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Name: First Day Around the World
Author: Zoboi, Ibi Aanu
ISBN: [978-0-06-307888-8,0-06-307888-0]

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First Day Around the World

Author: Zoboi, Ibi Aanu

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Follett Number: 2530VG3
Audience: Lower Elementary
Publisher: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2025
Format: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 27 cm
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-307888-8
ISBN-10: 0-06-307888-0
Dewey: 371
Classifications: Nonfiction

Subjects:

First Day of School

Picture Books

Schools Cross-Cultural Studies

A picture book offers a lyrical celebration of the first day of school across every continent and explores what going back to school looks like, including breakfast-to-bedtime routines, for children in countries around the world.

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From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and artist Juanita Londono, this lyrical celebration of the first day of school across every continent explores what going back to school looks like for children in countries around the world! How do children around the world spend their first day of school Some eat warm akara for breakfast in Nigeria, while others unwrap lunches of kluski in Poland. In China, they practice intricate characters in special notebooks, and in Argentina, they learn each other's names in a sing-song memory game. No matter where in the world, every student has something new to look forward to on their first day! From Ethiopia to Germany to India to Brazil, this lyrical text introduces young readers to the breakfast-to-bedtime routines, cultures, and landscapes that connect people across all continents.

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