Dress the girl and boy dolls in wonderful traditional costumes for festivals and ceremonies around the world, including beautiful silk saris at an Indian wedding, fabulous flamenco dresses in Spain, a Mexican carnival and a harvest festival in Tibet. There's over 250 stickers of outfits and accessories, and a sticker world map of all the countries.
Emily Bone grew up among the rolling hills of Hampshire, writing stories about the ants and birds in her garden. After studying English at Cambridge, she found her dream job at Usborne in 2007. Since then, she's written about many weird and wonderful creatures, along with books on space, fashion and food.
The most exciting and globetrotting sticker book ever! Thanks to the Sticker Dollies, I have discovered where my favourite shows aired in other parts of the world - mainly, those in the book. Thanks, Usborne!
My daughter has loved the Sticker Dolly Dressing series ever since she got one as a gift a few years ago. I bought some more to save for vacations or other gifts. Of all the books she's played with, I think the Around the World is one of the coolest. Each page focuses on a country and the traditional clothing the people in that country would where for an event. The clothing is described including how they would say the words in those countries. At the end there is a world map where the girls from each country can be placed.
The clothing for each page is labeled and often numbered so kids can put the clothing on in the same order those people would in real life. This does mean sometimes they will put a shirt on and then cover it with another layer so you don't even see the shirt, but my daughter learned that is supposed to demonstrate how these clothes would be worn. I love that she is learning about other countries even if it's just a little snippet about clothes :)
The only downside of this book versus other Sticker Dolly Dressing books is that there isn't much room for creativity. Since the clothing is spelled out step by step, the book wants you to do it that way (which is good for learning) but only a few of the pages have additional stickers to decorate the scene.
Even with that one downside, my daughter still loves this sticker book and has been doing one page a night with me for the last week. She is almost done and wants to take it to school after to teach her friends what she learned about the people around the world. It's definitely a great way to introduce different cultures and people from different places at a young age :)
She loves the sticker part the most, but she decided she actually wants to read the stories. I don't know how many of these there are, but it is a guaranteed easy gift! She read this one with Nana.