Traditions and technologies
What if your home did not stay in one place?
For many children, home means a familiar building, a bedroom, and an address. They go out into the world, then come back to the same place.
Some families live differently. They pack up their homes and follow their herds. They sleep aboard boats or carry everything they need in a camper van. Others move between countries, working and learning wherever they settle next.
Nomads introduces children to these ways of living through a question they can immediately understand: how do you make a home when you keep moving?
Inside the book
Where do you sleep? How do you cook dinner? Where do you keep your belongings? And what do you take when it’s time to leave?
Through illustrated encounters with families and communities, Nomads explores the practical details that make an unfamiliar way of life feel real. Readers step inside Mongolian gers, visit Arctic reindeer herders, explore Bajau houseboats and see how families organise everyday life in camper vans.
Food, clothes, games, and celebrations bring each encounter closer to the reader’s own experience. The differences spark curiosity; the familiar details hold the connection.
For publishers
Every child has an idea of home. This book gives them a chance to look at someone else’s.
It asks nothing of the reader in the way of prior knowledge, so the cultural discovery stays accessible even without a background in anthropology or history. For parents, that’s a clear reason to buy: a book that helps children understand lives very different from their own.
How do you take a house apart and put it back together? How do you fit a kitchen, beds, and belongings into a vehicle? What keeps a family warm in the Arctic?
Homes on the move give children a way into design, materials, and everyday problem-solving. Illustrated scenes and short text sections leave room to look closely, ask questions and come back for another read.
The book puts traditional nomadic cultures side by side with van life and digital nomadism, showing that people move for different reasons and build their lives around it in different ways.
For publishers, that gives the subject reach: world cultures, geography, and practical design sit alongside ordinary questions about family, possessions and what “home” means. It works for family reading, classroom discussion, and library shelves.
A portable home still needs somewhere to cook. A family living on water still needs somewhere to sleep. Children growing up on the move still find ways to play.
Across 96 illustrated pages, Aigul Nigmetova shows how people meet these same needs in very different circumstances, in deserts, grasslands, Arctic landscapes and at sea.
Readers may finish the book seeing their own home a little differently, too.
Steppe nomads
Desert nomads
Northern nomads
Digital nomads
Sample pages
Three spreads from the English edition. Each one is a single home, opened up: the people who live there speak for themselves, and short labelled sections answer the questions children actually ask.
Created with specialist input
Written and illustrated by Aigul Nigmetova, with scientific editing by anthropologist Dmitry Kanunnikov of the Museum of Nomadic Culture.
96 illustrated pages · Children’s non-fiction · World cultures · Geography · Age 6+
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