Children's non-fiction books
that inspires and educates
ISBN
978-5-907793-02-6
Age
6+
Pages
96
Rights
available worldwide
NOMADS: Traditions and technologies
by
Aigul Nigmetova
illustrations:
Aigul Nigmetova
What if your home did not stay in one place?
For many children, home means a familiar building, a bedroom, and an address. They go out into the world, then come back to the same place. Some families live differently. They pack up their homes and follow their herds. They sleep aboard boats or carry everything they need in a camper van. Others move between countries, working and learning wherever they settle next.
Nomads introduces children to these ways of living through a question they can immediately understand: how do you make a home when you keep moving?
Where do you sleep? How do you cook dinner? Where do you keep your belongings? And what do you take when it is time to leave?
Through illustrated encounters with families and communities, the book explores the practical details that make an unfamiliar way of life feel real. Readers step inside Mongolian gers, visit Arctic reindeer herders, explore Bajau houseboats and see how families organise everyday life in camper vans. Food, clothes, games and celebrations bring each encounter closer to the reader’s own experience: the differences spark curiosity, the familiar details hold the connection.
The book also sets traditional nomadic cultures beside van life and digital nomadism, showing that people move for very different reasons and build their lives around it in very different ways.
Across 96 illustrated pages, Aigul Nigmetova shows how people meet the same everyday needs in deserts, grasslands, Arctic landscapes and at sea, with scientific editing by anthropologist Dmitry Kanunnikov of the Museum of Nomadic Culture. Readers may finish the book seeing their own home a little differently, too.
A starting point every child understands.
Every child has an idea of home, and this book gives them a chance to look at someone else’s. It asks nothing of the reader in the way of prior knowledge, so the cultural discovery stays accessible without a background in anthropology or history.
Details that keep children looking.
How do you take a house apart and put it back together? How do you fit a kitchen, beds and belongings into a vehicle? Homes on the move give children a way into design, materials and everyday problem-solving, and the illustrated scenes leave room to look closely and come back for another read.
Old ways of living, set beside new ones.
Traditional nomadic cultures sit side by side with van life and digital nomadism. For publishers that gives the subject reach: world cultures, geography and practical design alongside ordinary questions about family, possessions and what home means.
