Author: Cornelia Maude Spelman
Illustrator: Alea Marley
Genre: Poetry
Major Awards: N/A
Age Group: PreKindergarten - 3rd
Summary: Everybody's somewhere, where are you? They may be in the country, town, but everybody is someone somewhere. Maybe they are in a plane or in a car, are they close to you or are they far? Someone is underneath the stars, treetops, or running on the ground. If only you could be where they are. No matter where one is on the earth or their imagination, there is always somebody somewhere doing something similar to them, or it may be different, too.
Evaluation & Comments: I would love to use this book in my class for younger students! It has colorful illustrations and each one of the drawings goes with the words so the students can associate meaning with drawing. I think it is important for the students to learn about how, because the world is so big, there are going to be people who you haven't met yet and they are going to be somewhere on the earth doing something either the same as you, or different. For younger students, it might take some time for them to turn their heads around this concept, but I feel like this book may be a resource to help them as it gives examples. As an activity, I could have my students do a drawing for me of what they like to do. Once they are done drawing, or bring them back after they do it at home, is that they could share it with the class and we would see if any students have similar things/interests from one another.
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