Friends Around the World

05 Mongolia – Batana, Child of the Mongolian Steppes

by Tetsuro Shimizu

Life for Batana is split between living in a traditional ger on the unforgiving Mongolian steppes, where he helps with the animals and enjoys to cook, and living in an apartment in Ulaanbaatar, the capital city, where he attends the local school and enjoys all mod-cons. This book offers a peek into the life of Batana, a boy who is as gifted at maths as he is passionate about training horses.

25 x 22 cm, 40 pages, Full-colour photographs and illustrations
First published January 2014