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Somewhere In the World Right Now
School Library Journal called Stacey Schuett's stunning authorial debut "a book that is perfect for sparking an interest in geography, emphasizing the amazing concept that at the same moment we are getting ready to sleep, other people are starting a new day." And in a starred review, Publishers Weekly added, "Schuett proves as nimble with words as with a paintbrush." It's a good-night wish that circles the globe.
40 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
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Stacey Schuett
67 books6 followersStacey Schuett has illustrated more than twenty-five picture books, many about strong leaders in American history. Some titles include Purple Mountain Majesties, Sisters of Scituate Light, and Liberty's Voice: The Story of Emma Lazarus. She lives in California.
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March 20, 2016
What a fantastic, moving book.
Although the story dealt with timezones and how different places in the world are at different times, and even different dates, the part that resonated most with me was the underlying connectedness of the book.
The lyrical words paint pictures that show how even though people are different and undertaking different types (and similar types) of activities all over the world, there is an underlying connectedness of humanity between us all. I also found that the inclusion of different animals from different parts of the world added to that connectedness. We are not just connected to other humans going to school and to work, we are connected to other animals feeling hungry, and sleepy, etc. in the same ways that we do.
Finally, while the words painted pictures the illustrations themselves were truly beautiful and enriched the book throughout.
Although the story dealt with timezones and how different places in the world are at different times, and even different dates, the part that resonated most with me was the underlying connectedness of the book.
The lyrical words paint pictures that show how even though people are different and undertaking different types (and similar types) of activities all over the world, there is an underlying connectedness of humanity between us all. I also found that the inclusion of different animals from different parts of the world added to that connectedness. We are not just connected to other humans going to school and to work, we are connected to other animals feeling hungry, and sleepy, etc. in the same ways that we do.
Finally, while the words painted pictures the illustrations themselves were truly beautiful and enriched the book throughout.
October 9, 2021
And so it begins, two weeks out and the collection has begun to grow in earnest. Received this in the mail today from TK. Beautiful story to add to the nursery library.
March 14, 2012
This is a great book that can be used in math, science or social studies. If used in math I would read this book before talking about different times zone. It can be used in grades 1-3 depending on how in depth you go on the topic. I would have the students pick a country and then compare the country to our time zone. I might give them mock times to focus on and then have them figure out the time in Paris if they are 6 hrs ahead of us.
For science I would also use this with grades 1-3. I would use this at the engage part of the lesson. I could also have the students look at a map and figure out (or I would tell the students depending on grade level) the amount of time a country they are interested in is ahead or behind the US ( eastern time zone). We would could then talk about what students wold be doing at different times in another country. For instance if Paris is 6 hrs ahead, when it is 12pm in our time zone it would be 6 pm in Paris. What would a student be doing in Paris at that time. What would we be doing.
For science I would also use this with grades 1-3. I would use this at the engage part of the lesson. I could also have the students look at a map and figure out (or I would tell the students depending on grade level) the amount of time a country they are interested in is ahead or behind the US ( eastern time zone). We would could then talk about what students wold be doing at different times in another country. For instance if Paris is 6 hrs ahead, when it is 12pm in our time zone it would be 6 pm in Paris. What would a student be doing in Paris at that time. What would we be doing.
June 14, 2008
This is a great bedtime story, I could see it inspiring colorful dreams. It's a book about what's happening all over the world at the same time. What a wonderful, interesting introduction to time zones and the international dateline.
I also like the colors used - purples and blues - and the style of images overlaid on maps to indicate the different locations of the scenes.
Whether in light or darkness, the scenes discussed were mostly universal experiences, eating a meal, going to work, going to bed. I think it can help a child feel more connected to the greater world. It also features some unique scenes, of elephants and koalas, that may get a child thinking of far off places and what may be happening there since it's a different time zone.
The story concludes with bedtime and brings it back to the bedtime story.
I also like the colors used - purples and blues - and the style of images overlaid on maps to indicate the different locations of the scenes.
