Wanderlust-Inspiring Travel Books for Kids
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 08.07.06 | 1:27 PM ET
World Hum contributor Jerry V. Haines, whose travel book reviews are usually found in the Washington Post, offers a terrific overview of a number children’s travel books in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times. Some of the titles provide advice and information and others offer vicarious travel thrills. “The goal,” he writes, “is to encourage a sense of wanderlust and a desire to learn how other people live.” A fine goal, indeed.
Among the titles included: Travels with My Family by Marie-Louise Gay and David Homel (“a wise-beyond-his-years kid laments the travel choices of his parents, whose desire to get off the beaten track is so intense it leads the family into sandstorms, Mexican political unrest, hurricanes and alligator-infested swamps”); Under the Persimmon Tree 
by Suzanne Fisher Staples (“a compelling young adult novel that not only touches the heart, but also sears it with the cruelties and injustices of war and religious oppression”); and, perhaps the biggest surprise, This is Venice, originally published in 1961 and recently reissued, by Czech writer and illustrator Miroslav Sasek (“the happy cartoon Venetians will effortlessly introduce kids to the city whose motto could be ‘Abandon wheels, all ye who enter here’”).
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
