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32 pp.
| Charlesbridge |
February, 1999 |
TradeISBN 0-88106-841-1$$15.95
(3)
K-3
Kids will be kids, no matter where they live, claims this celebration of the universality of childhood experience. Brief sentences describing activities (playing ball, sharing time with family) are accompanied by color photographs of children from countries around the world. Text and photos share an infectious joyfulness that tempers what could have been a heavy-handed message.