Let's Celebrate: Happy Holi
No. of pages 24
Published: 2018
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Holi - the festival of colour - is celebrated by Hindus worldwide and this book lets children discover how people around the globe celebrate this important festival and what it means to them, with age-appropriate language.
The history, preparation and celebration of the festival are all visualised with beautiful photography, capturing the many ways in which this festival is marked. This approach offers children a visually arresting and diverse introduction to one of the most celebrated religious festivals.
Ideal for leisure reads, use in the classroom and to support cross-curricular studies.
This book is part of a book series called Lets Celebrate .
There are 24 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by Hachette Children's Group .
Joyce Bentley was a publisher of children's non-fiction for more than ten years having also commissioned and edited over 1, 000 books. As a writer she specialises in books for young children on science and religion. Based in Twickenham, she divides her time between writing and commissioning for children's non-fiction - a job she absolutely loves!
This book has the following chapters:
- 1: What is Hinduism?
- 2: Life as a Hindu
- 3: Happy Holi
- 4: The Legend of Holika and Prahlad
- 5: Little Holi/Holika Dahan
- 6: A Festival of Colour
- 7: Holi Mela
- 8: The End of the Day
- 9: Thinking About Holi
- 10: Make a Holi T-shirt
