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K-3True Book series.
An informative text is coupled with crisp photographs of a country rarely treated in books for children. History, geography, and economics are the strong points here, but religion and some cultural aspects of life are also highlighted. A sense of the mixture of the traditional and the modern aspects of contemporary life in this religious Islamic country is conveyed; the position of women and girls isn't really described. Bib., glos., ind.