Global Voices: Picture Books from Around the World

How often are children really exposed to voices different than their own? When perusing a bookstore or library, we generally encounter picture books written and published in the USA with American, English-speaking children as the intended audience. When we do encounter books that were originally published elsewhere in the world, they have often been edited prior to US publication to better accommodate our language and sensibilities. Global Voices: Picture Books from Around the World provides us with a wonderful opportunity to broaden our own and our children’s worldview and discover picture books which legitimately represent cultures, voices and experiences from...