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Market!
Go on a trip around the globe and visit the marketplace! With gorgeous watercolor paintings, Ted Lewin’s Market! is a beautiful and child-friendly look at diverse cultures around the world. From the highlands of the Andes to the steamy jungles of central Africa, from the fabled souks of Morocco to the tough New York waterfront, people come to the market. They come barefoot and bent with backbreaking loads, they come on jungle trials and roads jammed with traffic. They even come by canoe! They come any way they can to sell, to catch, to make, and to buy.
48 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 1996
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November 29, 2017
Genre: Informational
Reading Level: 2-4
This book was really engaging. The thing I liked most about this book is how it shows a diverse perceptive. I love how it showcases marketplaces all around the world. I also loved the illustrations of the marketplace. One of my favorite things about this book is that it did not compare all the markets to how it is different than a market place in the US.
Reading Level: 2-4
This book was really engaging. The thing I liked most about this book is how it shows a diverse perceptive. I love how it showcases marketplaces all around the world. I also loved the illustrations of the marketplace. One of my favorite things about this book is that it did not compare all the markets to how it is different than a market place in the US.
September 16, 2022
Visit markets from various parts of the world. Coupled with beautiful watercolor pictures, are the going ons of markets of differing cultures: Ecuador, Nepal, Ireland, Uganda, America, and Morocco.
June 11, 2023
This book travels the world to visit a variety of markets.
March 1, 2011
Published: 1996, Lothrop, Lee & Shepherd Books
Age: 5 and up
Lewin takes the reader to famous marketplaces around the world. He describes how they barter for lower prices and the ethnic goods that they sell in different parts of the world. The illustrations, which are watercolor paintings made from photographs Lewin took, are vivid, detailed, and fascinating, capturing the bustle and action going on. The reader feels like they are right in the middle of it all and the people’s faces look like they are sometimes looking at you. The uniqueness of each culture is captured in the food and wares they sell, the clothing they wear, and the setting of the marketplace. Children can compare the marketplace to shopping in a grocery store. He also describes how the people get to the marketplace, sometimes walking a long distance, sometimes on a donkey. This would be an excellent book to go along with a social studies lesson on cultures and ethnicities. Crowded marketplaces are explored from New York City’s Fulton Fish Market, to Morocco, Uganda, Ireland, Equador, and Nepal. The end shows a vast, quiet sand dune in the Sahara that could “bury the market forever.”
Age: 5 and up
Lewin takes the reader to famous marketplaces around the world. He describes how they barter for lower prices and the ethnic goods that they sell in different parts of the world. The illustrations, which are watercolor paintings made from photographs Lewin took, are vivid, detailed, and fascinating, capturing the bustle and action going on. The reader feels like they are right in the middle of it all and the people’s faces look like they are sometimes looking at you. The uniqueness of each culture is captured in the food and wares they sell, the clothing they wear, and the setting of the marketplace. Children can compare the marketplace to shopping in a grocery store. He also describes how the people get to the marketplace, sometimes walking a long distance, sometimes on a donkey. This would be an excellent book to go along with a social studies lesson on cultures and ethnicities. Crowded marketplaces are explored from New York City’s Fulton Fish Market, to Morocco, Uganda, Ireland, Equador, and Nepal. The end shows a vast, quiet sand dune in the Sahara that could “bury the market forever.”
July 19, 2010
Market is a great book to introduce students to economics and the marketplace. This book is a great starting point for student inquiry. Teachers could ask students to explain why some places around the world sell things that other places do not. From this discussion, students will be able to begin examining the differing prices of items around the world along with other more complex ideas about trade. In addition, Market allows students to vicariously see buying and selling within other cultures that they may not have been previously exposed to. The illustrations show beautiful accounts of people and goods. Students will be able to relate to these instances of trade around the world since the author includes an example in New York City.
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