World Cultures (Comparative)
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Written By Margaret Musgrove, Illustrated By Leo and Diane Dillon
Africa is a large and diverse continent.
This beautiful book takes an ABC approach to exploring some of the cultures found throughout Africa. Although a short book can’t tell a complete story of African heritage, the beautiful illustrations and short descriptions of various cultures are enough to make any reader – young or older- want to learn more.
How do people live? What do they like to grow and eat? How do people dress and what are their families or celebrations like? What games do the children play? This book allows you to take a whirlwind trip throughout Africa as an introduction to its rich and diverse cultural heritage.
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Written By Margy Burns Knight
Illustrated By Anne Sibley O’Brien
Africa is a broad and diverse land. This book shares short vignettes of how life is different in 53 countries that make up the African continent.
Bright illustrations share everyday activities such as going to school on a busy street in Cairo, practicing a traditional dance in Nigeria, children drawing their impressions of the war in Rwanda and kids dreaming of being professional runners in Kenya. Although it’s hard to compress so many traditions and cultures into a short title aimed at young readers, this book is a welcome starting point to explore the diversity of the continent in a way that encourages the reader to want to learn more.
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Written By John Steptoe
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters is a Cinderella tale beautifully in Zimbabwe. Written by John Steptoe, the story was inspired by a folktale of that region published in the late 1800’s and the names of the characters are from the Shona language of Zimbabwe.
The book tells the tale of a village elder and his two daughters whose personalities are as different as night and day. When a King from a nearby town declared his intention to find a wife, the real action of the story begins. As both girls travel to the main city to meet the King, they encounter obstacles that turn out to be tests of character. How both girls handle the situations determine who is seen as fit to marry the King. And there’s another plot twist that will surprise you, but you’ll have to pick up the book to find out what it is.
Although the “Cinderlla story” is well known, this book is so well written and lushly illustrated that you may find yourself lost in the tale or rereading it time and time again. It’s just that good.
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Written and Illustrated By Sheila Hamanaka
What colors do children come in? All the colors of the earth!
Japanese-American author and illustrator, Sheila Hamanaka weaves a beautiful picture of how our skin and hair color is just one part of the incredible beauty and diversity found in nature. Both kids and adults will delight in the way Shiela describes the colors found in world peoples in ways that are strong and vibrant such as “the roaring browns of bears” or compares hair types to those of mermaids or “…hair that curls like sleeping cats in snoozy cat colors”. Wonderful illustrations taken from original oil paintings make this a great picture book for younger children as well.
At a time where children will encounter a great deal of diversity in the world around them, books like this encourage a sense of wonder and delight in difference – a perfect antidote to intolerance, ignorance and fear.
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Written and Illustrated By Sheila Hamanaka
In Sheila Hamanaka’s Grandparents Song, a young girl tells a tale of her ancestors that came from the four directions of the Earth. Each contributed something wonderous and special to her heart, soul and life. Each page or set of pages shares one ancestry and describes it with striking poetry, wonderful images and folk art such as Native beadwork incorporated into the pictures.
Dedicated by the author to “our American Ancestors, in Whose Dreams We Walk”, this is a wonderful book about multiculturalism and the American Family Tree. It’s also a powerful book for those of us who struggle with questions of identity because of mixed heritages. It helps us see a joy and a wonder to our unique combination of backgrounds in a way that affirms the dignity and the value of all people.
Highly recommended!
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