Many of us remember being shocked by the love young children have for the “100 First Words” books, with their pages and pages of photos of objects, people, and animals, and no text beyond the object’s label – tractor, couch, dog. How boring! Or so we thought…
As a child, when you’re just learning about the world around you and haven’t experienced or even seen most things, photos help you do just that.
In the One Globe Kids series, photos, more so than drawings, give readers a feeling of being close to the children they meet – their expressions, where they live, their families – providing an intimacy that illustrations cannot. Combined with a story told from the child’s perspective and with a child’s voice, the photos make that child as real a friend as possible.