The Globes Emigrating Children describes one teachers experiences teaching twentyfour immigrant students during their first year in the United States. From diverse places including Vietnam Iraq Somalia Sudan Mexico El Salvador and Haiti these children brought their many languages and cultures to a first grade sheltered English classroom in a large urban school district. Kathleen A. Starks thoughts and conversations with her students and her struggles to address each of the childrens emotional and learning needs while guiding them to recognize and question the assumptions of the world around them provide a muchneeded intimate look into the lives and education of immigrant children. Starks beautifully written reflections about the teachers role and the role of education in general are supremely original honest and thoughtprovoking. This book should be read by any teacher involved in such areas as immigration early childhood theory literacy foreign language education and critical pedagogy. It is also suited to preservice college courses devoted to these topics.