Whether in light or darkness, the scenes discussed were mostly universal experiences, eating a meal, going to work, going to bed. I think it can help a child feel more connected to the greater world. It also features some unique scenes, of elephants and koalas, that may get a child thinking of far off places and what may be happening there since it's a different time zone.
The story concludes with bedtime and brings it back to the bedtime story.
October 11, 2018
Summary:
This is a book talking about different places in the world that is currently happening. It goes throughout the book explaining all kinds of different things that are happening right now somewhere else in the world. This book explains that even though it’s day time here it might be night time somewhere else or the opposite.
Like or not:
I love this book. I love all the detail that goes into each page. I love that it is easy to read. It repeats “somewhere in the world right now...” to go on to say that different things are happening. I love that at the end of the book it says somewhere in the world right now someone’s reading a book and someone is listening. I think this book would be great for a bedtime story.
Classroom:
Well first of if I had children that had nap time I would read this book. I love how it ends with someone going to sleep! I think this is a good book you could use even if children don’t have a nap time too! I would read this book to my children and then maybe have a lesson on time zones and explain that in different places different things are happening. You could even get a globe and a flash light and spin the globe and you can explain that half the globe gets light and the other half doesn’t. The flash light can represent the sun and you can go into detail how the sun and earth work!
This is a book talking about different places in the world that is currently happening. It goes throughout the book explaining all kinds of different things that are happening right now somewhere else in the world. This book explains that even though it’s day time here it might be night time somewhere else or the opposite.
Like or not:
I love this book. I love all the detail that goes into each page. I love that it is easy to read. It repeats “somewhere in the world right now...” to go on to say that different things are happening. I love that at the end of the book it says somewhere in the world right now someone’s reading a book and someone is listening. I think this book would be great for a bedtime story.
Classroom:
Well first of if I had children that had nap time I would read this book. I love how it ends with someone going to sleep! I think this is a good book you could use even if children don’t have a nap time too! I would read this book to my children and then maybe have a lesson on time zones and explain that in different places different things are happening. You could even get a globe and a flash light and spin the globe and you can explain that half the globe gets light and the other half doesn’t. The flash light can represent the sun and you can go into detail how the sun and earth work!
January 15, 2021
For Christmas, I got this book from my grandma. My mom read it to me. Its a story about somewhere in the world right now, someone is doing something. So you can be sitting down, but there is no way that somewhere in the world right now, no-one is doing anything. The book travels around the world, each page is a different location as you move through time zones around the world. The illustrations are good because they help you to feel like you are there. I like books with good drawings but the drawings aren't super realistic. I would recommend this book because it s kind of satisfying. People who like short books but books that are kind of fun to read (not too short) will like this.
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September 17, 2023What happens at night? What happens in the morning time? This book would be a good book to teach children what happens at night and in the morning before school. An activity that I would do would be for the children to draw pictures and write what they are doing in the morning before school or before bed.
January 16, 2019
Schuett's book is beautiful. Loved the language, the illustrations and how it presents things we humans have in common no matter where we live. It can make bedtime a moment of sharing and reflecting.
I would have liked to see more of the Latin American countries.
I would have liked to see more of the Latin American countries.
March 25, 2019
This is a story about time zones. It tells what kids are doing at a particular time of the day around the globe. It has maps and cities on every page spread. It would be neat to do google earth scavenger hunt from this book.
November 9, 2021
A book for kids about . . . well, about Time Zones. Teaching kids the idea that right now, it is a different time in every time zone around the world, so someone is waking up, someone else having lunch, others dinner, others sleeping at night . . .
May 24, 2018
Book is about the world has illustrarions and pictures It's a little on time and how time changes around the world. At the back there a world time chart. Sweet book I enjoyed reading it.
December 6, 2018
I like the maps in the backgrounds and this is good, but overall I've seen more effective versions of this before.
December 31, 2020
A weet book
June 30, 2021
Cute bedtime book. Great for opening the world up to little minds. Beautiful illustrations.
September 29, 2022
A neat book for lower elementary ages to learn about time zones around the world.
