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The Families of the World Video Series takes us through a typical day in
the lives of two families in each country featured. Narrated by children, the Families
of the World Video Series introduces you to each family's housing styles, foods,
clothing, religion, schools and places of business. This is the next best thing
to visiting and living with families in each of the countries. This highly acclaimed
30-minute documentary videos are available for 18 countries. Recommended for grades
K-5.
Details of each country
Families of Australia
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Families of Australia
30 minutes
Kids First Film Festival selection, Booklist
Eight-year-old Phoebe lives in Attunga, a town northwest of Sydney, with her parents, 10-year-old brother Forbes and their dog Jake. Phoebe contributes to the family chores, including feeding the chickens and collecting eggs and herding the sheep. After eating breakfast with her family, the Phoebe and her brother set out for school – this particular day is Sports Day, a friendly athletic competition with other schools. During her day, she also studies math, enjoys pizza and recess and plays field hockey with her classmates. Phoebe’s after school activities include violin and ballet lessons and learning to ride a motorbike to help with the herding. After dinner she reads with her father before heading off to bed.
Joshua is a seven-year-old who lives in Sydney with his mom, dad, five-year-old sister Phoebe and a menagerie of rabbits, fish, chickens and a parrot. Dad works as a journalist in downtown Sydney while Mom, a former journalist, is a stay-at-home mother and novelist. We learn how Joshua’s family deals with the long Australian droughts by conserving water in efficiently inventive ways. During Joshua’s day at school he studied English and penmanship and plays at recess with his friends. After school he visits his grandparents, practices piano and enjoys a nice bath before reading a story with his mother and going to bed.
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Families of Australia
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978-1-88819-491-3
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690678
007892
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2007
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$29.95
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Families of Brazil
30 minutes
Luca lives with his mother, father and 5 year old brother, Guido, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Luca and Guido love soccer, Brazil's national sport, and when they're not playing a video game, they watch their Dad's amateur team play and practice. We visit Luca's parents at the arts organization where they work, meet Luca's grandparents, who take care of Luca and his brother after school, and visit the statue of Christ high above the city of Rio de Janeiro.
Louisa lives with her brother, grandmother, mother and father on their family farm in the rolling countryside inland from Rio, where her father grows vegetables and cattle. Louisa's mother drives the children each day to their school in the nearest city 50 miles away, where she teaches ballet. When they're home, the children entertain themselves by roller blading and bicycling, watching TV and playing video games. While Louisa's brother plays in his tree house, Louisa learns the words to a song by the Spice Girls.
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Families of Brazil
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1-888194-32-4
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690678 000831
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1999
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$29.95
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Families of China
30 minutes
Nine-year-old Qinbo and her family live in Ningbo, a port city in China. We see Qinbo's father prepare breakfast and bike to work, follow her mother to work on a motor bike, and go to school with Qinbo on a public bus. We visit the parents' work sites, sit in on lessons at school, take a peek at students' after-school activities, and watch Qinbo, her friend, and family as they do karioki together in the evening.
Kun's mother and father grow bonsai in the mountains around their village near Ningbo. We follow Kun as he walks a half-hour to his school, watch the cook steam lunches the students have brought from home, see how Kun's father trains bonsai plants, visit the village's open market with Kun's mother and watch her prepare a meal for the family and Kun's grandparents.
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Families of China
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1-888194-31-6
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690678 000732
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1999
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$29.95
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Families of Ghana
30 minutes
Deborah lives with twelve extended family members in a family compound in a rural village in southern Ghana. The 8-year-old is up at 5:30 in the morning to finish washing dishes, sweeping, and carrying water before she leaves for school. After school, her brother applies a medicinal plant to a cut he got while sharpening a machete, she and her sisters make fufu, her father's favorite food, and we visit the colorful local market. In Accra, Ghana's capital, ten-year-old Emmanuel lives with his sister, mother, father and aunt. We follow him to school and to a funeral where his mother and father sing in the choir. We see colorful coffins in shapes that are meaningful to the person who has died, such as a fish for a fisherman, a banana for a farmer, and an airplane for someone who always wanted to fly.
