This Is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids from around the World (Easy Reader Books, Children Around the World Books, Preschool Prep Books)

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!!"

This book is very nice, beautiful pictures and I love that it shows different parts of life for 7 different children from around the world. However, I was disappointed by the format of the book. I found it confusing that each page shows everything from all seven kids lives. All seven outfits they wear, all seven different meals they eat. I wouldn't mind so much if the order on the page at least stayed the same throughout the book, but the order shown (by country) changes each time. I found it confusing to follow myself, so I doubt my kids who I was hoping to use the book with as a teaching tool will be able to follow very easily. I wish the book would just go one child/country at a time. I think it would be easier to compare and contrast that way.

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!

I got the sample of this book on Kindle before buying the hardcover for my grandnephew. Later I bought the Kindle version for myself. It’s a really sweet book. I wish it had been organized a little bit differently with the children in the same order for every topic to make it easier to follow. Perhaps that was a deliberate choice to keep the attention of children and adults. You expect one thing, but have to think about it to follow it. Books like this are needed very much nowadays. This one follows the lives of a few children from around the world, showing that while we might eat different food or wear different clothing, a lot of what we do is the same, and also, we’re all people. We’re all humans. This is a great book to spark an interest in other cultures.

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!

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.

My 4 YO loves this book, especially with COVID and there is no travelling, she gets to travel 'around' to 7 countries and learn how similar children living in other countries are - but yet so different. She picks up how some cultures uses hands to eat, chopsticks, or fork and spoon just like her - how their names are written in their language, etc. We love it as a family