Everybody Travels: Every One A Different Journey

By Author / Illustrator

Kristin Roskifte

Genre

Representation & Inclusion

Age range(s)

Publisher

Wide Eyed Editions

ISBN

9780711294561

Format

Hardback

Published

06-06-2024

Synopsis

Celebrate empathy, connection and togetherness with this touching follow-up to the bestselling interactive book Everybody Counts.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday... any day... you may be travelling to the supermarket, the park, or the seaside. But it's not only you - everybody travels, all the time. This is a book jam-packed full of lovely stories, big and small, all about the human experience. It is a beautiful reminder that we are all ultimately on a journey together!

Each person in this book is on their own personal journey. Whether that journey is in the pages of a story book they are reading, or on an airplane trip to meet a long-lost relative at a family reunion... we are moving, being moved, arriving and departing all the time.

Read the clues on each page about where that person is going and why. Enter their world and work out their funny, sometimes tragic, bizarre and ultimately human story on their journey through life, sometimes at the beginning and sometimes at the very end.

This book can be read on many levels by many ages, with more to discover as children grow up. This makes it a truly sentimental and timeless keepsake that teaches important lessons only when the time is right. At moments profound, funny and silly, it is a reminder that we are all in it together; a story that promotes compassion and tolerance for strangers and newcomers in their finest and worst moments and a reminder that we are all somewhere, travelling along our life's path as individuals.

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Reviews

Everybody Travels needs to be in the hands of every child because it is AMAZING! This book explores the journeys of people around the world and delves into how we are all unique and different through the text...

"Eleven people in a shoe shop. One will experience one of life's greatest moments in their new shoes." Exploring this book will help children understand that although we might all experience the same moment in time, we will all have different feelings about it and thoughts, too.

This book is an excellent springboard to look at empathy and feelings by exploring the text and the fabulous illustrations which are diverse and so detailed! There are so many scenarios to explore which led to some lovely discussions in my classroom on subjects which led to thoughtful responses about people and our world. The sections, Can you answer the questions?, are a bonus and I know many children who would spend hours exploring and finding out more!

This book is clever, modern and so important in our world today! We loved it!

72 pages / Reviewed by Maria, teacher