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Families of Ghana
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1-888194-35-9
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690678 001135
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2000
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$29.95
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Families of India
30 minutes
AWARD: Telly 1996 (Educational- Bronze Award), Recommended by Video Librarian (12/97), Booklist (2/98), and School Library Journal (10/97), 1999 Parents'Choice Group Award)
Two families in Jamnagar, Gujarat State in northern India are profiled. We follow 8-year-old Raja as he attends school, plays cricket with his friends and chess with his mother, visits a Hindu temple and takes an evening walk with his parents.
We also see 5-year-old Bavika playing with her many cousins in their family compound, and we visit the family farm, where we see a water buffalo being milked, a woman making breakfast over a fire tended by her 4-year-old son, and a man using oxen to plow a field.
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Families of India
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1-888194-26-X
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690678 000237
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1995
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$29.95
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Families of Israel
30 minutes
Visit 9-year-old Inbar and her family at a kibbutz of 60 families in southern Israel. Inbar's parents helped build this new community in the second driest desert in the world. Inbar rolls down a big sand dune, feeds a calf, goes to school, makes her own breakfast and shares a Sabbath meal in the community hall. We visit her mother at work as an art therapist and see how a machine designed by Inbar's father helps keep food from spoiling. Now, visit the ancient city of Jerusalem, where six-year-old Joad lives in with his two sisters, brother, mother and father...and rabbit. Joad's mother is development director of a series of group homes for children and his father teaches and does dental research. With Joad's after school chess and karate classes and his siblings activities, theirs is a busy household. The Sabbath, which Joad and his family celebrate with his grandparents, is their one quiet day of the week.
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Families of Israel
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1-888194-36-7
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690678 001234
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2000
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$29.95
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Families of Japan
30 minutes
AWARDS: 1999 Parents' Choice Group Award, First Place at Worldfest (Houston Film Festival) 1998, Parenting Magazine's Video Magic Award 2000, Recommended by Booklist and School Library Journal, Kids First!® ALL STAR
"Families of Japan" documents the life of 8-year-old Ayako, who lives in Sendai, Japan. Ayako loves to climb trees, play her piano (which can be silenced so that it can only be heard through earphones), and go to calligraphy lessons. We follow Ayako and her mother as they go grocery shopping.
Ten-year-old Seichi lives on a farm near Furukawa, Japan. His family has raised rice there for 14 generations. Seichi and his sisters help feed the rabbits and chickens, watch TV, and go to their cousin's engagement party. We see the schoolteachers and children prepare for Sports Day and watch Seichi and his family enjoy the special holiday.
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Families of Japan
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1-888194-29-4
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690678 000534
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1998
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$29.95
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Families of Korea
30 minutes
Hee jin lives in 600 year-old HaHoe village and is learning the village's ancient mask dance that's performed for visitors all summer long. Her mother and grandmother run restaurants in the village and her father and grandfather farm land on the edge of the village. Heejin and her father visit the local market and stop at a paper factory to buy gift wrapping for her grandmother's birthday. There we see how paper is hand-made. We also follow 9-year-old Ki tae in Seoul, the capital of Korea, through a busy day in school and at his many after-school activities. Ki tae's mother practices golf before she shops in the neighborhood open market and supermarket. We watch Ki tae's aunt and his mother make a special dinner, and follow his father to the factory that he manages.
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Families of Korea
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1-888194-37-5
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690678 001333
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2001
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$29.95
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Families of Mexico
30 minutes
AWARD: Communicators Award 1998, Telly Award, Recommended by Booklist (2/98) and School Library Journal (10/97), 1999 Parents' Choice Group Award
"Families of Mexico" documents a family from the port city of Veracruz. Hermaina's father and mother own an advertising agency, which her father manages. We see her mother teach a dance class at the city's cultural center, go food shopping, visit Hermaina's school, and follow her to her swimming lesson.
