Children Just Like Me

Full Title: Children Just Like Me-A Unique Celebration of Children Around the World.

Written by: Barnabas and Anabel Kindersley

DK Publishing, 1995

Genre: Children's nonfiction

Reading Level: 6-11

80 pages

This encyclopedia type book is a nonfiction book that shares the stories of children all around. It tells of different children's daily life; their clothing, schooling, food, family, and other interesting facts that make them different. It starts out with a short introduction about the Americas as an intro to the different places all the children come from. Then it jumps right in to telling the children's stories. It covers children from many different places, like Oscar from Bolivia, to Taylor from New York and all the way to Erdene to Mongolia. It gives several interesting details of the children's lives. For example one of my favorites was Esta from Tanzania. Her page tells about her family, their tribes traditions, her school and favorite subjects, all the way down to a description of her sneakers that she wears to school and church.

I would recommend this to any and all children who seem interested in how they are different from other children, who are interested in the world, and any other child who enjoys learning.

I believe that in no way could this be a controversial book.

I really enjoyed this book, i thought that it was brilliantly put together, and can really be something that children will love. I loved the personal stories and connections, and the pictures.

The only thing i wasn't crazy about was the amount of information on each page, i think that for some children it would be quite a bit overwhelming.

My rating: 4 out of 5