It's New Year's Day, January 1, and you're having fun sleighriding in the snow—but, strange as it seems, at the very same moment Jomo, in Kenya, is watching a flamingo flying in the starry summer night, while Zé and his family are enjoying a picnic lunch on a sunny Brazilian beach. A simple, amusing text and spectacularly beautiful pictures by ten world-famous artists convey the commonality of humankind as they reveal a day in the lives of children all over the world.

Designed as a first step toward world peace through mutual understanding, this book demonstrates on each dramatic double-page spread both contrasts and similarities in children and their activities in eight very different parts of the world—Australia, Brazil, England, Japan, Kenya, the People's Republic of China, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the United States of America. Readers can also observe how daylight and darkness move around the earth, and will get an entertaining yet meaningful introduction to the idea of time. A clear scientific explanation of these phenomena is provided at the back of the book for parents and older readers. And a brief statement at the beginning sets forth the hopes and dreams of the award-winning artists who collaborated on the book for a happy world of friendship and peace for all children everywhere.

From the dust jacket