Dear Parents,

In this book, we follow the child and his kite, moving from Nazareth to Umm Al-Fahem and Jerusalem, and others cities and villages to learn about the special features of each place.

The child’s relation with place starts with his house, then his kindergarten and neighborhood and then his town. As he grows he becomes curious to learn about new places. We adults might have a cognitive connection to places, to their history or the architecture, but our child’s connection is still more concrete: voices, colors, smells and his personal emotional experience with other people.

When the child learns more about his surroundings, the close one as well as the far distant one, he thinks about its characteristics and if he lives it with people he likes he will have a special connection to it.

This book offers you a chance to go on a journey with your child that will make your home town be the beginning and the end.

• The text starts with a poem about our home town. We can talk with our child about our town’s characteristics, and switch the last sentence with a one that relates to our town.
• Who are our neighbors? We can talk with our child about the nearby villages and towns that he visits sometimes and see what connections he makes to each one.
• The illustrations highlight the most prominent spots in each town and village. We can help our child to identify these spots through the illustrations such as the Dome of Bahai or the light house of Akko.
• Does the book motivate us to go on a journey to different places? It would be nice to go and take family pictures and then hang them on the string in the last two pages of this book. We can also collect all the pictures in a small memory box.
• It would joyful to make colorful kites for the family.