Eight-year-old Brizia lives with her parents on her grandparents' farm. We visit her school and follow her and her friend as they visit the surrounding farms owned by her aunts and uncles, who are making tamales, harvesting cactus for salad, and sorting sesame seeds.
Now available in Spanish version |
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Families of Mexico
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1-888194-28-6
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690678 000435
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1997
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$29.95
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Familias de Mexico
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1-888194-50-2
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690678 003030 |
2004
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$29.95
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Families of Puerto Rico
30 minutes
Nine-year-old Jose and his family are closely watching weather reports on an approaching hurricane. We visit his mother, who supervises hurricane preparations for kidney dialysis patients at a hospital, shop for emergency supplies with his father and sister, visit a school, and learn about his father's business selling and repairing scientific scales. We also find out what happens with the hurricane!
Eight-year-old Laura lives on a farm in the mountains of Puerto Rico. Laura's mother does sustainable agriculture, growing bananas and tropical flowers. We see the damage caused to her family's farm by a hurricane a year ago. We visit Laura's father at work at a port company that ships fruits and vegetables, sit in on classes at Laura's bilingual school, and follow the family as they visit the largest radio telescope in the world.
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Families of Puerto
Rico
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1-888194-33-2
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690678 000930
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2000
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$29.95
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Families of Sweden
30 minutes
AWARDS: Kids First!® ALL STAR, Telly Award, Mothering Magazine's Top Video Picks for 1999, 1999 Parents' Choice Grop Award, Recommended by Booklist and School Library Journal (11/98)
"Families of Sweden" introduces 5 year old Evelina, who lives with her brother and parents in Kalmar, Sweden. We visit Evelina's day care, watch her mother as she teaches her class, visit her father as he photographs cell phone cases, and go to Evelina's pony riding lessons and a birthday party.
Then we meet 10 year old Alex and his family and follow him to school and to swimming lessons. Alex and his brother play computer games, their stepmother and half-sisters follow an exercise tape, and their father makes moose shish kabobs.
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Families of Sweden
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1-888194-30-8
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690678 000633
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1998
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$29.95
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Families of Thailand
30 minutes
AWARD: Summit Creative Awards (Educational - Silver Award) 1998, Recommended by Booklist (2/98) and School Library Journal (10/97), 1999 Parents' Choice Group Award
This program takes us to Bangkok to follow 10 year old Rakkiaet and his family, who live and work on a canal. Rakkiaet goes to school by boat, his brother runs a water taxi, his mother does her shopping at the floating market, and his father sells food from his boat to families along the canal. Buddhist monks visit the family's dock each day before dawn to accept food the family has prepared for them.
We also visit 7-year-old Akeem in a community of Sea Gypsies on Thailand's southern coast. We see Akeem's mother caring for her newborn infant, follow Akeem to school, and go fishing with Akeem's father, who catches tropical fish for export.
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Families of Thailand
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1-888194-27-8
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690678 000336
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1997
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$29.95
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Families of USA
30 minutes
Five-year-old Kyle lives in North Dakota with his parents and three brothers. They farm with his grandparents and several uncles and aunts and their families. We see how they harvest their grain, fix the harvesting machine, and take grain to the storage elevators in the nearby town of about 100 people. Kyle helps his mother bake caramel rolls, picks fresh peas and eats them in the garden while he shares some with his dog, and plays with miniature farm machines.
Kristin and her family are African Americans, living in Wilmington, Delaware. They have a wide range of interests that take us to a computer class at summer camp, basketball practice, dance classes, church services and a Christmas concert, where Kristin plays the flute. We visit her classes at school, her father at work as director of a social service agency and watch her mother teach physical education to elementary kids.
