Children everywhere will enjoy reading about the lives of these children who share their world. Most live in extended or nuclear families but Suchart a novice monk live in a monastery and Tedasse an Ethiopian boy lives in an orphanage. Their environments include mountains deserts rainforests plains and polar regions. There are children from both industrialised and developing nations including children from tribal cultures. The children live in places as diverse as New York Mongolia and the Amazon Basin. Extraordinary photographs bring to life the children's families and homes their clothes and food their friends and favourite games and other aspects of their daily lives. Their stories are recorded in this remarkable book published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Over the past two years a photographer and a teacher have travelled to more than 30 different parts of the world to meet these children. Their cultures are different yet in many ways their daily lives are very similar as are their hopes for the future and their ways of looking at the world. each has hopes and fears dreams and beliefs. Tadessa from Ethiopia Suchart from Thailand Celina from Brazil.
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