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40 pp.
| Kids Can
| April, 2015
|
TradeISBN 978-1-77138-047-8$18.95
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Alice Feagan.
Fourteen real schoolchildren around the world each give a snapshot of a typical school day: Marta speaks Amharic with the seventy other students in her Ethiopian classroom; Johannes attends a boarding school in Germany and learns to sail; Shanika attends a Cree First Nations school in Canada. Both the narrative and collage illustrations are welcoming; informative endnotes encourage readers' curiosity. Glos.