This book highlights the beliefs, traditions and customs of celebrations of birth, growing up, marriage, anniversaries, memorials, new year and religious festivals. This book allows children to discover similarities and differences between peoples of different cultures, nationalities and religions. The book covers how people celebrate with music and dance, parades, ceremonies, lights and fires, special foods and dressing up in special clothes.

 

This book is part of a book series called How I Celebrate .

There are 64 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Hachette Children's Group .

Gillian Chapman is a designer specializing in children's books. Pam Robson is a writer and primary teacher.