Tag: Moving with kids

Children, Children and Young Adults, English

Sammy’s next move: Sammy the snail is a travelling snail who lives in different countries

Author: Helen Maffin

Language: English

Summary: Sammy’s Next Move is a wonderful story about a snail named Sammy who lives around the world with his parents. He is a ‘third culture kid’, TCK or global nomad. He often moves to new countries and has to change schools and make new friends. Sammy experiences the feelings and thoughts common to children in similar situations. Sammy is a snail and so he carries his home with him wherever he goes, just as a third culture kid does by knowing that home is where their heart is! Source: amazon.com

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Children, Children and Young Adults, English

Goodbye House, Hello House

Author: Margaret Wild Language: English Summary: A joyful story about moving house and embracing change: This is the last time I’ll fish in this river. This is the last time I’ll run through these trees. This is the last time I’ll dream by this fire … Goodbye, old house. Goodbye. A heartwarming story of letting go and starting anew, of moving from the country to the … Continue reading Goodbye House, Hello House

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English, How-to Guides

Operation Six Continents

Author: Phoebe Liedstrand, Phoebe Ross

Language: English

Summary: Content:

Is it possible to spread your family onto all 6 continents at once?
What you need to know before becoming a Family-on-the-Move
What you should be good at to make this work for your family
Our first overseas experience for our family of 6
The expected and unexpected for a Family-on-the-Move
19 Keys to raising well-balanced Kids-on-the-Move
Post-test—to see if you can make the Family-on-the-Move cut.

Source: amazon.com

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Children, Children and Young Adults, English

Let’s move overseas: the international edition of let’s make a move!

Author: Beverly D. Roman

Language: English

Summary: International moving: a creative visualization activity book for young children.

AUTHOR’S COMMENTS: Let’s Move Overseas was written and designed with illustrations to help children deal with their feelings about a move, as well as give them positive reinforcement and ways to visualize a happy experience in their new home and school in a foreign country. – Source: amazon.com

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English, How-to Guides

Moving with kids: 25 ways to ease your family’s transition to a new home

 

Author: Lori Burgan

Language: English

Summary: Moving to a new home is exciting – but it can be scary and lonely, too. Whether you’re taking your children across town, across the country, or overseas, you have to smooth their path. Drawing on the expertise of families that have relocated many times, Moving with Kids provides the practical advice such families need, including how to: Minimize stress and give children a sense of control; Help kids keep old friends and make new ones fast; Find the right neighborhood and school; Create a sense of belonging in the new community; Use the move to build family unity and children’s self-confidence. Source: Google Books

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Children, Children and Young Adults, English, Italiano, Oceania

The Broccoli family meets the kangaroo – La famiglia Broccoli incontra il canguro

Author: Elena Bertocco

Language: English and Italian

Summary: What’s the story about?
Having fun, and learning to read in another language is what inspired me to write the Broccoli family adventures! The story is about Papa Broccoli an Italian vet who needs to come up with a plan to convince Mama Broccoli and the twins Pietro and Margherita that they should be moving to a far away country, Australia!

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