Pistes d'exploration

Before reading, discuss what you do to stay healthy.

Complete a graphic organizer to compare what you do to keep healthy with what the children in the book do.

Make a chart of things people do to keep themselves healthy.

Mark on a map the countries that are featured in the book. 

Discuss what you can do to be a healthy person.

Compile a list of healthy-living vocabulary: wash hands, drink safe water, etc.

Build a graphic organizer to compare similarities among and differences between children’s everyday activities.

I Have the Right to Be a Child, What Is a Community?

Mots-clés

Non-fiction , around the world , children , health , healthy eating , healthy living , illustrations (photographs) , multiculturalism

Commentaire descriptif

An important message about good health is delivered to early readers, while illustrations promote awareness of lives of children around the world. This is a powerful way to convey to youngsters the important similarities we all share as humans. Simple sentences in large type encourage beginning readers. They will pore over gorgeous photographs of children in new and familiar circumstances. Every photo is identified with its country of origin. Discussion about living circumstances of children around the world will inevitably arise from this book. “Healthy kids need clean water to drink” shows a young Ghanaian girl, carrying a baby on her back while pouring water from a large bucket—that’s resting on her head—into the family water jar. Kids will love the spread, “We use a toilet, a potty, a privy, a loo, a WC, an outhouse, or a pit latrine,” which shows photos of children using a variety of facilities. A forward by Melinda French Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, gives background in comprehensible, child-friendly language. Back material includes a world map showing the locations of photos and a brief expansion on all the themes addressed in the spreads.