The book depicts pairs of manners in a large number of countries and areas. These include, in alphabetical order, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, England, France, Germany, India, Japan, Malaysia, Middle East, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, and the United States. A world map included showing the location of these countries. Some pictures include well known iconic touristic sites such as the Sydney Opera House, Christ the Redeemer on top a mountain in Rio de Janeiro; St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia; Calgary Tower; Big Ben and the House of Parliament and a two-decker bus, London; Eiffel Tower, Paris; castle in Germany; White House in Washington; Maori home in New Zealand; and Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.
Besides fun and entertaining, you can use wordless/silent picture books in many other ways. You can use them to increase vocabulary, story structure. story retelling, and higher thinking skills.
The book contains two more pictures that depict the word PLEASE and THANK YOU in many languages.
This author will soon publish Minding your Manners ..at home ..around the world-Colouring book and Minding your Manners ..at home ..around the world-Dairy of my Travels Drawing books.
The former is the black and white renditions of this Picture books. Children should be able to colour the pictures on an iPad or on a printed page.
Children can draw their own pictures of manners situation on the Dairy of my Travel Drawing book. They can also use the pages to write stories or poetry.
