cover image Look Where I Live!/Regarde où j’habite!

Look Where I Live!/Regarde où j’habite!

Lone Morton, Catherine Bruzzone, and Susan Martineau, illus. by Louise Comfort. B Small (IPG/Trafalgar Sq., dist.), $9.99 paper (32p) ISBN 978-1-905710-91-1

Readers get a glimpse into the lives of fictional children in the U.S., Australia, England, Greece, Malaysia, and Switzerland in this seek-and-find title, written in French and English. After being introduced to a Scottish boy named Angus, readers meet his friends who live around the globe; their homes are first seen in exterior shots that hint at the larger urban and rural contexts in which they live. Simple prose lists several objects belonging to each child (an Australian boy named Ross has “two surfboards, three tennis rackets, three towels,” etc.), which children can locate in cutaway views of each house (an answer key and glossary are provided). Crammed with cozy details, Comfort’s watercolors will leave many readers fantasizing about lives in distant, unfamiliar shores. An English-Spanish edition is also available. Ages 6–9. (Jan.)