the United States like having to walk 5 miles to school and back each day, signs on doors that say this is a gun-free zone (South Africa), or having to eat school lunches nothing from home is allowed, serving classmates lunch (Japan) and growing food for school and home (Mexico)to name a few things that are different. When you purchase this books .75 goes to UNICEF for a School-in-a-box. A School-in-a-box contains posters, book bag, pencils, giant compass, adhesive tape, safety scissors, large scissors, measuring tape, pens, paintbrush, pencil sharpener, drawing slate, blackboard eraser, colored chalk, exercise books, crayons, white chalk, rulers, teaching clock and triangle, blackboard paint all inside a lockable metal box so that children who are in a temporary learning space set up by UNICEF can be in a safe and child-friendly place where children are free to learn. Each box has enough supplies for a teacher and 80 students. To learn more about a box full of hope School-in-a-Box you can go to www.unicef.org

schoool in other countries

A great book...helps children to understand how privileged they are to have such a good school system in this country....helps them recognize that everyone is not as fortunate as they are. Gives them an awareness of how tenacious children in other cultures are, how they long for an education and the lengths some have to go to get educated. A good look into children's lives around the world

awesome companion

Wonderful companion to A Life Like Mine. Great book to keep out to help children keep perspective.

Nice book

I love this book and my students love this book, but my students 3rd graders told me it could've went a bit more indepth about each school. Also, I teach 24 students. 22 are Black, 1 is Native American, and 1 is white. They all from the hood (violent, gang ridden area). Not 1 of the American children in this book was a child of color and/or came from a bad area. I like how they did suburb, country, city but all children seemed white middle class. What about white poor or black middle class or black poor or Native American? Otherwise I really recommend this book : )