Our Favourite Stories from Around the World

Celina from Brazil is sometimes scared of the monster that whistles in the rainforest… Ngawaiata from New Zealand learns about Maori culture at her aunt’s school. In this book we meet real children from around the world who introduce us to the stories that are favourites in their countries. From Erdene who lives on the Mongolian steppes, to Meena in India, and Houda in urban Morocco come tales of brilliant horsemanship, the birth of great gods, and the building of palaces to rival paradise. As we read about the characters and images of different cultures, we realise that though our environments are richly diverse, our stories contain what we share-human fears and ambitions, values, and humour. This is a book from real children and for real children everywhere. Our Favourite Stories has been produced by a unique combination of talents. The stories are sensitively retold by Jamila Gavin and illustrated by Amanda Hall. Barnabas and Anabel Kindersley travelled to the remotest corners of the globe to take the wonderful photographs of the children and their surroundings, which were originally published in the prize-winning book Children Just Like Me