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[2022]
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English
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Explore harvest festivals from around the globe! Lyrical, rhyming text and lush, detailed artwork from Italian artist Martina Peluso immerse young readers in some of the most ancient traditions in the world. Nine pages of rich, educational endnotes dive deep with more information about the 12 cultures explored in the book and invite young readers to ask questions about food and the labor that produces it.
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[2012], c2006
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English
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When you're travelling, there's nothing like coming across a lively, local festival. This video installment of Globe Trekker's Great Festivals series looks back at some of the best ones the Globe Trekker explorers have stumbled upon. Many of the world's great festivals coincide with the changing of the seasons since ancient cultures set their clocks to the calendar's quarters. Justine Shapiro visits Taiwan to catch the 15-day celebration for Chinese...
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1997.
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English
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A calendar of celebrations which describes holidays and festivals of all major religions and cultures from around the world. Includes original photography. Using double-page spreads, a number of holidays from around the world are featured, such as Christmas in Germany and Diwali in India. Bowker Authored Title code. Using double-page spreads, a number of holidays from around the world are featured, such as Christmas in Germany & Diwali in India. Everyone...
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[2021]
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English
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"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 ... With fact-filled text accompanied by beautifully bright illustrations from ... Chris Corr, prepare yourself for a journey as we travel around the world celebrating and uncovering a visual feast of culture"--
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"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"--
10) The winter witch
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[2005]
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English
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Now that his parents are divorced, Stephen is not looking forward to Christmas in a new home with his new Jewish stepmother; but an old neighbor gives him perspective on the common meaning of several winter festivals.
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[2018]
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English
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The town of Moonlight Harbor needs to convince tourists that the beach is still the place to be, even when the sunshine goes south for the winter. Jenna Jones, new proprietor of The Driftwood Inn, has the perfect idea: a holiday festival called Seaside with Santa. Jenna is happy to throw herself into planning the event. With all the decorating, preparation and extra reservations at the inn because of the festival, Jenna is busy. Busy, but happy. ...
14) Natsumi!
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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The festival of traditional Japanese arts is coming up, and little Natsumi's big personality is too much for her family's quieter traditions, until her grandfather introduces her to taiko drumming.
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[2016]
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English
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"Italy has been the center of the Roman Catholic Church for hundreds of years. Many of the country's traditions and holidays today are based on religious holy days. This interesting book describes national holidays in Italy that mark such events as religious festivals, as well as important historic events such as the country's independence. Other traditional celebrations featured include food festivals and family occasions"--
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Detective Elise King investigates a man's disappearance in a seaside town where the locals and weekenders are at odds with each other in this rich and captivating new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow. Elise King is a successful and ambitious detective-or she was before a medical leave left her unsure if she'd ever return to work. She now spends most days watching the growing tensions in her small seaside town of Ebbing-the...
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2019.
Language
English
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All around the world there are festivals that reach back through the sands of time to medieval carnival traditions, and beyond. The festivals in this book are often little known outside their locale and they are all characterised by spectacular costumes and compellingly bizarre rituals. The Jarramplas of Piornal, Spain is a spooky devil character dressed in rags, who is pelted by two tons of turnips every year. In Japan, the Kasedori wear a suit of...
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