And then she has to collect water from the well, milk the cow, find and collect eggs and bake bread for breakfast. The rug – The Morrocan story begins in the early morning with a women praying on her prayer rug then working on her loom weaving a beautiful carpet.

All Super Six strategies are addressed except for monitoring, as this is more difficult for a shorter picture book text. There is a lot of communication between me and my British editor and designer, and as with this book, its usual for them to question various details and see ways in which I can communicate my ideas more effectively. Even though many of the students could probably relate better to the young boy from Australia, it was important that the students at least attempted to see through the eyes of someone from a different culture than our own. Use our Similarities and Differences Recording Worksheet for your students to make connections to themselves and record their visual comparisons. I decide to stay in Hadida the following day and explore the gorge more slowly and try to meet women weavers in the villages.The collage illustrations really create a sense of reality, and help the reader to associate the book with the real lives of people in Australia and Morocco. I designed the cover so the front cover would be the cover of the Australian journey and the back cover the cover of the Moroccan journey. Her characteristic use of mixed media to create detailed and elaborate collages is stunning and unique.

These worlds, as depicted in my project, couldn’t be further apart, yet with the showing of the parallel lives of the two families in my story, we see a simple truth. As you turn the pages you see their families, what they eat, their surroundings, it's fun to spot the differences and the similarities.The book follows two boys, (the boy on the left lives in Sydney Australia and the one on the right lives in Morocco) as they go about their day. I loved how the two stories ran parallel to each other - this offers an amazing opportunity for discussion around culture, difference, and the links between lives that seem so far apart. Page by page, we experience the lives of two little boys - one from an urban family in Sydney, Australia, the other from Morocco. The hood itself might be folded back to reveal a face or pulled out and mysteriously obscure the face underneath. Mirror creatively expresses the similarities that humans share, despite difference of culture, race, or geography.