International Peace Day is September 21, but I don't exactly see Hallmark rushing to corner the market on multilingual greeting cards for the occasion. Instead, there's this sweet book to fill a niche you didn't know you needed.
Katz takes us around the world with childlike collages in vivid colors. Each page spread features another child in his or her home environment saying "peace" in the native tongue. We get the biggies (see if you can guess the languages): paz and shanti and mir and he ping and paix, plus a few aboriginal words from places like Bolivia and Australia. Cool, huh?
Of course, Katz neatly sidesteps hotspots like the Middle East, but a table in the back lists "peace" in additional languages, such as Arabic and Hebrew.
But none of them compares to goom-jigi, a Buli word from Ghana. Have a goom-jigi kind of day, everyone.