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K-3What's It Like to Live In...? series.
These two country snapshots briefly cover such topics as landscape, transportation, weather, housing, industry, and festivals. Newly independent readers will garner some basic information from the simple, easy-to-read text and minimally captioned color photos, but, overall, these presentations are slight. A scrapbook section of random "things you might find" in each country and a list of French or Italian words are appended. Glos., ind. [Review covers these What's It Like to Live In...? titles: France and Italy.]