This large board book depicts different families and businesses on a busy multicultural street in a European city. The reader is able to contemplate the meaning of cultural identity through the different settings and contexts expressed in each panorama. Attentive readers will spot connections between each image, which is resolved in the final page of the book, in which the different groups of people come together for a celebration. This powerful work encourages readers to explore ideas of identity and difference in its explicit depiction of multicultural and multi-ethnic Europe. Children will be able to consider the cultural significance of different types of food and shops in the construction of contemporary identities and European life. This includes the depiction of different faiths.
