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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. These visually appealing and multicultural books are uniquely informative and fun, too. Includes index.What's so interesting about shoes? Everything! The style of a shoe reflects the value of its culture.
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
January 1, 1950
Publisher
Prentice-Hall (Canada)
Pages
32
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780516481890