Our World of Water

Name: Our World of Water
Brand: Allen & Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781845079734
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By Beatrice Hollyer

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Our World of Water explores the vital role of water in daily life through the eyes of six children from around the globe, including Peru, Mauritania, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Tajikistan, and California. It reveals where water comes from, how these children use it, and highlights the varying cultural importance of water worldwide.

The book also addresses the increasing challenges of floods and droughts caused by global warming, encouraging readers to reflect on water's preciousness and the need to protect this essential resource.
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Ideal for children and educators interested in environmental issues and global cultures, this book serves as an engaging resource to foster awareness of water's significance and the impact of climate change.

Where does water come from? How do people in different countries use it? This book follows the daily lives of six children from Peru, Mauritania, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Tajikistan and California and explores what water means to them.

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Wherever we live in the world – whether our country is rich or poor – water is vital to our survival on this planet.

Our World of Water follows the daily lives of six children from Peru, Mauritania, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Tajikistan, and California, exploring what water means to them. Where does it come from? How do they use it?

With the growing threat of floods and droughts occurring throughout the world due to global warming, this book invites discussion on these topics. It documents the ways different countries and cultures value this most precious of our planet's natural resources.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781845079734

Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 October 2009

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Frances Lincoln Children's Books

Contributors:

Foreword by Zadie Smith
By Oxfam

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 228.0mm

Height: 280.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 48

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Beatrice Hollyer Children's Books Children’s & Teenage Non-Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational

About the Author

Beatrice Hollyer has been a writer and traveller all her life. As a television reporter and newscaster, she covered conflicts in the Gulf, the Middle East, South Africa and the former Yugoslavia, and reported from Europe and the United States. She was born in South Africa and has lived in London for the past twenty years. She gave up war zones when her daughter was born in 1994 and has since worked as a consultant and writer. She is the author of two parenting books. Our World of Water follows Wake Up, World! and Let's Eat in this series of picture books for children. Oxfam works in 77 countries and supports nearly 3,000 long-term development projects. Its publishing division helps raise awareness of life and cultures all over the world. Zadie Smith is the author of three novels, most recently On Beauty, and the editor of the short-story anthology The Book of Other People.