This Is How We Do It: One Day in the Lives of Seven Kids from Around the World

This Is How We Do It is not the first book to show kids how other kids around the world live, but it's a particularly thoughtful and appealing approach. Using photographs and descriptions sent to him by seven real families in seven countries (Japan, Peru, Iran, Russia, India, Italy, and Uganda), Lamothe has drawn everyday aspects of their everyday lives—"This is what I eat for breakfast," "This is how I play"—in a way that makes them intimate and familiar, and that offers surprises to readers of any age. (4 and up)