This is How We Do It

This book is so interesting - both my six and three year olds are fascinated! Love the look into other cultures and the illustrations are beautiful. And, importantly, I enjoy reading it too.

This is a captivating and eye-opening journey into the lives of children from diverse cultures around the globe. 🌟 Through vibrant illustrations and engaging storytelling, Lamothe beautifully showcases the unique daily routines, traditions, and joys of seven real children from different countries. 🌏👧👦 From Japan to Italy, from India to Uganda, each page offers a glimpse into the rich tapestry of humanity, celebrating both our differences and our shared experiences. 💖 This book not only educates young readers about cultural diversity but also fosters empathy, understanding, and a sense of global interconnectedness. 🌟🌎 It's a wonderful reminder that while our lives may be different, we are all part of the same global family. 🌟✨ Thank you, Matt Lamothe, for creating such a beautiful and important book that inspires curiosity, empathy, and appreciation for our world's diverse cultures. 📖🌍

I bought this book for my grandson and he loves it so much I bought one for my nephew. The book is a learning tool for children to help them understand how children from around the world live. I definitely recommend this book!

I love this book--and my kids like it too. It goes beyond the ordinary country comparisons (for example, only one of the kids lives in a capitol city, so you don't just get "Jean lives in Paris and eats baguettes") and it's full of the nitty-gritty details that fascinate kids. My son is amazed that kids in Peru drink coffee. The families are economically as well as ethnically diverse, but the book doesn't make a big deal about how "diverse" it is. It describes without comment families with 8 children who sleep next to each other on boards and families with two children who have their own rooms, families that eat basically the same thing three meals per day, and families that don't. We have the Kindle version but I'd like to get paper version some day because the illustrations are rich and beautifully colored.

I had this book on my wish list for quite awhile and went back and forth as to whether I'd get it or not. I did get it and wish I had got it sooner. We don't have a lot of money to travel but we are being very diligent in trying to raise our kids with a broad understanding of the world we live in and realistic ideas of what life is like in other countries for other kids. My 6 year old son and 5 year old daughter LOVE LOVE LOVE this book!! ...and we have a lot of good kids' books in our home library. They flipped the pages back and forth a lot to see the map/kids' profiles when we first got it but now they have the entire book pretty much memorized and still can't get enough of it. My daughter especially loves it enough to want to sleep with it. She saw me writing this review, saw the little picture of the book and said "There's my book!!! That's my favorite book!!"

Great book describing different children around the world and their everyday lives! It doesn’t read like a typical reading book (front to back) but it requires the reader to constantly flip the pages to remember which child each description belongs to. My little one loved the last page where it showed actual photos of the children with their families.

I LOVE THIS BOOK. Just putting it my classroom library next year will provide an excellent opportunity for students to develop social studies concepts. Meanwhile, I'm enjoying it myself! It is absolutely beautiful, and worth going back to again and again. (Those are the best classroom books!) In addition to the detailed artwork depicting how each child spends each part of his or her day, the book includes a photo of each child and their families, and a map to show where they live. I like the author's note and biographical information at the end. He tells how he compiled the information for making the book, and he outlines his own day. He is almost another character, an inspiring one! Thanks, Matt, for the writing idea for my students!

An awesome book! Every kid needs to read this. It teaches them that there are other kids just like them living in other parts of the world.

My 4 year old LOVES this book! It shows images of 7 children from all over the world in their daily routine! What they eat, where they live, how they dress, how they play, their family members etc... It's wonderfully relatable to my daughter!

This is a perfect picture led book for school aged children. The fantastic illustrations show daily life of a selection of seven to eleven year olds from around the world (Iran, Italy, India, Japan, Peru, Russia and Uganda). We can compare different buildings the children live in, what they eat, what they wear, how they travel to school, what their class rooms look like and how they relax after school. This book is perfect for helping young school aged children to discover how children around the world live. The main text is short and simple, so this book would work for age 5+ (especially if being read to). Just when I thought that this was a wonderful work of fiction based on general facts, at the end of the book are photographs of the children from the book with their families. Wonderful stuff!

Compré este libro para mi hijo de 3 año y le gusta bastante (aunque creo que es todavía un poco pequeño para el contenido). El libro narra la vida de 7 niños de diferentes países del mundo (Italia, Japón, Irán, India, Peru, Uganda y Rusia) a lo larga de un día. Proporcia información sobre lo que comen, de sus hogares, del colegio, de sus actividades diarias, de cómo duermen...Las ilustraciones son muy bonitas. El único punto negativo que le encuentro es que todas las familias son biparentales con 2-3 niñ@s y hubiera estado bien un poco más de diversidad (una familia monoparental, una familia con un hijo único...etc).

This book is great! My daughter absolutely loves it, we read it over and over and over again.

This is the one book that we reach for over and over since many years.