A brief but excellent description of time zones and timekeeping closes the volume. A lovely foldout world map places and names all these children. Details are telling: A little red-beaked bird appears on most of the pages the Frenchman striding along with his briefcase is smoking a cigarette in Dubai, Nadia is watching yet another huge building go up Pablo’s dreams in Mexico City take shape with Aztec symbols. The pictures, in pencil and digital color, fill the tall oblong shape of the book dramatically. The children range in age from newborn, like Diego in Lima, Peru, who is born there at 1 a.m., to teenagers, like Sharon and Peter kissing goodbye in San Francisco at 10 p.m. The moment unfolds with Yasmine in Baghdad, Lilu in the Himalyas, Chen in Shanghai, Allen and Kiana in Honolulu, and so on. in Paris, and Benedict is drinking his hot chocolate before school. “At the same moment,” goes the refrain, it is 7 a.m. in Dakar, Senegal, Keita is helping his father with his catch of fish. Published first in French in 2011, Perrin’s elegant construction looks at children and young people around the globe eastward from the Greenwich meridian.Īt 6 a.m.
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