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Picturing the Earth

This is a list of titles of picture books suitable for ages three to six that I have been collecting for future use with my youngest daughter, with an emphasis  on books published in the UK. Many are titles published by two of my favourite picture book publishers - Barefoot Books and Frances Lincoln. Some are series that I have enjoyed using with her older sisters, such as the "Child's Day" series published by Frances Lincoln. Others are from authors or series I have heard recommended ... or are just titles I have stumbled across that sound appealing. Barefoot Books also carry a number of CDs of music from around the world that would be suitable for this age group.


General 

  • W is for World: a Round-the-World ABC (Kathryn Cave) UK
  • P is for Passport (Devin Scillian)
  • My Granny Went to Market: a Round the World Counting Rhyme (Stella Blackstone) UK
  • A Song for Planet Earth (Meredith Hooper) UK
  • Welcome to the World: a Celebration of Birth and Babies from Many Cultures (Nikki Siegen-Smith)
  • How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World (Marion Priceman)
  • Hair: Around the World (Kate Petty)  UK
  • Home: Around the World (Kate Petty) UK
  • Bicycle: Around the World (Kate Petty)  UK
  • Playtime: Around the World (Kate Petty)  UK
  • Acker Backa Boo! Games to Play from Around the World (Opal Dunn and Susan Winter) 


Africa 

  • A is for Africa (Ifeoma Onyefula) UK
  • African Animals ABC (Philippa-Alys Brown) UK
  • An African ABC (Jacqui Taylor)
  • We’re Sailing Down the Nile: a Journey Through Egypt (Laurie Krebs and Anne Wilson) UK
  • Boushra’s Day (Khaled El Dash) - Egypt UK
  • The Day of Ahmed's Secret (Florence Heide and Judith Gilliland) - Egypt UK
  • Nii Kwei’s Day (Catherine McNamara) - Ghana UK
  • Colors of Ghana (Holly Littlefield)
  • Colors of Kenya (Frank Staub and Jeni Reeves)
  • Mama Panya’s Pancakes: A Village Tale from Kenya (Mary and Rich Chamberlin) UK
  • My Sister's Wedding: a Story of Kenya (Waithira Mbuthia and Geoffrey Karanja)
  • Catch that Goat: a Market Day in Nigeria (Polly Alakija) UK
  • Ikenna Goes to Nigeria (Ifeoma Onyefulu)  UK
  • Ebele’s Favourite: a Book of African Games (Ifeoma Onyefulu) UK
  • An African Christmas (Ifeoma Onyefulu)  UK
  • Emeka’s Gift: an African Counting Story (Ifeoma Onyefulu) UK
  • Chidi Only Likes Blue (Ifeoma Onyefulu) UK
  • One Big Family: Sharing Life in an African Village (Ifeoma Onyefulu)  UK
  • Honey ... Honey ... Lion (Jan Brett)
  • Handa’s Surprise (Eileen Browne) UK
  • Handa’s Hen (Eileen Browne) UK
  • Bongani’s Day (Gisele Wolfsohn) - South Africa UK
  • Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book (Muriel L.Feelings) - South Africa
  • One Child, One Seed (Kathryn Cave) - South Africa (counting book) UK
  • South African Animals (Lindiwe Mabuza) - alphabet format 
  • Jamela books (Niki Daly) - South Africa UK
  • To Every Thing There is a Season (Jude Daly) - South Africa (words from Ecclesiastes) UK
  • Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters (John Steptoe)
  • We All Went on Safari: a Counting Journey through Tanzania (Laurie Krebs and Julia Cairns)  UK


America

  • B is for Brazil (Maria de Fatima Campos) UK
  • Cassio’s Day (Maria de Fatima Campos) - Brazil UK
  • The Vanishing Rainforest (Richard Platt) - Brazil UK
  • The Great Kapok Tree: a Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest (Lynne Cherry) 
  • M is for Maple: a Canadian Alphabet (Mike Ulmer and Melanie Rose)
  • The Snow Bears (Jan Brett) - Canada
  • Caribbean Animals (Dawne Allette) 
  • Mia's Story: a Sketchbook of Hopes and Dreams (Michael Foreman) - Chile
  • The Umbrella (Jan Brett) - Costa Rica (rainforest)
  • We’re Sailing to Galapagos: a Week in the Pacific (Laurie Krebs and Grazia Restelli)  UK
  • J is for Jamaica (Benjain Zephaniah) UK
  • Off We Go to Mexico: an Adventure in the Sun (Laurie Krebs and Christopher Corr)  UK
  • M is for Mexico (Flor de Maria Cordero) UK
  • P is for Pinata: a Mexico Alphabet (Tony Johnston) UK
  • Colors of Mexico (Lynn Ainsworth Olawsky)
  • Miracle of the First Poinsettia: A Mexican Christmas Story (Joanne Oppenheim) 
  • Enrique’s Day (Sara Andrea Fajardo) - Peru  UK
  • Carolina's Gift: a Story of Peru (Katacha Diaz and Gredna Landolt)
  • Up and Down the Andes (Laurie Krebs and Aurelia Fronty)  UK
  • Gregory Cool (Caroline Binch) - Tobago  UK
  • Kamal Goes to Trinidad (Malcolm Frederick)  UK
  • A is for America: an American Alphabet (Devin Scillian and Pam Carroll)
  • How to Make a Cherry Pie and See the USA (Marjorie Priceman)
  • This is New York (Miroslav Sasek)
  • This is San Francisco (Miroslav Sasek)
  • This is Texas (Miroslav Sasek)
  • L is for Last Frontier: an Alaskan Alphabet (Carol Crane and Michael Munroe)
  • Moose Racks, Bear Tracks and Other Alaskan Kidsnacks (Alice Bugni and Shannon Cartright)
  • Colors of the Navajo (Emily Abbink)
  • Armadillo Rodeo (Jan Brett) - United States 

