All over the world children celebrate and in this book we look at how they learn to take care of themselves. Using photographs and short texts it aims to give beginner readers and pre-school children a glimpse of the ways peoples' lives are the same and different the world over.

 

This book is part of a book series called Small Worlds .

There are 14 pages in this book. This book was published 2013 by Evans Publishing Group .

Gwenyth Swain is the author of more than two dozen books for young readers. She runs the library at Twin Cities Academy in St. Paul, Minnesota. Swain was inspired to write about Ellis Island after hearing her grandmother's stories of a visit to the immigration station in the early 1900s. She lives in St. Paul. Hope and Tears was supported in part by a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board.