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Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
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Description
Describes how and why daylight grows shorter as winter approaches, the effect of shorter days on animals and people, and how the winter solstice has been celebrated throughout history. Includes activities.
3) Ice palace
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
A girl and her father help plan the annual winter carnival in Saranac Lake Village, New York, as the girl's uncle and other prisoners work together to build its centerpiece, the ice palace.
7) Da Feast!
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Each summer for the past one hundred years, local residents on an otherwise tranquil block in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn turn their lives upside down for two weeks in order to host the reenactment of a centuries-old religious pageant. The annual feast of San Paulino di Nola has its roots in an archaic fertility rite with exotic pagan undertones. Italians from the Campanese village of Nola, who emigrated to Williamsburg in the 1880's, brought...
Author
Publisher
Running Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Quality family togetherness—everyone wants it, but it seems increasingly harder to achieve. In a world run by cell phones, computers, and virtual networking, the comfort of human connection grows more important— and rarer— all the time. In a guide newly updated for the next generation, family expert Meg Cox offers a solution. Family rituals provide a sense of home and identity that kids and parents both need. From holidays and birthdays...
9) Fiber gathering: knit, crochet, spin and dye more than 25 projects inspired by America's festivals
Author
Publisher
Wiley Pub
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
13) Food truck fest
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A family prepares for a day at the food truck festival, while at the same time, the food truck crews get ready for the same event, checking recipes, starting to cook, and driving to the festival site.
Author
Publisher
DK, Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Celebrate different holidays around the world, from Chinese New Year to Diwali, and from the Mexican Day of the Dead to American Thanksgiving. Beginning with New Year's Day, Festivals and Celebrations lets young children join in celebrations around the world throughout the year. Each chapter is divided by season and covers everything from Passover and Easter, to Japanese Cherry Blossom Festivals and International Children's Day, to Holi and Hanukkah....
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 7
Language
English
Description
Domestic bliss seems in short supply at 44 Scotland Street. Over at the Pollocks, dad, Stuart, is harbouring a secret about a secret society and Bertie is feeling kind of blue. Having had enough of his neurotic hot-housing mother, he puts himself up for adoption on eBay. Will he go to the highest bidder or will he have to take matters into his own hands? Will the lovelorn Big Lou find true love on the internet? And will Angus Lordie and Domenica make...
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A collection of original poems about New Year celebrations throughout the year and around the world. Includes an introduction about worldwide New Year celebrations plus a map, information about calendars, New Year greetings in many languages, additional factual information about the celebrations, and author's sources"--
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun, Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
It is the first year that Toby is old enough to attend the Ring Shout, a celebration when the hard work of harvest is done, but he cannot find an object that makes a noise which will speak from his heart to God's ears.
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