Monday, September 20, 2010

Getting Children Interested in Traveling Like Babar

Yesterday while my wife was working (incoming first-year students arrived at the University of Chicago yesterday) I took my children to the 57th Street Book Fair in my neighborhood (Hyde Park, Chicago).  It was a great time and my kids were excited to have me purchase a bunch of new books for them!  While browsing through all of the book stands I came across the book “The Travels of Babar” [affiliate link] and I started thinking about children’s books that take the reader to far away places and instill an excitement and curiosity for travel and meeting others who are different than themselves. 

What books do you recommend for children (say ages 1 to 12) that will hopefully educate and bring about an excitement for travel and adventure in far away lands?  

Perhaps a similar post to IHEC Blog about children's television programs and movies will surface in the future (I wanted to do this over a year ago but alas time got away from me).

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  1. Brooke - Inside Study AbroadSeptember 20, 2010 at 1:24 PM

    A friend gave me "Pepito's Speech to the United Nations" once as sort of a gag gift. It's from the 80s but cute.

    http://www.amazon.com/Pepitos-Speech-At-United-Nations/dp/B001EZ3IWW/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1285006985&sr=8-3-fkmr1

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  2. Jessica GuiverSeptember 20, 2010 at 4:21 PM

    There are a couple of good children's atlases available. Everytime I go on an overseas recruitment trip, I tell my son who is three where I'm going and we look it up. Then when I come back we look at photos of where I've been. He then gets excited when he sees a place I've been (like Hong Kong) on TV, and he points to the TV and says "Mummy, you've been there!"

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  3. villa lloretSeptember 24, 2010 at 2:19 AM

    There are many travel books which are beneficial for children. Some of them are as follows-
    1 JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH
    2 WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
    3 WHERE THE MOUNTAIN MEETS THE MOON
    4 THREE CUPS OF TEA
    5 THE MYSTERIOUS BENEDICT SOCIETY AND THE PERILOUS JOURNEY
    These books hopefully educate and bring about an excitement for travel and adventure in far away lands?

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