Currently I sponsor and am a pen pal with a young girl in Rwanda. I was interested in learning more about the place that she calls home. This book overall was pretty dense in its information load and length; however, the book was well organized so that I was able to read about the parts of the country that I was most interested in. This would provide students the opportunity to pull certain aspects from a book that they are looking for rather than reading it from cover to cover. I also really liked how at the end there were facts and maps of the country. This information was easily accessible to me as a reader. The photographs in the book were also very helpful. It is also important to consider when reading texts like this to consider the date that they were published in as some of the information may be outdated.

Reading multicultural books is very important for students to see what it is like in other countries and parts of the world! This book is apart of a series of books written about other countries. These would make for great resources if everyone in the class were researching a different country, but using the same series of books so they would all be able to find the same type of information. ( )