The indefatigable travel writer and expat expert Nicole Brewer is taking the children and their parents too to a joyful curious discovery of children´s games around the world. Her newest book An ABC Guide to Children´s Games Around the Globe appropriately illustrated by the Ukrainian-born artist Mariia Luzina is a journey from A to Z through children´s games.
The writing is up to the point, in a way which both describes and entices, both the children and their parents. I don´t remember any children book aimed to introduce various games - other than computer games - around the world, and therefore the book is valuable in terms of the information generously shared with the reader.
Another good take of the book is that it features mostly countries rarely featured - for good reasons, that´s it - in the everyday news and travel reports. Thus, the little ones will definitely be curious to find out more about countries like Liberia, Columbia, Peru, Nigeria, or Haiti. With the innocence of the age, I am sure that learning about how other children are spending their times will do them much better than discovering those countries later in life, through the biased everyday distorted mindset.
An ABC Guide to Children´s Games Around the World is a book that will keep the children busy during long flights or train rides, but will equally encourage children to see the world through different lenses. I sipped any bit of information shared and hope to be able to find out more about the games featured.
I just hope that more parents, but also school, will acquire the ABC Guide...because it open minds while sharing the kind of knowledge someone needs to start his or her own international journey.
Rating: 5 stars
Disclaimer: Book offered by the author in exchange for an honest review
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