by Peter Menzel  $45

This huge (255 full-color photographed pages), oversized coffee-table type book is subtitled “A Global Family Portrait”. 

Picture this: Full color photographs of families from all over the world, standing outside of their homes, with everything they own in the world stacked up around them. That’s what this book is. You can view families from half a world away who have 12 people living in a one-room hut, who own between them nothing more than a bag of rice, 2 chickens, a bowl, a pot, a blanket, and the clothes on their back. Turn a few pages and see an American family in all their stark contrast, as their belongings for their family of 5 don’t even fit in the 2-page photo spread and have to be listed separately as “additional items owned”.

Divided into sections such as “Islands”, “Middle East”, etc., this book makes it easy to look up a specific country or area that you are studying, and see how the people live there, from the viewpoint of one average family. It also tells you a biography on each family, what they do each day, how they live, etc.
It really “brings the world home to you”. A must-have, high interest book.  It also makes a popular gift book. Flexicover,  1.2kg.