"Amazing! Everyone's Commute to School" Rosemary McCarney / Yoshiko Nishida Price: ¥1,650 Author/Translator: Rosemary McCarney, Text; Yoshiko Nishida, Translation Format/Pages: B4 Variant, Hardcover, 34 pages Published: April 18, 2018, 2nd Printing of the First Edition A photo picture book featuring school commutes from around the world, including Japan, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, the United States, China, and Ghana. Series: "Children Living in the World" Volume 1 How do children living in various regions of the world get to school? Walking? Riding a bus or car? Sometimes they have to walk a very long way to school, or carry their own desks and heavy buckets of drinking water. This book contains photos of children from all over the world who bravely go to school every day, overcoming natural disasters, rushing rivers, steep mountain paths, and high cliffs. "Learning is fun," "I can meet my friends," "That's why I go to school"... Their feelings are conveyed. And their earnestness gives us courage and energy. The book includes a photo of Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, at the beginning. Rosemary McCarney Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations and Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva. Former President and CEO of Plan International Canada. She is one of the members who launched Plan International's global campaign "Because I am a girl." The campaign aims to create a world free of poverty, discrimination, and violence by protecting girls from the risks they face and encouraging them to realize their potential. She also worked to establish the UN's "International Day of the Girl Child (October 11)." Her main works include the international bestseller "Malala's Magic Pencil," as well as "Because I am a Girl: The Global Fight for Girls' Education" and "Where Will I Live?" (published by Nishimura Shoten). #RosemaryMcCarney #YoshikoNishida #Yoshiko_Nishida #book #society/education_learning"