"Can you say "hello" in nine languages? You can! Join children from around the world as they play, sing, and travel, trying all types of food and experiencing other traditions. Living respectfully and peacefully with one another, they celebrate diversity, see how their actions affect another person's experience, and come to understand that being global means being a citizen of the world.
The first book in Rana DiOrio's award-winning What Does It Mean To Be ...?® series, What Does It Mean To Be Global? has won six awards: The USA Book News Best Books Award for Children's Picture Book: Nonfiction; the Next Generation Indie Book Award for Multicultural Nonfiction; the Mom's Choice Gold Award for Children's Picture Book, Peoples, Places and Cultures; Learning Solutions Magazine Teachers' Choice™ Award for Children's Books; IBPA Benjamin Franklin Silver Winner for Interior Design in Children's/Young Adult; and The Nautilus Silver Award for Children's Illustrated."