Rosemary McCarney

The Way to School - Plan International Canada Books Rosemary McCarney

Brief Description: Your way to school might be by yellow bus, bicycle or car, but around the world children are also getting to class by canoe, through tunnels, up ladders, by donkey, water buffalo or ox cart. In Rosemary McCarney's The Way to School, a collection of gorgeous, full-color photographs of schoolchildren from Myanmar, Ghana, Brazil, China, Canada and beyond, readers will see that the path to school can be "long and hard and even scary" depending on the lay of the land, the weather, even natural disasters. Publisher Marketing: Minimal text and stunning photographs from around the world describe the remarkable, often dangerous journeys children make every day on their way to and from school. No simple school bus picks them up each day, but rather children travel through disaster zones, cross rapids, climb mountains, and maneuver on ziplines daily to get to the classroom. Some of them even carry their desks! Review Citations:

Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2015 (EAN 9781927583784, Hardcover)

School Library Journal 09/01/2015 pg. 179 (EAN 9781927583784, Hardcover)

Shelf Awareness 09/15/2015 (EAN 9781927583784, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  McCarney, Rosemary Rosemary McCarney is Canada's Ambassador to the Office of the United Nations in Geneva. She was previously president and CEO of Toronto-based Plan Canada where she helped create the very important Because I am a Girl campaign. She is the author of the internationally best-selling "Every Day is Malala Day", "Because I Am a Girl: I Can Change the World", "The Way to School", and the Rosie the Red series. Rosemary lives in Toronto with her familyContributor Bio:  Plan International Plan International is one of the world's oldest and largest international charities, working in partnership with millions of people around the world to end global poverty.