The girls packed their donkeys high with grass bundles and we made our way back to Idlerson village: (there hardly being a tree to be seen in all this distance) the girls walking this time though occasionally taking a ride on our mule. In this lesson, we will explore images of the families' journeys through the landscapes of Australia and Morocco. The book is a great tool for striking up conversations with your child about poverty and wealth, simplicity and technology, rural and urban settings.

I shout out and sign to ask if I’m going the right way and she walks down to me and invites me to her home for tea. We were both still half asleep and with the motion of the mule pushing us onward and sitting motionless astride its back, it felt as though we were being propelled through a dream. We pass two villages of mud homes, the one on the left has a crumbling tower with a storks nest perched on top. At about 6am just as dawn was starting, we stopped, tethered our mules or donkeys and the girls had soon made a blazing grass fire. The women in the Valley of Roses often wore their headscarves with a large distinctive knot sticking upright at the top of their head.It lets you experience the lives of two little boys - one from an urban family in Sydney, Australia, the other from Morocco. Two diverse countries and cultures are linked with warmth and charm in this two-in-one picture book.

It starts with the morning routines for each of the families, then it shows what seems to be their daily commute, in Australia, they are in a car stuck in traffic and in Morocco, they are riding a donkey through the desert.There were no words to actually tell you what was going on and I think that a book like this that was very important because it is good for kids to understand and realize that there are kids just like them living their lives in different parts of the world, but somehow their daily lives are very similar. But for the elderly, the superstitious and the traditional, they serve a vital purpose: they are protectors against the evil eye, bringers of good luck and bountiful harvests.

This resource provides Super Six activities on Mirror by Jeannie Baker, and is suitable for an upper primary classroom (approx Year 3-6). This innovative picture book comprises two stories designed to be read simultaneously – one from the left, the other from the right. We see that in the context of strikingly different lifestyles, remotely different countries, landscapes, differences of clothing and all, the families are essentially the same. We pass the country trekked the previous day and on to a series of caves, the home of a family of nomads. This shows children the similarities and differences in our culture compared to others and challenges stereotypes about people's lives.Lahcen hired a mule for the morning (at some cost to me) He also borrowed a traditional dagger and shoulder bag and a ‘baby’ (a boy of about two, older than I’d wanted. The book, Mirror, by Jeannie Baker is very unique, there are two sides to the book that mirror each other. Each year the labour gets harder as they need to travel further to find new suitable areas of grass.