Photographs and brief text show people all over the world at work.
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Somewhere In The World Right Now: (Reading Rainbow Book)
Describes what is happening in different places around the world at a particular time.
Play
A series of photographs shows that everyone likes to stretch the mind, body, and imagination in play whether alone or with others including family, friends, and even animals.
Teamwork
Discusses teamwork and how team members working together as a group cooperate to get the job done.
Weddings
A picture book provides a simple introduction to the things that often happen at a wedding.
I Love Birthdays
In this sweet, engaging picture book, Ollie celebrates all the things he loves about birthdays.
Cat And Rat: The Legend Of The Chinese Zodiac
To select the animals of the zodiac, the Jade Emperor has called for a race between all the animals, in an elegant new twist on an old folktale filled with stunning artwork.
Journey Home
Mai returns to Vietnam, the land of her mother’s birth, to discover both a new country and something about herself.
Good Morning China
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF CHINA. Playing, exercising, resting under a lotus tree: the things happening in an ordinary park on an ordinary morning. Early morning, and a community is coming to life. Children are playing, an artist is painting, people are exercising and meditating. Each page in this lovely picure book presents a snap-shot, and a final foldout spread collects them all to give a panorama of daily life in China. Hu yong Yi’s paintings are saturated with color and rich in life and feeling.
Shadow
An imaginative girl plays with shadows in the attic. Items and actions take on lives of their own, and malignant forces appear. But the heroine prevails: Animals join forces, friendships are formed and all ends well come suppertime.