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Families of USA
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1-888194-34-0
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690678 001036
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2000
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$29.95
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Families of Russia
30 minutes
Anya, age 7, lives in the industrial city Nizhny Novgorod, built hundreds of years ago on the Volga and Oka Rivers. We learn how important education is to Anya and her brother, and what her parents do. Dad works for the local water department and must fix a broken pump. Her mother shops for groceries at a modern-looking store and an open-air market. After school, Anya practices gymnastics, and we see her working out on the parallel bars. Her workout is demanding, and she falters sometimes, but she says she must keep trying in order to improve her skills. While their city apartment is tiny by American standards, there's room for a mini jungle gym in the living room. The next segment follows Nicolai, age 10, whose family owns a farm where everyone pitches in and nothing is purchased if it can be made at home. The village of Retkino is known for its woodworking, and we see local craftspeople making bowls on a lathe and painting them in intricate and colorful designs. Nicolai zips through the village on his little motorcycle, and joins his dad for a soothing "banya" (sauna) before bed.
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Families of Russia
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1-888194-39-1
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690678 001531
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2002
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$29.95
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Families of United Kingdom
30 minutes
Jessica, age 9, lives with her parents, grandmother and two sisters on a large dairy farm in western England. Prince Charles once made a visit there because he owns some of the land where the cows graze. Jessica's school field trip to the beach is shown, and she and her sisters marvel at the two-week old chicks in their barn. Part of their house is 400 years old, but the family enjoys many modern conveniences. 10-year old James is the subject of the next segment. His family lives in Bath, which has an ancient heritage as an old Roman outpost. The ruins of the baths fed by hot springs still remain. But James also lives a modern life. His family is musical; his father creates scores for television programs and his grandfather is a professional bell ringer. James takes piano, clarinet and recorder lessons, and enjoys the music and activities at his church. Viewers can see the family enjoying dinner and visiting a local street fair, and we learn how religious freedom and democratic policies have attracted people to this country.
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Families of United Kingdom
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1-888194-38-3
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690678 001432
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2002
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$29.95
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Families of Egypt
30 minutes
In Egypt, we visit two Muslim families. Seven year old Yasmine and her brother live near Cairo in a development surrounding a golf/tennis club, where her mother manages the tennis program. Her father works for an international oil company. Yasmine goes to an international school where classes are taught in English, and she takes French and Arabic. She loves her ballet class and tennis lessons. They buy groceries at a supermarket and go to a toy store to buy a birthday gift for a friend. On Saturdays, the family has lunch with one set of grandparents and dinner with the other, making for a great weekend together.
In Luxor, famous for its monuments and Valley of the Kings tombs, 6 year old Hesham lives with his parents, sister and week-old brother. His father supervises workers who maintain and restore one of the largest tombs in Valley of the Kings. They are staying with their grandparents while his mother recuperates from giving birth. Hesham then attends a big celebration for the one-week birthday of the baby and eats with the family. Later, Hesham and his father pray together, and have a picnic on a boat with the other children.
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Families of Egypt |
1-888194-41-3 |
690678 001739 |
2002
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$29.95
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Families of France
30 minutes
Families of France takes us to Lyon, where we visit 10 year old Emilien and his family. Emilien and his two sisters live alternate weeks between their parents, who are divorced. His father, a laboratory technician, tests washing machines, and his mother is a professional musician. Viewers see Emilien and his siblings at both their mother and father’s apartments, at school, playing basketball, swimming, and accompanying their father to his Aikido lesson. Amazingly, there’s still time for a fun sing-along with their cousins.
We also meet 9 year old Camille, whose family runs a vineyard and winery in Beaujolais. We see the sumptuous school meal prepared by nearby restaurant, hear students recite Moliere, visit the vineyards and a local bakery, accompany Camille to her riding lesson, witness a demonstration by doctors and teachers, and join the family celebration of Three Kings Day.
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Families of France |
1-888194-40-5
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690678 001630
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2002
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$29.95
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Families of Vietnam
30 minutes
Award: Oppenheim Gold Award, Booklist recommended.
In Families of Vietnam, four-year-old Tran Ngoc Anh Thu (Bi) lives by Mekong river with her family. She attends school and enjoys spending time with her friends and older brother. Her parents work their farm and banana and papaya plantation in the morning, then set off on their "boat store," selling small livestock, fruits and vegetables and grains to customers out on the river.
