A favorite in classrooms, libraries, and homes, Children Just Like Me is a comprehensive view of international cultures, exploring diverse backgrounds from Argentina to New Zealand to China to Israel. With this brand new edition, children will learn about their peers around the world through engaging photographs and understandable text laid out in DK's distinctive style.
Highlighting 36 different countries, Children Just Like Me profiles 44 children and their daily lives. From rural farms to busy cities to riverboats, this celebration of children around the world shows the many ways children are different and the many ways they are the same, no matter where they live.
Meet Bolat, an eight-year-old from Kazakhstan who likes to cycle, play with his pet dogs, and play the dromba; Joaquin from New Jersey who enjoys reading and spending time with his family, and whose favorite food is bacon; or Yaroslav from Moscow who likes to make robots. Daily routines, stories of friends and family, and dreams for the future are spoken directly from the children themselves, making the content appropriate and interesting to draw in young readers.
To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of this special project, all-new photography, maps, and facts give unique insight to children's lives in our world today showing their homes, food, outfits, schools, families, and hobbies.
A passport to a celebratory journey around the world, Children Just Like Me is perfect for children who are curious about the children of the world and their stories.
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 looks at different countries and cultures around the globe and reveals the lives of children as they learn at school. Broaden children's views of the world and learn about the daily lives of real students from places near and far, from Australia to South Korea. Where do children in Jordan learn? What subjects do they study in Egypt?
Through the shared experiences of a school routine, Children Just Like Me: A School Like Mine highlights the differences and similarities between international schools, using school activities, classrooms, meals, and playtime in photographs and easy-to-understand text. From Africa to the Americas, students explain their daily routines in their own words and talk about what makes their schools special to them. Children can learn about their international peers through these engaging photographic stories of students.
Children Just Like Me: A School Like Mine takes readers on an international trip to see how children around the world learn. Find out what makes school different in other countries, and learn what makes them just the same.
本套丛书以介绍人文知识为主题，为读者分别阐释了世界各地的孩子及世界各地的学校情况。丛书内容丰富，图文结合，从衣食住行的角度全面展示了世界各地少年儿童的日常生活。趣味性高，容易引起同龄段读者的共鸣，有利于孩子增长见闻，认知全球风俗文化。
其中，《DK像我一样的孩子》以全球各地区十岁左右的少年儿童为主，分别介绍了他们的家庭成员、居住环境、交通工具、语言文字、传统服装、饮食结构等内容，直观且全面地展示了不同地区孩子的生活异同，以此为读者打开了了解世界人文风俗的大门。
《DK像我一样的孩子——世界各地的学校》介绍了世界各地的孩子们所在的学校，着重展示了他们的校园生活，包括校园环境、课程设置、课余活动等内容，为读者们提供了认知全球儿童受教育情况的百科图书。
Book Titles:
Children Just Like Me DK像我一样的孩子
A School Like Mine DK像我一样的孩子——世界各地的学校
Hardcover, Simplified Chinese characters, 80 pages/book, 12.1"x10.1"
