This is a factory sealed autographed Matthew Traveled Around the World book and cassette. It is an innovative example of children's literature utilizing sensory effects to the fullest! While introducing music, rhythm, and adventure, Connie Kawehi Mc Hugh bridges the gap between a geography lesson and a child's sense of adventure, curiosity, and energy. New standards in education are currently being reviewed and introduced globally. The United States has been working diligently setting a criterion. The New Jersey Core Curriculum Standards have already incorporated more geography, social studies, and foreign language. Connie Kawehi Mc Hugh's first in a series of learning adventures helps to link these standards in way no child could resist. While the introduction to a whole new world for young children can be overwhelming, her book touches the reader in a way that ANY CHILD will be sure to want to TRAVEL WITH MATTHEW and EXPLORE THEIR WORLD. It is certainly a valuable teaching resource which helps to make their initiation into our multi-cultural world a little cozier. The illustrations are colorful and warm. Matthew Traveled Around the World also comes complete with a read along MUSICAL CASSETTE/CD which also teaches pre-schoolers and young children reading, counting, and foreign languages while singing, dancing and marching to lively rhythms of Connie's original music representing fascinating regions around the world. LANGUAGE FLASH CARDS are also provided for each country. Volume I includes visits to Mexico, Brazil, Italy, China, Japan, Australia, Africa, Antarctica and Hawaii. S&H will be calculated based upon your location by the ebay calculator.