Best Selling Books by Maya Ajmera

There is no typical American child. Children may share similar activities and pastimes, but they represent a variety of ethnic, cultural, and religious backgrounds. Published in conjunction with The Global Fund for Children.

Clean air is essential for all living creatures—plants, animals, and people—to live healthy lives. Every Breath We Take is a positive, life-affirming look at clean air, with a subtle message about how air can be dirtied—and how it can be cleaned up. Photographs of beautiful children around the world exploring air through touch, smell, sound, and sight underscore the importance of clean air to all life on earth. This is science that surrounds us. The first step to cherishing something is recognizing its importance and understanding why it is necessary. A portion of the proceeds from the sales of this book will be donated to Moms Clean Air Force, a national movement of over a half million moms, dads, and grandparents who are protecting the right of every child to breathe clean air.

BACK TO SCHOOL invites young minds to sit in the front row and share the exciting experience of learning with kids just like themselves all over the world. Whether they take a school bus, a boat, or a rickshaw to get there, kids around the globe are going to school and growing smarter and more curious every day. Beautiful, joy-filled, color photographs of children studying, learning, exploring, and having fun from nation to nation, will inspire readers of all ages with the excitement of discovery and sharing new ideas.

Maya Ajmera and Greg Fields provide the architecture of a new perspective on the global agenda for children, based on a new global web of relationships stemming from the community level. Arguing that the existing global agenda for children has failed, this book reimagines how society can support the world’s most vulnerable children. In doing so, Invisible Children identifies and gives voice to the millions of children globally living on society’s margins, while showing a way forward as to how we can best invest in children.

Photographs from around the world celebrate the universal joy that kids get from making music, whether they’re playing instruments, clapping their hands, stomping their feet, or singing. Music can help express one child’s feelings—or it can bring a whole community together.

Shows how children around the world stay healthy by eating good food, having access to clean water, living in safe homes, and sharing a loving community.

Can you come out and play? If you woke up tomorrow in Egypt with a yen for a good game of tag, you could find it. Then you could hop on your magic carpet and fly to Thailand to play Go Fish with some new friends. Later, you could seesaw until the cows come home in Ireland. Everyone loves to play and the universal appeal of games and goofing around is joyfully evident in COME OUT AND PLAY. Brilliant, full-color photographs portray exuberant, playful kids from over 35 countries engaging in games of all kinds. The It''s a Kid''s World series is dedicated to the fascinating, imaginative lives of children everywhere. Each compact little book is jammed with bright, kinetic photographs of kids from around the world playing, going to school, caring for their animals, and much more. These action-packed and engaging books are sure to inspire and educate young minds about the world around them while introducing them to kids just like themselves.

Describes the special relationship that exists between children and their pet dogs all around the world.

Text and photographs from countries around the world illustrate some of the activities children everywhere have in common.

Families around the world celebrate faith in many different ways—through praying, singing, learning, helping, caring, and more. With stunning photographs from many cultures and religious traditions, Faith celebrates the ways in which people worship around the globe . Thematically organized back matter gives additional information on common expressions of faith, and a glossary describes particular religions and elements of faith depicted in the book. A portion of the proceeds from the sales of this book helps support The Global Fund for Children’s grantmaking to community-based projects serving vulnerable children around the world.

Text and photographs depict how children live in nations across the alphabet, from Australia to Zimbabwe.

Text and photographs of children from around the world focus on various aspects of sports, including physical benefits, the importance of practice, overcoming obstacles, teamwork, and more.

Children around the world express themselves through art, be it music, dance, visual arts, or theater. Beautiful photographs and lyrical text highlight the many ways art can bring us together. A portion of the proceeds help support community-based projects benefiting children around the world.

Text and photographs from countries around the world present activities that children everywhere have in common.

No matter if your friends have feathers or fur or if they''re big or small you need to love and take care of them. Smiling faces from fifteen countries around the world introduce adorable, and sometimes exotic, animal friends. Once again Maya Ajmera and John Ivanko team up to share their vision of teaching youngsters the value of diversity and aiding them to grow into productive, caring citizens of the world. Beautiful and often comical photographs of children and their animal friends from all over the world portray the innocence and joy of childhood and a child''s easy appreciation and love of a favorite pet.

Babies everywhere love their grandparents! Celebrate this bond with the newest addition to the bestselling Global Babies series. Grandparents all over the world have a special connection with their grandbabies. They play, sing, read, eat, and cuddle together. Most of all, grandparents give lots of kisses and so much love! Adorable photos of babies and their grandparents from all around the globe make this book the perfect first read for the toddler in your life and a heartwarming gift for Mother''s Day, Father''s Day, Grandparents'' Day, and baby showers. Part of the proceeds from this book''s sales will be donated to Global Fund for Children to support innovative community-based organizations that serve the world''s most vulnerable children and youth.

Uses colorful photographs to show the clothing and dress of children from places around the globe, including Peru, Uganda, and Sweden.

Complete with a foreword and words of wisdom by Fred Rogers, readers will celebrate diversity as they travel around the world to learn what it means to be a good neighbor in communities across the globe. Around the world, children live in communities with others, sharing homes, resources, and experiences with their neighbors. Through vibrant photographs and simple text, readers will see neighborhoods from Vietnam to the United States, Austria to Kenya and everywhere in between and learn what it means to be part of a community. This celebration of culture, tradition, and friendship will have readers asking “won’t you be my neighbor?”

Grandpa, Bibi, Yeye and Grann . . . This striking album captures the intergenerational relationships between children and grandparents around the world. The brief text and striking photographs bring their joy and affection into focus. Includes a touching foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Emphasizes the qualities, abilities, and achievements of girls from different countries and cultures around the world.

Around the world, children live in community with others, sharing homes, resources, and experiences with their neighbors. Through vivid photographs and heart-warming text, this book celebrates what it means to be a neighbor the whole world over.

Around the world, children live in community with others, sharing homes, resources, and experiences with their neighbors. Through vivid photographs and heart-warming text, this book celebrates what it means to be a neighbor the whole world over.

Text and photographs from countries around the world present activities that children everywhere have in common.

Text and photographs from countries around the world present activities that children everywhere have in common.

Describes the special relationship that exists between children and their pet dogs all around the world.