A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals

2021-01-05

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Author: Claire Grace
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN: 0711245428
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Countless different festivals are celebrated all over the world throughout the year. Some are national holidays, celebrated for religious and cultural reasons, or to mark an important date in history, while others are just for fun. Give thanks and tuck into a delicious meal with friends and family at Thanksgiving, get caught up in a messy tomato fight in Spain at La Tomatina, add a splash of color to your day at the Holi festival of colors and celebrate the life and achievements of Martin Luther King Jr. on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. With fact-filled text accompanied by beautifully bright illustrations from the wonderfully talented Chris Corr, prepare yourself for a journey as we travel around the world celebrating and uncovering a visual feast of culture.

What Do You Celebrate?

2023-09-26

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Author: Whitney Stewart
Publisher: Union Square Press
ISBN: 9781454950639
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Fourteen holidays celebrated around the world come alive in this kid-friendly guide of how to celebrate each holiday. The wide-ranging collection of holidays includes Holi, Purim, Halloween, and more!

Festivals and Celebrations

2017-09-05

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Author: Sandra Lawrence
Publisher: 360 Degrees
ISBN: 9781944530105
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Wherever they are in the world, people love to celebrate. This vibrantly illustrated book takes a look through the year at some of the brightest, funniest, and most beautiful festivals on the planet. Explore the ancient and traditional, to the modern and highly unusual!

Let's Celebrate!

2019-11-01

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Author: Kate DePalma
Publisher: Barefoot Books
ISBN: 1782859373
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42

Lyrical, sensory nonfiction text and vibrant illustrations invite readers to experience a child’s-eye view of 13 holidays around the world, such as the Spring Festival in China, Inti Raymi in Peru, Eid al-Fitr in Egypt, Día de Muertos in Mexico and the New Yam Festival in Nigeria. Includes pronunciation guides, a global festival calendar and educational notes about why we celebrate.

All Year Round

1993

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Author: Sue Fitzjohn
Publisher: Festivals and the Seasons
ISBN: 9781869890476
Category : Church year
Languages : en
Pages : 0

All Year Round is brimming with things to make, activities, stories, poems and songs to share with your family. It is full of well-illustrated ideas for fun and celebration: from Candlemas to Christmas and Midsummer's day to the Winter solstice.Observing the round of festivals is an enjoyable way to bring rhythm into children's lives and provide a series of meaningful landmarks to look forward to. Each festival has a special character of its own: participation can deepen our understanding and love of nature and bring a gift to the whole family. All Year Round invites you to start celebrating now!

Feasts and Festivals Around the World: From Lunar New Year to Christmas

2022-06-28

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Author: Alice B. McGinty
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1499814119
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 39

Explore the celebrations and feasts of twelve countries and cultures from around the world! From South Korea to Nigeria to the USA, come celebrate festivals throughout the year! People around the world are celebrating. In Australia, it's Christmas in summer with barbecues on the beach. In Thailand, they're celebrating Songkran, the famous Buddhist water festival. Rhyming text and graphic illustrations pair perfectly and invite young readers to explore the world through mesmerizing festivals. A stunning companion to Pancakes to Parathas: Breakfast Around the World!

All Around the Year

1995

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Author: Jack Santino
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252065163
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Whether they're decorating Easter trees or celebrating Wagner's birthday by playing recordings of his Ring cycle operas and incinerating a model of Valhalla on an outdoor barbecue to the closing strains of "Gotterdämerung," Americans know both how to create and how to celebrate holidays. Jack Santino's guide to such frivolity is a wonderfully readable exploration of holidays, periods of festivity, and life-cycle rituals and celebrations. Santino draws on history, anthropology, popular culture, and folklore to show the intricate relationships between holidays and the roles that celebrations and rituals play in people's lives.

Around the World in 500 Festivals

2013

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Author: Steve Davey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781857336856
Category : TRAVEL
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Around the World in 500 Festivals is a rare book that will fascinate and inspire. A large-format, beautifully illustrated coffee-table volume, it is a photographic exploration of the richness and variety of the world's most colourful, moving, joyful, and spectacular celebrations. Thousands of festivals, great and small, take place around the world every year. The book contains: - A unique selection of 500 unmissable festivals around the world - More than 200 full-colour photographs that capture the spirit and immediacy of the events - Special features in the form of extended photographic essays - Original research and stunning photography by an internationally recognized writer-photographer Around the World in 500 Festivals takes this approach to a different level. It will help people who want to plan their trip to coincide with a festival. It will also enthrall and inform armchair travelers everywhere. Elegantly designed and lavishly produced, it is exceptional value for money and makes a perfect gift for travellers and readers of all ages, backgrounds, and cultures.

Festivals, Family and Food

1982

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Author: Diana Carey
Publisher: Festivals and the Seasons
ISBN: 9780950706238
Category : Family festivals
Languages : en
Pages : 0

A unique, well loved source of stories, recipes, things to make, activities, poems, songs and festivals.

Celebrations Around the World

2019-08-27

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Author: Katy Halford
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 146548390X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

It's time to celebrate! From Christmas and Thanksgiving, to Diwali and Halloween, kids won't want to miss out on all the festivities. Embark on an exciting journey through the most interesting and important festivals, celebrations, and holidays enjoyed by people around the world. Stunning original illustrations and fascinating facts will inspire and inform children about cultures and religions from the countries of the world. Witness a camel marathon in a celebration of the Sahara Desert, and devour some delicious dumplings to celebrate Chinese New Year. Discover why skeletons dance at the Day of the Dead in Mexico, and get messy at Holi, the Hindu Festival of Colors. Children will love poring over artist Katy Halford's beautiful illustrations, which showcase every celebration in absorbing detail. Engaging factual writing introduce young readers to the most interesting aspects of each celebration, from the costumes worn to the food eaten, and encourage an understanding of other cultures and religions.