 

Asia

  • We’re Riding on a Caravan: an Adventure on the Silk Road (Laurie Krebs and Helen Cann)  UK
  • Stories from the Silk Road (Cherry Gilchrist) UK
  • C is for China (Sungwan So)  UK
  • Yikang’s Day (Sungwan So) - China UK
  • Little Leap Forward: a Boy in Beijing (Clare Farrow and Helen Cann) UK
  • Shan-Yi Goes to China (Sungwan So) UK
  • Made in China (Deborah Nash)  UK
  • D is for Dancing Dragon: a China Alphabet (Carol Crane and Zong-Zhou Wang)
  • The Five Chinese Brothers (Claire H.Bishop) 
  • The Story About Ping (Marjorie Flack) - China 
  • Daisy Comes Home (Jan Brett) - China
  • Long-Long's New Year (Catherine Gower) - China UK
  • Happy New Year! Kung-Hsi Fa-Ts’ai (Demi) - China 
  • Great Race: the Story of the Chinese Zodiac (Dawn Casey)
  • The Legend of the Kite: a Story of China (Chen Jiang Hong and Boris Moissard)
  • This is Hong Kong (Miroslav Sasek)
  • I is for India (Prodeepta Das) UK
  • Colors of India (Holly Littlefield)
  • Geeta’s Day (Prodeepta Das) - India UK
  • Prita Goes to India (Prodeepta Das) UK
  • Lily’s Garden of India (Jeremy Smith) UK
  • Elephant Dance: a Journey to India (Theresa Heine)  UK
  • Anni's India Diary (Anni Axworthy)
  • Colors of Japan (Holly Littlefield and Helen Byers)
  • Grandfather’s Journey (Allen Say) - Japan 
  • K is for Korea (Hyechong Cheung)  UK
  • Sori's Harvest Moon Day: a Story of Korea (Uk-Bae Lee)
  • P is for Pakistan (Shazia Razzak) UK
  • The Mountains of Tibet (Mordicai Gerstein)  
  • Tenzin’s Deer: a Tibetan Tale (Barbara Soros)  UK 
  • Huy and Vinh’s Day (Jim Holmes) - Vietnam  UK

Middle East
  • Colors of Israel (Laurie Grossman and Helen Byers)
  • This is Israel (Miroslav Sasek)
  • One City, Two Brothers (Chris Smith) - story of Jerusalem UK


Europe

  • Eva's Summer Vacation: a Story of the Czech Republic (Jan Machalek)
  • The Three Golden Keys (Peter Sis) - Prague, Czech Republic
  • Hedgie's Surprise (Jan Brett) -Denmark
  • Colors of France (Helen Byers) 
  • Anni's Diary of France (Anni Axworthy)
  • This is Paris (Miroslave Sasek)
  • Madeline (Ludwig Bemelmans) - France
  • Colors of Germany (Holly Littlefield and Andrea Shine)
  • Berlioz the Bear (Jan Brett) - Germany
  • This is Greece (Miroslav Sasek)
  • S is for Shamrock: an Ireland Alphabet (Eve Bunting and Matt Faulkner) 
  • This is Ireland (Miroslav Sasek)
  • St. Patrick’s Day in the Morning (Jan Brett) - Ireland
  • Tales from Old Ireland (Malachy Doyle) UK
  • This is Rome (Miroslav Sasek)
  • Zoe Sophia's Scrapbook: an Adventure in Venice (Elisa Smalley and Claudia Mauner)
  • This is Venice (Miroslav Sasek)
  • Papa Piccolo (Carol Talley) - Italy
  • Gabriella's Song (Candace Fleming)
  • Guido's Gondola (Renee Riva and Steve Bjorkman)
  • Iina Marja’s Day (Jaako Alatalo) - Lapland UK
  • The Wild Christmas Reindeer (Jan Brett) - Arctic / Lapland
  • A Day on Skates (Hilda Van Stockum) - Netherlands
  • Polina’s Day (Andrey Ilyin) - Russia UK
  • Colors of Russia (Shannon Zemlicka and Jeni Reeves)
  • Max Moves to Moscow (Winifred Riser) - story of a dog in Russia
  • Sasha and Babushka: a Story of Russia (Vladimir Shpitalnik and Cornelia Evans)
  • The Wonderful Life of Russia’s Saint: Sergius of Radonezh (Alvin Alexsi Currier) - Russia
  • The Hat (Jan Brett) - Scandinavia
  • Dear Alexandra: a Story of Switzerland (Helen Gudel)
  • The Mitten (Jan Brett) - Ukraine
        United Kingdom
  • This is Britain (Miroslav Sasek)
  • ABC UK (James Dunn) UK
  • B is for Big Ben: an England Alphabet (Pamela Duncan Edwards and Melanie Rose) 
  • This is London (Miroslav Sasek)
  • Katie in London (Peter Mayhew) UK
  • This is Edinburgh (Miroslav Sasek)

Australasia

  • Colors of Australia (Lynn Ainsworth Olawsky)
  • Stories from the Billabong (James Vance Marshall) - ten aboriginal stories  UK

Antarctica

  • Ice Trap! Shackleton's Incredible Expedition (Meredith Hooper) UK
  • Tom Crean's Rabbit: a True Story from Scott's Last Voyage (Bert Kitchen and Meredith Hooper) UK
  • Ponko and the South Pole (Meredith Hooper) UK