In Ho Chi Minh city, nine-year-old Le Thi Thanh Hong goes to school where she studies French, art and reading; plays games with friends; and enjoys a rest period. Her parents both work for the city. After school the family enjoys bowling, then Hong practices piano. Homework, with help from her brother, follows, and then it's off to bed with the growing anticipation of tomorrow's Vietnam's New Year. The next day Hong enjoys swimming at the community pool and the New Year Tet festivities, including the dragon dancing and fireworks
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Families of Vietnam
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1-888194-45-6
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690678001838
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2004
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$29.95
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Families of Canada
30 minutes
Seven-year-old Hannah lives in a province called Novia Scotia, which is on an island, and takes two buses and a ferry to school in the morning. We will watch Hannah's father catch lobsters and visit her mother at the dentist office. After school Hannah plays with her pets, participates in piano lessons and helps her family prepare dinner.
Eleven-year-old John lives on the outskirts of Toronto, a major city in Canada. John gets to spend his Thanksgiving holiday with this family where they will eat a big turkey dinner and spend the day away from school and work since it is a national holiday. We will visit John at his school where he studies many subjects including French, one of the main languages of Canada.
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Families of Canada DVD
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1-888194-12-X |
690678 007793 |
2005
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$29.95
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| Families of Canada VHS |
1-888194-20-0 |
690687 001937 |
2005 |
$29.95 |
Complete
list of series titles in DVDs
| Master ID |
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| MC491X |
Families
of Australia *NEW* |
1-888194-91-X
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978-1-888194-91-3 |
690678
007892 |
$29.95 |
| MC4626 |
Families of Brazil |
1-888194-62-6
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978-1-888194-62-3 |
690678 004495 |
$29.95 |
| MC412X |
Families of Canada
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1-888194-12-X
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978-1-888194-12-8 |
690678 007793 |
$29.95 |
| MC4618 |
Families of China |
1-888194-61-8
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978-1-888194-61-6 |
690678 004396 |
$29.95 |
| MC4715 |
Families of Egypt
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1-888194-71-5
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978-1-888194-71-5 |
690678 005393 |
$29.95 |
| MC4707 |
Families of France |
1-888194-70-7
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978-1-888194-70-8 |
690678 005294 |
$29.95 |
| MC4650 |
Families of Ghana |
1-888194-65-0
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978-1-888194-65-4 |
690678 004792 |
$29.95 |
| MC4561 |
Families of India |
1-888194-56-1
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978-1-888194-56-2 |
690678 003894 |
$29.95 |
| MC4669 |
Families of Israel |
1-888194-66-9
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978-1-888194-66-1 |
690678 004891 |
$29.95 |
| MC4596 |
Families of Japan |
1-888194-59-6
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978-1-888194-59-3 |
690678 004198 |
$29.95 |
| MC4677 |
Families of Korea |
1-888194-67-7
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978-1-888194-67-8 |
690678 004990 |
$29.95 |
| MC4588 |
Families of Mexico
(English and Spanish) |
1-888194-58-8
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978-1-888194-58-6 |
690678 004099 |
$29.95 |
| MC4634 |
Families of Puerto
Rico |
1-888194-63-4
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978-1-888194-63-0 |
690678 004594 |
$29.95 |
| MC4693 |
Families of Russia |
1-888194-69-3 |
978-1-888194-69-2 |
690678 005195 |
$29.95 |
| MC460X |
Families of Sweden |
1-888194-60-X
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978-1-888194-60-9 |
690678 004297 |
$29.95 |
| MC457X |
Families of Thailand |
1-888194-57-X
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978-1-888194-57-9 |
690678 003993 |
$29.95 |
| MC4685 |
Families
of United Kingdom |
1-888194-68-5
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978-1-888194-68-5 |
690678
005096 |
$29.95 |
| MC4642 |
Families of USA |
1-888194-64-2
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978-1-888194-64-7 |
690678 004693 |
$29.95 |
| MC4723 |
Families of Vietnam
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1-888194-72-3
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978-1-888194-72-2 |
690678 005492 |
$29.95 |
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