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Overview
By exploring and comparing everyday objects and rituals, this series helps young readers understand the similarities and differences that exist among societies, as well as the role that everyday objects play in reflecting the inner life and culture of people from around the world. Each book's design incorporates four-color photos, cut-outs, and silhouettes that mingle with short text blocks, making this multicultural series not just visually appealing, but uniquely informative, too.What's so interesting about shoes? Everything! The style of a shoe reflects the value of its culture... what people believe in and how they approach life.
Editorials
School Library Journal
Gr 1-3Two highly pictorial overviews of hair and shoe styles ranging from ancient to modern times, in legend and in fact. Readers are told that in addition to individual preference, hairstyles and shoes can reflect environment, culture, politics, religious beliefs, social status, and ceremonial customs. The good-quality photographs and reproductions, most of which are in full color, have been skillfully integrated with the equally intriguing texts. Short, informative captions appear along with more detailed explanations. Although contents page, glossary, and index enhance the titles' research value, their lively pace and unusual photos encourage leisure reading as well. Badt's objectivity clearly reveals that regardless of a ``World of Difference,'' we are all equally similar.Claudia Cooper, Ft. Stockton Independent School District, TXBook Details
Published
March 1, 1995
Publisher
Franklin Watts Ltd
Pages
32
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780516081892