Juan Castell and Aunt Sofia’s Giant Book of Please, Thank You, Welcome by Ian Sadler

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An educational, beautiful book with interesting illustrations and interesting prose…

Juan, a polite young boy, is preparing for aliens’ visit to the earth as everyone else in the world is doing. He is already good at using the words ‘please’, ‘sorry’, and ‘thank you’ but learns from her aunt Sofia that it never hurts to learn to say all those words in different languages. Aunt Sofia asks Juan to help with writing of Giant Book of Please, Thank you, Welcome. Juan takes on the task with sheer enthusiasm, and with the help of different individuals and animals from different countries, he travels to each respective country and learns to say words of basic etiquettes in their native language. He finishes writing his part of the book then and receives notes of thank you from people all around the world. Through the book, the author introduces the words of basic etiquettes in Spanish, Hindi, French, and Mandarin to children. The book also teaches children about location of Spain, India, France. and China on the world map, and from there, the children can be encouraged to find other countries on the world map. There are illustrative activities at the end of the book to teach children about world geography. The narration is done in rhymes and will keep the children interested in the book. The illustrations are a pleasure to look at. An educational, beautiful book with interesting illustrations and interesting prose.