FICTION

What's for Lunch?: How Schoolchildren Eat Around the World

by Andrea CURTIS
illus. by Sophie Casson. 40p. glossary. Red Deer. 2012. pap. $12.95. ISBN 978-0-88995-482-3.
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Gr 1–4—From an American cafeteria to a refugee camp in Kenya, there's a consistent format to almost every spread, which features a meal from a specific city: story/origin of the lunch on the left, color photograph on the right. These simple visuals, like the single scoop of lentils served on a sheet of notebook paper in Lucknow, India, speak volumes. Though not in-depth, the explanations and diagrammed facts surrounding the pictures can provide many points of discussion about cultural differences, poverty, nutrition, world hunger, and activism.—Joanna K. Fabicon, Los Angeles Public Library
Reviewed by Joanna K. Fabicon , Jan 01, 2013

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