This book is engaging and colorful resource for an early childhood classroom. It shows the town, city, suburb, and countryside, the states, the country and the continents. At the end it has a mini-quiz to assess learning.
I like this book very much. It explains where we live in relation to the rest of the world fairly well for children. The town,city, suburbs and country section could have been done a bit better, but a quick explanation to illustrate the child’s particular location is easy to do. I had a globe nearby when I read this book aloud to my children, which helped their understanding.
While the illustrations in the book were outstanding, the story of community and place in the book was clumsy and difficult for kids to follow. The author would define town as being the next step up from neighborhood, but then turn around and say, well unless you live in a suburb, or a city, or the country. The manner in which this information is presented is confusing. The format of the book is to start out with a child's room as a place they belong, then to move on to house, then street, neighborhood, and so forth all the way out to the solar system, and then back down in the opposite order. A simple concept, but one that was made unnecessarily confusing.… (mehr)
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