Get a little taste for what a typical school day (and the weekend after) is like for kids all over the world from waking up to how they get to school to what they eat at lunch and what they do after school.

This book does a very good job of presenting a wide variety of countries. Along the way readers get introduced to many different types of housing, foods, school weeks, homework assignments, after school activities, chores, and family past times. Some of these will emphasize how different things can be for kids all over the world while others can emphasize how similar things can be for kids in very different countries. The illustrations are attractive and should pull kids into the story. The title is a little bit of a misnomer because the book actually covers a day of school and the weekend. I found most of the selected activities and foods to be good representations of that country. There were only a few that I felt were odd choices (like the mom in Australia waking up her kids by squirting them with water…I have several Australian friends and I’m pretty sure this is not a normal thing, but kids will take it as normal because they see it in here). But for the most part it was done quite well and this would be a great book to introduce kids to the fact that there are many other people in the world who live both differently and similarly. I did like that in the front of the book is a map showing where each of the countries is located and in the back of the book are flags for each of the countries represented, some stats, and a fun fact. Recommended for curious kids, those studying cultures around the world, and learning about the global community.

I received an ARC of this title from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I was very lucky to have grown up in a neighborhood full of many cultures. I learned alot from that and learned to respect other cultures. I want the same for my Granddaughter and have tried to provide that for her as I did her Mom and Uncle. I love this book because it goes into so much and how different yet alike our lives are. From waking up to breakfast, to going to school, to friends, to playtime to dreams and more this book tells how it is done in different countries. There is a map in the beginning of the book with all the countries and children and flags and country short information on the countries included in the back of the book. This is a great book for any child to read, but would also be good for a heritage report or cultural report for school. The illustrations are fun and colorful and will hold the attention of any child. I highly recommend this book for 5+ yr olds.
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Some of you might be old enough to remember the Day In The Life book series, where photos from all over the world described the differences, and ultimately the similarities, between different cultures. This book does the same, only with children and drawings.
Done chronologically, this shows different homes around the world as they wake up and prepare for breakfast, then through the rest of the day. It’s hard to imagine the kids in the poorer regions looking so happy all the time, but then this isn’t exactly meant to be realistic.
I love that quiet time in California consists of yoga. But the sport to play in the Galapagos is basketball? Some entries are kinda silly, as though running out of inspiration, but for the most part they show kids around the world doing what most kids do, which is likely the point.
There’s a lot of info packed in here, but most of it is captions on the drawings, so many that they seem to overflow the pages.
At the end there’s a list of countries, flags and small details on each, all topped by a Russian girl doing a handstand.
3.5 pushed up to 4/5

I always love this kind of book, and this one is fabulous. It follows various children through a normal day, contrasting things they do and showing that we're not so different really. The little illustrations are gorgeous, cartoony but not too cartoony, adding a splash of colour to each page. Lovely. I'll be looking forward to seeing it in person.


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What a precious idea for a children's book! One Day, So Many Ways takes each major component of a child's average day (i.e., waking up, breakfast, lunch, playtime, etc.), and shows how it might look in a handful of different countries all over the world, complete with colorful, fun artwork. I was amazed by the variety of cultures represented here and feel like it's such a fun and exciting way for children to learn more about kids from other parts of the world.

Would I add it to my son's library? Yes!

Thank you so much to the publisher for providing me with this ARC in exchange for an honest review!

A great first introduction for children to understand things happen differently in different places. Simple, eye catching illustrations

I love the concept of this book. That children all over the world experience different things at the same time, that are very similar but different.

In this example, below, all of the children are doing different things, and they are listed by city and country (or at least city and state).

And this shows what I do like about this book. The pictures are colorful. The activities the children engage in are varied, and kids can learn about other countries, and how children do things.

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But, despite this example, there are some oddities in the book that are a little off-putting.

For example, in this image about nighttime, there is a picture that is supposed to be taking place in Vancouver, BC, but it shows a house in the middle of the woods, with a coyote and owls. I have been to Vancouver enough times to know that isn’t right. There are high rises everywhere, and there is no land large enough, int he city to have such a big back yard. And the problem with this is, if this is so wrong, what else was gotten wrong.

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The other thing that I have trouble with, is shown here, in Quiet Times. And thought I love all the different ways that kids around the world are experiencing quiet times, i seems odd to me that children are called out by city and country, except for kids in California, which is a state. It is the third largest state in the Union. Why not just pick a city?  California is not all the same.

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Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review.

Written descriptively by Hall and illustrated well by Lora, this book is definitely needed. As a reader who tires of so many novels by American authors set in the US, as though nothing ever happens elsewhere in the world, I welcome books which amplify how important the rest of the world is, and illustrate how critical it is to have an awareness and understanding of other nations, especially at a time when we have a president who seems determined to wear blinkers.

Children need to grasp how big this world is and how different and alike other children are. It never hurts to be wise to the ways of the world and this book represents a sterling start, taking us through a typical day across Earth, but looked at through many facets: those of children of over forty other nations.

It begins with the kids waking up to a new day, breakfasting, traveling to school, learning, playing, making friends, having quiet time, enjoying sports and games, traveling home and completing chores, homework and going to bed! It discusses how different each country can be, or how similar, by illustrating each new page with many vignettes of life elsewhere and at home.

Do the Venetians in Italy enjoy the same food as us? How about children in Burkina Faso? In Jining? In Kathmandu? Do they play the same games? Dream the same dreams? Hope for the same things? The stories come from literally across the entire globe, from two-score nations, from Australia to Alaska, Mali to Mexico, Ecuador to England, Ireland to India, Patagonia to Poland and more.

If I had one complaint it would be that the ebook comes as a double-page spread which makes it rather small, even on a tablet computer. It would have been easier to read had these double-spreads been split into individual pages, and I saw no reason why they could not have been. Evidently this was planned as a print book with little thought given to ebook versions which is rather sad. Other than that, I fully recommend this book as a worthy and educational read for all children everywhere!