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EYE SUPPLEMENT Picture books: Life lessons

Meg Barclay, education consultant and early years reviewer for the School Library Association, reviews picturebooks that teach children more about the world, introduce them to shapes and build their confidence around self-discovery

Our World: USA

By Joëlle Retener

Illustrated by Sarah Walsh

Barefoot Books

April 2025, pp20, £7.99

9798888593776

Reading age: 0-4 years

This is a fun, robust board book showing life in the USA. Each double page corresponds to a different place in America, following life during the day. The book starts with waking up in Oklahoma, moves on to eating breakfast in Alabama and then continues showing eight different characters from the vast breadth of the country, and finishing with going to sleep in California. Readers gain an understanding of how big the country is and how different life is in each of its constituent areas.

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