DK Readers L3: School Days Around the World (DK Readers Level 3)

Great book great content clear real life pictures

Great text for my first graders while learning about schools across the globe! Also good for text feature hunts. Narration from a child's voice which is good too.

Great for my wife's 2nd grade class.

my granddaughter loved it for her 1st day of 2nd grade book

Summer required reading.

Three stars for putting together a book showing the universality of going to school. Especially for those first-day jitters, it is nice to teach our kids that children all around the world have "first days", and all of them have to study the same kinds of subjects. The complaint I have is that this book is heavy on showing developing-world kids in poor, rural schools, while kids in developed nations (such as England and the U.S.) were from more affluent environments. Just another book on our kids' bookshelves to unconsciously teach them that India and Ghana are poor poor poor, and all kids there have nothing, while the U.S. and England have it all. For our kids who come from these countries, there's always a lot of explaining to do when their friends assume their families overseas are dirt-poor, and that they are "lucky" to be living in the U.S. We need books that shake up this assumption.

I liked the way this book was written from the perspective of the students and what to each individual was normal. No two schools are exactly the same, not in developing countries or developed countries. I believe the author was trying to give the reader a glimpse of some of the, sometimes major, differences between schools, while showing that some things are the same no matter where you go, things such as game playing. The countries covered include the United States, Peru, England (Great Britain), Ghana, India, Japan, and Australia. The book is not and does not try to be comprehensive. Nonetheless there is much here worthy of discussion.

My 7-year-old daughter enjoyed reading it a lot. It is an interesting and smooth read.