Hello World: Greetings in 42 Languages Around the Globe!

Multicultural Picture Book
Title: Hellow World: Greetings in 42 Languages Around the Globe!
Author: Manya Stojic
Age Level: 3+
Rating: 4 out of 5

Summary
This book goes through 42 different languages that you will find around the globe and expresses how you greet people in each of those languages.

Opinion
I thought that this book was a great example of a multicultural book that deals with a melting pot.  This book combined a bunch of different languages together in one book to show that we all use greetings even though they may not all sound the same.  There is also a picture of a child from the particular country that corresponds with the language being represented.  I really enjoyed this book because it brough so many different cultures together and gives children the chance to learn something new about a different cultures language that they may not have known before.  This book was definitly a window book for me because there were some languages represented in there that I have not even heard of so I was able to learn something new from this book as well.  The level of culture that this book would fall under would be behavioral because it does deal with different languages around the world and how they use their language to greet people.

I would use this book in my classroom on a unit on different cultures.  I think that this is a great introductory book on how diverse our world really is and how many different languages we have out there.  I think that children will find this book to be really engaging as they try to repeat the greeting in the different languages that they are reading about.

http://www.allbookstores.com/Manya-Stojic/author
http://biography.jrank.org/pages/1103/Stojic-Manya-1967.html