Erina, Cairan and Cait are helping their mother bake bread in the family’s kitchen in Dubai. The children have ground the wheat and measured the ingredients, and are now kneading dough while singing a nursery rhyme in unison.

When the task is done, four-year-old Cait goes to her play kitchen to make bread for her dolls. Cairan, seven, walks to the living room and listens to her mother recite another chapter from Little House in the Big Woods, a book by the famous children’s author Laura Ingalls Wilder. Read more…