I Won’t Go to China (Bridges)

Product Description
Bridges: Multi-cultural books for a diverse world
Bridges is a new series of books for children celebrating Ireland’s ethnic and cultural diversity. Beautiful full-colour hardback books with high quality stories and engaging illustrations, Bridges can help children with their understanding of different cultures and of the many different experiences of living in Ireland today. With story levels that are accessible to a wide age range, Bridges can be enjoyed by children with a wide range of language proficiency and differing reading abilities.

Bridging sameness and difference
Bridging cultures
Building reading success
Reviews
‘distinctively illustrated by artists from the Cartoon Saloon’ — Books Ireland

‘a handsome collection of full-colour picture books ! Well-written, entertaining and enlightening stories for children’ — Books Ireland

‘particularly attractive ! For reading aloud in class’ — Inis Magazine

‘highly recommended’ — Inis Magazine

‘a timely series that will be invaluable both in the school and home environment ! These thought-provoking books will be of immense value to teachers, parents and of course children’ — Inis Magazine

‘exuberant’ — Inis Magazine

‘Editor’s Choice’

‘attractive and important’ — Inis Magazine Winter 2009

‘innovative and exciting’ — RTE Guide

‘appropriate and timely’ — Irish Examiner

‘aimed at age six and upwards, this excellent and enjoyable non-preachy series ! Should be in every school’ — Irish Examiner

‘[Bridges] introduce us to some of the newer cultures in our island in warm and sympathetic fashion’ — Sunday Independent

‘an excellent and thought-provoking new series of multicultural books from O’Brien’ — Sunday Independent

‘captivating as well as educational’ — Woman’s Way Product Description

Poor Chang-ming! He has been picked for the school team but his family will be in China then, visiting his grandma. It’s not fair.

‘I won’t go to China,’ he decides. But what about Grandma? And isn’t a visit to China the most exciting thing ever? Especially when it’s Chinese new year? Chang-ming doesn’t think so! But China is full of surprises. This is a new series of books for modern, multi-cultural Ireland for children aged 6-8.