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Smiling (Small World S.) - Hardcover

Swain, Gwenyth

 
9781840894929: Smiling (Small World S.)

Synopsis

Explores the importance of smiling to people all over the world

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Synopsis

All over the world, in every tradition and culture, children tidy up, wash, get dressed, go to bed etc. The titles in this series look at how children learn how to take care of themselves. Using bright colour photographs and short texts, this series gives beginning readers and pre-school children a glimpse of children around the world doing everyday things and provides them with a sense of the ways in which people's lives are the same and different the world over. What make you smile? A sunny day in Spring? Coloured leaves in Autumn? "Smiling" takes you around the world to find out what makes people smile.

About the Author

Gwenyth Swain is the author of more than two dozen books for young readers. A two-time winner of a Minnesota Book Award for children's nonfiction, she loves history and historical fiction. Ms. Swain runs the middle school and high school libraries at Twin Cities Academy in St. Paul. Formerly, she was a costumed history player at historic Fort Snelling, a soda jerk, and a bookstore clerk.

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