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Kids and States Editions Review

Barbara Ripp Safford,
School Library Media Activities Monthly

“Anyone and everyone who travels overseas—from the business warrior to the casual tourist—should have a set of CultureGrams on their reference shelf. It is the best single resource for insights into 170 different countries: greetings, lifestyles, history, gestures, dietary practices, demographics, recreation, personal appearance, religion, holidays, and other valuable information. If you travel outside the U.S., CultureGrams is a must!”

Roger E. Axtell,
Author of the nine-book Do’s and Taboos series

“Differences in cultures and customs can make international travel exciting, but they can make it risky, too: no one enjoys getting inexplicable glares at the dinner table or discovering that an innocent remark has been taken as an insult. CultureGrams are a simple way to prevent such faux pas.”

TIME Magazine International

“CultureGrams’ reliance on native writers and reviewers to provide balanced and accurate information for each country is what distinguishes them from most other sources of cultural information. The reports are concise, clearly written, and current.”

Vladimir Wertsman,
Chair,
Publishing and Multicultural Materials Committee
of Ethnic Materials Information Exchange Roundtable,
American Library Association

“CultureGrams are like ‘liquid gold’ to my high school students, both geography, foreign language, and Model UN club.”

Charlie Makela,
Library Media & Technology Specialist,
Virginia Department of Education,
Richmond, VA

"In an ocean of reference literature, CultureGrams has through the years remained unique worldwide, in the sense that only here can you find, along with most of the standard data, a picture of a nation's cultural life, habits, and attitudes which is not only comprehensive and convincing but also fascinating to read. Especially significant are the equal portraits of smaller nations, without whom the world would lose much of its cultural diversity and richness, but who do not often get a chance to have comprehensive coverage."

George Khutsishvili,
Professor of peace and conflict studies,
Founder and Director,
International Center on Conflict and Negotiation,
Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia

“I would like to compliment your staff on presenting a wealth of information in a very clear and organized way. You have done an excellent job of extracting the essential.”

Peace Corps volunteer