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Birthdays Around The World by Margriet Ruurs
Category: Children's Educational
Everyone in the world has a birthday. But birthdays are not celebrated in the same way everywhere. Meet Mercedes in Peru, who eats a cake and a purple pudding called mazamorra morada. Ieva in Latvia is raised in the birthday chair, one lift for each year. And rather than celebrating his own birthday, Ph ...Show more
Families Around the World by Margriet Ruurs
Category: Children's Educational
A successor to the popular Children Around the World written and illustrated by Donata Montanari, this book allows young readers to visit with fourteen children, each from a different country, to learn about their families. Based on real children, each one's story fills a two-page spread and is told in ...Show more
Families Around the World by Margriet Ruurs
Category: Children's Reference
This book allows young readers to visit with fourteen children, all from different countries, to learn about their families. Based on real children, each is told in the first person, beginning with a greeting in the child's native language. From Ryan, who lives on a Texas cattle farm, to Nkoitoi, who te ...Show more
In My Backyard by Margriet Ruurs; Ron Broda (Illustrator)
Category: Children's Non Fiction
From the singing of little wrens in spring to paper wasps building their nests in summer; from baby bats drinking mother's milk in fall to baby possums climbing into mother's pouch in winter, In My Backyard celebrates nature and backyard animals through the seasons. Wildlife artist Ron Broda's detailed ...Show more
School Days Around the World by Margriet Ruurs
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Around the World
Author Margriet Ruurs begins this engaging informational picture book by posing an intriguing question: "What is a school? Is it a building with classrooms? Or can it be any place where children learn?" The fascinating stories that follow will expand how young readers think of school, as they learn abou ...Show more
Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family's Journey by Margriet Ruurs
Category: Young Adult Fiction
When I was little, not so long ago, my brother, Sami, our friends and I played on sunbaked soil. We laughed, ran across rocks and sand, free as birds. Then the birds stopped singing. People began to leave our village. First a trickle, then a stream, across dusty fields under a burning sun, a stream dri ...Show more
The Elephant Keeper : Caring for Orphaned Elephants in Zambia by Margriet Ruurs; Pedro Covo (Illustrator)
Category: Nature | Series: CitizenKid Ser.
Inspired by the true story of a teenage boy who saved an elephant calf and took it for care at the Lilayi Elephant Nursery in Zambia, Ruurs has created a moving story that powerfully demonstrates the plight of endangered animals everywhere. Full color.
Where We Live - Mapping Neighborhoods of Kids Around the Globe by Margriet Ruurs; Wenjia Tang (Illustrator)
Category: Children's
This fascinating look at 16 children's neighborhoods around the world broadens readers' understanding of global cultures. This unique illustrated map book explores the neighborhoods of 16 real children from around the world. Author Margriet Ruurs, who met many of these children in her travels, tells th ...Show more
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