One page shows a white haired Pablo Picasso on the beach tickling his young son. Turn the page and see a group of exuberant children jumping around a Head Start classroom in Texas. Turn again-it's a little girl's beaming smile from under a sudsy bath basin in Morocco. This collection of heart-stopping photographs, taken in dozens of countries by some of the most prestigious photographers of all time, invites readers to travel to far away places and frolic alongside kids around the globe.
To accompany these photos, teacher Ayana Lowe asked her young students to react to them, describing what they saw and imagining what the children might be thinking. The results were often unexpected, always thoughtful-and simply marvelous.
At a time when the people of Earth struggle to come closer together, our children's poems and the timeless photographs in this beautifully designed book help reveal that we are more alike than we are different.

AYANA LOWE teaches the cultural arts program at Hunter College elementary school in New York City, a program designed to develop children's understanding of themselves and the world in which they live. For this book, Ayana asked students to react to the photographs of children from all over the world.

THE MAGNUM PHOTO AGENCY is one of the most prestigious agencies of its kind. Founded in 1947 by Henri Cartier-Bresson and several other photographers who were motivated by a sense of relief that the world had survived the Second World War and a curiosity to see where it would go from there. Magnum has agencies in New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo.www.magnumphotos.com