December 30, 2024
I actually read “Somewhere in the world” by Erin Stuedemann but it’s not on here so I had to pick the closest book.
Love being able to read stories written by people I know and this was so cute!!
Love being able to read stories written by people I know and this was so cute!!
September 27, 2021
This book starts by telling you what you are doing right now and then it carries the reader through what other things the world is doing right now and talks about time difference.
This book is good for teaching time zones and cultures that are different than the one we have in our lives. Seeing how other places in the world are can open students minds up to travel and learning about others.
This book is good for teaching time zones and cultures that are different than the one we have in our lives. Seeing how other places in the world are can open students minds up to travel and learning about others.
March 4, 2017
What I really enjoyed about this book is how it gave a very grounded sense that not everywhere on the planet is it the time I am experiencing. It does not just say it but helps the reader experience it. It does this by giving a wide range of possibilities, both by time and geography of what is happening and what time it is. The visual merging of scenes with underlaid maps is a very satisfying and effective technique.
October 14, 2014
An experienced illustrator, first-time author Schuett (I'll See You in My Dreams) proves as nimble with words as with a paintbrush. At 8:00 p.m., a child tucked in her bed in Boston listens to her father read a story. But at that very moment, ``Somewhere else, in velvety darkness, elephants sleep standing up, swaying gently from side to side.'' A single moment telescopes into an entire day as Schuett highlights contemporaneous activities around the world, setting her text and illustrations atop background maps. Gently scumbled and luminously colored, these maps supply the geographical location for each vignette. Intimate prose and atmospheric images blend the mundane (``People go to work, stores open''), the exotic (``jaguars glide through the jungle''), the mysterious (``A boy hides a note for a friend to find''), and the humorous (a dog runs off with a worker's lunch). While youngest readers will grasp the basic idea of different ``times'' in different locations, older children will recognize the orderly ``zones'' as the book's vignettes progress from morning to night (and bedtime). More advanced readers may take up the stickier abstractions of the international dateline. So soothingly written and structured that it can double as a bedtime book, this unique work affords an extraordinarily compelling, clear approach to a complex topic. Ages 4-8. (Aug.)
[Review of Somewhere in the world right now, by S. Schuett]. (1995, July 31). Publisher Weekly. Retrieved from http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0...
[Review of Somewhere in the world right now, by S. Schuett]. (1995, July 31). Publisher Weekly. Retrieved from http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0...
October 30, 2012
The illustrations in the book were wonderful and full of smooth colors. I would use this book in my fourth grade classroom to discuss geography since the book goes around the world at night and morning, and introduce day and night times around the world and why it is different. The activity we did in science was simple but really showed the students how day and night change throughout the year and you can do any city you want. We used the time charts from the military website and the students found the sunrise and sunset for different months. After, they colored there section in. Then all of the students put their charts in order to see the rise and fall of sunrise and sunset throughout the year. It would be interesting to do a city from the northern and southern hemisphere to show the differences there and talk about seasons, sunlight, hemispheres, etc. This could also count as a math lesson discussing another type of graph/chart that can be used and how it is used in real life.
October 23, 2009
Designed to be a bedtime story, the book also discusses the worldwide system of standard times and has a map at the beginning and end showing how time changes around the world in the 24 time zones.
But, the book is also a beatuiful lullaby about how people throughout the world are both different and similar. The repeated line, "somewhere in the world right now" serves as a guide through countless countries and across the United States looking at how people live at any one moment on the earth.
The pictures are all bordered by colorful maps that show where the action is taking place. The illustrations are detailed colored pencil and pastels in rich, earthy colors. Each page is intricate.
But, the book is also a beatuiful lullaby about how people throughout the world are both different and similar. The repeated line, "somewhere in the world right now" serves as a guide through countless countries and across the United States looking at how people live at any one moment on the earth.
The pictures are all bordered by colorful maps that show where the action is taking place. The illustrations are detailed colored pencil and pastels in rich, earthy colors. Each page is intricate.
