How Kids Play Around the World

In this book we visit 15 different countries or continents to find out what games and fun activities the local kids like to entertain themselves with.

Children like to play above all else, either alone or with friends. But how and what they play varies from place to place. Would you like to know about games played in Africa, New Zealand, South America, or Vietnam? This book will show you that some games are pretty much the same wherever you go, while others are completely different and unfamiliar.

In each chapter a local kid poses as a guide who introduces us to the typical and most popular games and plays of certain country or culture. Kids will learn that every nation likes to have fun in their own way and that difference is what makes each culture special.

Vorwort

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Planned ETA Jackson: February 28, 2023

Autorentext

Stepanka Sekaninova used to work as a TV reporter and in the production of children’s programs. Now she is a writer and an editor-in-chief, living in the Czech Republic. 
 Michaela Bergmannova is an illustrator from Czechia. A graduate of the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, she worked with Czech Television on several children’s shows. She has also illustrated several children’s books and she also works for a children’s magazine. What she loves most about how the children perceive the world is the delight that kids take in new discoveries and their straightforwardness to new topics.

Inhalt

African Games
North American Games
New Zealand Games
Finnish Games
Spanish Games
German Games
Israeli Games
Indian Games
Japanese Games
Australian Games
Games of Native Americans
South American Games
Scottish Games
Dutch Games
Vietnamese Games