My First Book About the World
This series is a collection of texts for children which contains playing activities aimed to encouraging the development of the main cognitive skills following the Montessori method and its most typical topics. The contents follow a progressive complexity to challenge the children to complete various tasks with great results all by themselves. My First Book About the World. Using the Montessori concept of nesting elements where smaller elements are contained in progressively bigger ones, the child can see the logical sequence of their surroundings: to the house, city, country, continent and planet that they calls home. At the end of the book, the world is presented from a wider perspective, space, and from there, the world becomes the Planet Earth. Ages: 6 plus
Chiara Piroddi is a psychologist and expert in Neuropsychology, specialising in Cognitive-Evolutionary Psychotherapy. She graduated in Psychology at the University of Pavia in 2007. She completed her practical training at the Niguarda Hospital and she has written several books for White Star Kids. Agnese Baruzzi was born in 1980 and graduated in Graphic Design. She has worked as an illustrator and author since 2001, writing more than 40 children's books that have been published in Italy, the UK, Japan, Portugal, the US, France and South Korea. She is a long-standing collaborator of White Star, illustrating many books for young children.