Margriet Ruurs

Children from fourteen countries in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa introduce themselves, their families, and their everyday lives, in a book that also discusses the idea of family and invites readers to describe their own.

Describes unusual mobile libraries found around the world.

In this lively photo essay, readers get to know students who are pursuing their dreams of a brighter future, and of teachers who are devoted to improving people's lives, from the arid plains of southern Afghanistan to the rain forests of Guatemala.

Emma, a young chicken, learns what to do and what not to do with the eggs she has laid.

Features fourteen real students from around the world during a typical school day, detailing the different educational and cultural settings and sharing stories about the many places and ways children learn and play.