Follows the intricately drawn, parallel stories of two families: one in an Australian city and another in a North African village, depicting how each follow respective morning routines before embarking on culturally representative shopping trips. Follows the intricately drawn, parallel stories of two families: one in an Australian city and another in a North African village, depicting how each follow respective morning routines before embarking on culturally representative shopping trips. By the author of the award-winning Where the Forest Meets the Sea. Jr Lib Guild. In Sydney, Australia, and in Morocco, two boys and their families have a day of shopping. Readers are invited to compare illustrations in two wordless stories that are intended to be read one from left to right and the other from right to left. An innovative, two-in-one picture book follows a parallel day in the life of two families: one in a Western city and one in a North African village.Somewhere in Sydney, Australia, a boy and his family wake up, eat breakfast, and head out for a busy day of shopping. Meanwhile, in a small village in Morocco, a boy and his family go through their own morning routines and set out to a bustling market. In this ingenious, wordless picture book, readers are invited to compare, page by page, the activities and surroundings of children in two different cultures. Their lives may at first seem quite unalike, but a closer look reveals that there are many things, some unexpected, that connect them as well. Designed to be read side by side — one from the left and the other from the right —these intriguing stories are told entirely through richly detailed collage illustrations.