April 21, 2012
Somewhere in the World Right Now by Stacey Schuett is a great book that can be used for a variety of lessons. It can be used in a science lesson to teach students about different time zones around the world which can lead to a great math lesson on time. It can also be used to teach young students about shadows and day and night. It can be used to teach students about the sun and the moon and why they appear in parts of the world at different times. This book can also be used in a social studies lesson on different continents and places around the world. I would use this book in grades 1st-4th grade.
March 17, 2012
The book Somewhere in the World Right Now by Stacey Schuett can be used in Math, Science, and Social Studies lessons. This book can be used for lessons on time zones and telling time during the day(day and night cycle of Earth). This book can also be used for lessons on the sun and moon. This book can also be used for lessons on continents and different animals around the world. The is book can be used in 4th grade classrooms to teach lesson on the solar system. This book can also be used in in 1st-2nd grade classrooms for lessons on shadows, sun , and moon. This book can also be used in 1st-2nd grade classrooms for lessons on time, and the day/night cycle of Earth.
March 16, 2022
This book opens with a note to the reader about the creation of the time zone system. This book then continues on as the author describes the activities people may be participating in at different spots around the world depending on the time zone they may be in. This book features pictures of different cultures and the activities they participate in throughout the day. This book also includes a page of activities that can be done with the reading at the beginning and ending of the book. This book would be great to use in a unit about time zones and geography!
Six Traits +1 - Sentence Fluency
Lexile: 550L
Guided Reading: Level L
ATOS: 2.6
Six Traits +1 - Sentence Fluency
Lexile: 550L
Guided Reading: Level L
ATOS: 2.6
September 1, 2011
The first page shows a world map with time zones marked...which caught my kids attention right away. Then each page describes what someone is doing in different locations around the world. I really appreciated that they picked a few places that don't seem to be talked about as often (for example, Bhutan, Uganda and Jamaica..even the penguins in Antarctica). I also liked how the illustrations were placed on top of a map of that country/region. Fun story..and nice introduction to maps and the concept of how the time is different around the world.
November 19, 2011
This book touches on the subjects of time (math), social studies and science. Different parts of the world experience different time zones and also introduces different phases of the moon. Children can point out where other family members live and what time zones they may be in. Also, if children have traveled outside of the US, they can mark it on the map and relate that time zone to ours. If children haven't traveled outside the US, then they can mark places they would like to go and the time zone it is in. Introduce the phases of the moon depending on the grade level.
April 5, 2012
This is a great book you can use to teach many different things, math, science, social studies, language arts, geography or any lesson involving time. It can be used for grades k-4 and is perfect for introducing a new lesson. The time part can be used for math and science. Phases of the moon, time zones, the earth's cycles and night and day are just some of the topics you can cover in a science classroom. This text could be used to cultural differences as well. I shows how we are all connected, different and the same.
March 18, 2012
Somewhere in the World Right Now is about how there are different time zones in the world. Even though it is night on one side of the world, it can be day on the opposite side.
I can use this book in a science lesson to teach about night and day as well as time zones. Also I can use it to show different parts of the world with social studies. My students will have to use math to figure out what time it is in one part of the world compared to the other part of the world based on the number of time zones between them.
I can use this book in a science lesson to teach about night and day as well as time zones. Also I can use it to show different parts of the world with social studies. My students will have to use math to figure out what time it is in one part of the world compared to the other part of the world based on the number of time zones between them.
April 1, 2012
This is a great book to read during the engage portion of a unit on time zones with 2-4 graders. I would first read the book. Then I would have the students pick a country that they would like to visit. We would look at a map that has the different time zones on it and discuss the different things that someone from the country they picked might be doing at the same time as someone in the US. I would like the students to understand that it is different times throughout the world. When we are sleep, people in another country are getting up.
November 15, 2011
So as I type this review, what time is it in India? This is an example of the thoughts that come to students' mind upon reading this book. Great source for discussion. Whether teaching the concept of time or places around the world or different cultures, this book is a good resource to have on hand. After reading this book, have students write an example of their hourly schedule and compare to another time zone.
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