Last night I added a new type of book from Sleeping Bear Press into our bedtime reading routine. “Tales of the World” from Sleeping Bear Press is a series of titles that feature stories from different cultures around the world. From ancient Japan to contemporary Ireland these stories are specifically meant for young readers to enjoy while they learn.
Our introduction to this series was with their title Welcome to America, Champ! This is a great story about Thomas, a young British boy during WWII. During the war his widowed mother remarries a U.S. Army soldier which leads to their moving to the U.S. after the war has ended.
This story was a great way for me to have a little history lesson with 5-year-old Michaela. She was very interested in learning about the tens of thousands of “soldier brides” that traveled to America to join their husbands after WWII had ended.
The story took longer to read than normal as we had many tangents and questions on “Operation Diaper Run,” the way one item can have different names depending on the culture or slang, royalty, victory gardens, rationing, and even cricket.
Welcome to America, Champ! is intended for kids aged 6-10, but I think younger kids with inquisitive minds will also enjoy the book (as did my 5-year-old). We didn’t get into any discussions that were out of her league, but this book definitely opened up discussion for us concerning WWII, including her great-grandfather’s WWII service in the Navy.
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February 5, 2014 at 12:33 am[…] a few months back I shared on of the Sleeping Bear Press Tales of the World series (see original review here). These tales truly are from around the world and the latest addition to the series, Tuki and Moka: […]