On behalf of Multicultural Children’s Book Day, I am reviewing ebooks from One Globe Kids, a nonprofit with a mission to spread global friendship stories and educational resources.
What I really love about these eBook is that it is an experience. It’s fascinating to learn about Valdo in Haiti. He and his parents travel down a mountain (4o minutes hike), take a tap tap (like a van service), and then a bus. All this travel is for a half day of kindergarten! All this is narrated by Valdo himself!
I loved learning about what Valdo eats and how he plays. But there’s more! There are modules to learn to count and converse in his language, Kreyol. There are also facts about Haiti and vocabulary modules.
One Globe Kids is more than a book … it’s an interactive travel experience!
One Globe Kids is a digital library of global friendship stories and education resources. Each story is developed to help kids 4-10yrs old draw connections between their life and that of peers in other countries, almost as if making a new friend. Children can currently ‘visit’ new friends in Haiti, Indonesia, The Netherlands, Burundi, New York City and Israel.
One Globe Kids is a non-profit program by Globe Smart Kids, an American 501(c)3. All Globe Smart Kids programs help children grow up feeling safe, happy and excited about interacting with diverse people and in diverse contexts.
Anne Glick is one of the co-founders of Globe Smart Kids and also the author and photographer of the One Globe Kids stories. She shared her personal story of why she made One Globe Kids in a TEDx talk: “How a child’s imagination can fight prejudice”.
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Food for the Future: Sustainable Farms Around the World
- Junior Library Guild Gold selection
- Selected as one of 100 Outstanding Picture Books of 2023 by dPICTUS and featured at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair
- Starred review from School Library Journal
- Chicago Library’s Best of the Best
- 2023 INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist
- Green Earth Book Award longlist
- Imagination Soup’s 35 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 for Kids
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That does sound wonderful! My boys and I used to watch a movie series that this book reminded me of and we just loved looking into the daily lives of other children around the world.
Hi Mother of 3,
I loved the immersion into another person’s culture and family. The foreign language words are a nice addition too!
What a wonderful resource for homes & classrooms.
Hi Patricia,
I think so too! It’s hard to explain exactly what this eBook series is all about since it’s so much more than just an eBook, but I hope parents and educators use this! I would have loved this when my kids were younger and they were learning Spanish.
What a cool idea. I love what the author has done.
Hi Patricia,
I do too! This is such a well done series! I love how it’s a story but also a social studies unit!