Children's Everywhere

Children's Everywhere (also known as Children of the World) is a Swedish photo book series by Rabén & Sjögren, that deals with the daily lives of children around the world in the 1950s and 1960s. The illustration are made by Anna Riwkin-Brick. The writers are Astrid Lindgren, Elly Jannes, Leah Goldberg or Cordelia Edvardson.

Story

The book series deals with children from Europe, Asia or Africa, and also one from USA (Hawaii) whose everyday lives are described with images and a small text. It should give a small impression of the lives in different countries.

Background

The photo book series was first published in Swedish by Rabén & Sjögren. The first book from the series (Elle Kari) was released in 1951. At first Anna Riwkin-Brick took photographs of Elle-Kari and her surrounding and then Elly Jannes wrote the story.^[1] The book series was translated into 18 additional languages, including English, German (titled: Kinder unserer Welt – Children of our World^[2]) and Hebrew (titled: ילדי העולם – Children of the World).^[3] The first editions in Germany and the United Kingdom alone included 25,000 copies.^[4] The book was followed by 14 more books, which were sold more than 900,000 times. The stories are based on true events.

Cooperation with Astrid Lindgren

New York Herald Tribunes Spring Festival Award

• 1963:
  Sia lives on Kilimanjaro (Sia bor på Kilimandjaro): Children's Spring Book^[3]

Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis

• 1960:
  Sia lives on Kilimanjaro (Sia bor på Kilimandjaro): picture book^[9]
• 1966: Randi lives in Norway (Randi bor i Norge): picture book[10]

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