People

This richly illusrated book teaches lessons for children AND adults. Visually it is so detailed and colorful that you could spend a day just discussing the pictures.But the lesson that the book teaches is priceless - the world is a wonderful, diverse place but that people everywhere seek the SAME things: love, security, creativity and the freedom to express their unique place in the universe. Run, don't walk. Buy this book and see for yourself.

This book is a fantastic way for teachers to begin their lessons on Cultural Geography! I used this book as an introduction to their Culture Project (another book/workbook available on Amazon). After reading this book together, students worked out several questions together and individually, such as "Which Nose best reflects your nose?" "Which ears are the closest to yours?" "Which style of expression would you be most likely to try?" "Which games have you participated in or heard of?" "What's the most unusual thing food from this book that you have ever eaten?" and "If you could choose any form of shelter from those shown in the book, which might you choose?" They LOVED this. I then proceeded to reference it while we spent 4 days learning words/phrases in Cherokee (one of the languages featured on the written languages pages) and Swahili (not listed in the book). My kids loved it and loved discussing the differences between groups. I was amazed at some of the things they found interesting and some of the things they found disgusting. There is a passage in the book that talks about how not everyone considers the same things beautiful/ugly. Here I made a reference to a Disney movie from the 90s, A Far Off Place with Reese Witherspoon and Ethan Embry (known then as Ethan Randall). In the Bushman language, Reese informs us they have no words for beauty/pretty because it's not something that is of importance to their culture. Pop culture references and students' prior knowledge really made this book worth while! The edition I purchased indeed has updated numbers/figures for population increase and religious adherents/followers. A great resource to expose children of any age to the various traditions and great diversity of the world and to help place value on individuality.

This is a picture book a person can go back to again and again. Every page has detailed illustrations to convey its message that the great variety of people in this world is wonderful to behold. I have given the book to children and adults. In one case, I shared my copy with a teaching colleague who was xenophobic. He was fascinated and asked me to get him a copy.

While the book is somewhat old and has some images that are dated/incorrect, this book makes a great conversation piece. My son came home from kindergarten asking me to buy it after enjoying it in the classroom, and we have had some great discussions as a result. On the whole this is still a great book to introduce kids to the gorgeous diversity of the people, traditions and cultures of the whole planet that they don’t encounter daily (or ever). Don’t skip talking about it when something gives you pause, but for me it’s definitely not worth skipping the book.

Many years ago, the niece of a long time caucasian friend (the niece was about 4 or 5 at the time) greeted me with the fact that she didn't like me because I was brown. I remember spending several hours at her house noticing that she was really into being white (if you get my drift). She loved watching the movie "Grease" over and over and didn't want to see anything with black people in it. In fact, her mother told me that they had been in a store with other white women admiring the new baby of an African American friend, and her daughter looked at the baby and said, "I think your baby looks like a monkey." The parents said they didn't understand her attitude, because they never denigrated other ethnic groups at home. And I believed them! Frankly, I think it was some past life stuff she had to work through. I mean, it's possible to be born being prejudiced if you just left a life where you were. Anyway, once I got home, I sent her this book. I was told it was useful in helping her change her attitude. And she did "grow out of" her prejudice and is a wonderful young lady today working in the entertainment industry. Recently, I shared it with a client who is the white mother of a bi-racial son, who has started asking questions about the color of his skin and the color of his mother's skin. She said, this book was perfect!

I grew up with this book and it influenced my perception of differences and piqued my curiosity for different peoples of the world. This book normalized differences for me from quite a young age. It was so influential on me that I buy it for relatives and friends with young children.What is it about: This book explains to children in a non-woo woo way that the world is full of different cultures and different looking people. The only thing that is the same around the world is that there is difference everywhere you look.This book is a conversation starter and in my opinion, a valuable introduction for young minds to the concept of our world of cultures.

My daughter was telling me that the ages between 3 & 5 my grandson was noticing differences in people & coming up with his own terminology! At times it was embarrassing to her and he couldn’t understand what was wrong with what he was saying! She would try to explain to him but he is very much a visual individual and didn’t understand what the problem was! He truly didn’t believe that he was doing anything disrespectful! All of a sudden I remembered this lovely book that I would read to my Pre-K class called People! It was very enlightening to my students about how life would be so boring if we all were the same & that differences should be celebrated because that’s what makes us all special individuals!

Wonderful book for children, makes them thinking about differences, cultures and racism. Beautiful illustrations.Age 4+

My grandson loved the detailed illustrations and couldn't stop talking about how much people are the same and yet how different we all are.

Está en inglés. Lo compré porque en este formato salía más barato pero está muy bien porque tiene poco texto y se entiende muy bien para los que no estamos muy puestos con el idioma. Muy educativo para los niños, porque les enseña la diversidad que hay en el mundo de todo, personas, rasgos, gastronomía,

Too good for my kid

il libro (testo in inglese) spiega ai bimbi in età prescolare le diversità dei popoli e delle loro culture; purtroppo la versione italiana è pressochè introvabile, ma le tavole di disegni coloratissimi parlano da sole e l'inglese utilizzato è molto semplice e comprensibile.