Christmas is right around the corner and while it is one of the biggest celebrations in North America, many cultures celebrate other holidays around this time of year. Check out our list of books on some of the different multicultural celebrations from around the world. As always, to place one of these books on hold, just click on the title and it will take you to the record in our online catalogue. To search our online catalogue, click here. For more help or information, contact your local branch.
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Lunar New Year
Hanukkah
Diwali
Ramadan
Multicultural Celebrations
Festivals and Celebrations
Celebrate different holidays around the world, from Chinese New Year to Diwali, and from the Mexican Day of the Dead to American Thanksgiving.
Christmas: From Solstice to SantaChristmas is a popular holiday celebrated by people all over the world. This informative and engaging exploration of Christmas is aimed at the middle grades but will entertain readers of a much wider age range. Learn about the games played, foods eaten, music played and favorite ways of decorating in different parts of the world. With lots of fun facts (about everything from frumenty to the jolly old man in red himself) and recipes, there's plenty in this beautifully illustrated volume to satisfy anyone with an interest in the festive season.
Christmas Around the World
Christmas customs, festive food, present-giving, songs and traditional stories from around the world with easy-reading text for children who have just started reading alone.
Christmas Around the WorldDescribes Christmas traditions in Mexico, Ethiopia, China, Germany, Lebanon, Sweden, Australia, and Russia.
FestivalsPoems celebrating fourteen festivals observed around the world including Chinese New Year, Kwanzaa, Purim, and Tet-Nguyen-dan.
Hanukkah
Clifford Celebrates HanukkahClifford and Emily Elizabeth are invited to celebrate Hanukkah with their friend Melissa. While at her house, they learn about Hanukkah traditions like lighting the menorah, eating latkes, playing dreidel, and singing songs. After dinner, they all go to see the giant menorah in the town square! But when the lights go out, Clifford just might be the only one big enough to save Hanukkah!
Happy Hanukkah Pout Pout FishIt's the Festival of Lights, and Mr. Fish is celebrating with his friends. Toddlers will love swimming along with the pout-pout fish as he turns little pouts into big smiles.
The Christmas MitzvahAl Rosen, a Jewish man, takes on the jobs of his Christian neighbors on Christmas Eve and day so they can spend the holiday with their families, starting a tradition that lasts for decades.
Short verses describe symbols, foods, and family fun associated with the festival of Hanukkah. Includes facts about the history and traditions.
Happy Llamakkah!Follow along with the Llama family’s Hanukkah traditions as they light their menorah, spin the dreidel, fry latkes, and more. Laura Gehl’s lively rhyming text and Lydia Nichols’s vibrant illustrations make for a festive read. The book also features kid-friendly back matter, with expanded information on the holiday’s history and traditions.
Kwanzaa
Celebrate Kwanzaa
Over the course of seven days, African Americans, families and friends, come together to light the candles that symbolize their past and future—and their unity. They gather as a community to make music and to dance; to feast on harvest foods and the good things of the earth; and to exchange simple, often homemade, gifts.
Li'l Rabbit's Kwanzaa
Li'l Rabbit searches for a gift for his grandmother when she is sick during Kwanzaa, and surprises her with the best gift of all. Includes The Nguzo Saba - The Seven Principles of Kwanzaa. |
Diwali
Diwali, originally a harvest festival, celebrates the triumph of good over evil and of justice over oppression. Tradition, food, ritual, and the annual retelling of the legends of Rama, Krishna, and Lakshmi characterize this holiday, the biggest and brightest of all Indian festivals.
Binny's class is learning about different holiday traditions, and today it is time for Binny to share the story of her favorite holiday, Diwali, the Festival of Lights--and she even has some special treats to give her classmates.
One type-A data analyst discovers her free-spirited side on an impulsive journey from bustling Mumbai to the gorgeous beaches of Goa and finds love waiting for her on Christmas morning. Twenty-eight-year-old Niki Randhawa has always made practical decisions. Despite her love for music and art, she became an analyst for the stability. She's always stuck close to home, in case her family needed her. And she's always dated guys that seem good on paper, rather than the ones who give her butterflies. When she's laid off, Niki realizes that being practical hasn't exactly paid off for her. So, for the first time ever, she throws caution to the wind and books a last-minute flight for her friend Diya's wedding. Niki arrives in India just in time to celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights, where she meets London musician Sameer Mukherji. Maybe it's the splendor of Mumbai or the magic of the holiday season, but Niki is immediately drawn to Sam. At the wedding, the champagne flows and their flirtatious banter makes it clear that the attraction is mutual. When Niki and Sam join Diya, her husband, and their friends on a group honeymoon, their connection grows deeper. Free-spirited Sam helps Niki get in touch with her passionate and creative side, and with her Indian roots. And when she gets a new job offer back home, Niki must decide what she wants out of the next chapter of her life-to cling to the straight and narrow like always, or to take a leap of faith and live the kind of bold life of which the old Niki never would have dreamed.
Archie is worried that her school friends won't like Diwali, her favorite Hindu holiday, and when a storm knocks out the electricity, it looks like the party may be ruined.
Chinese New Year
From its beginnings as a farming celebration marking the end of winter to its current role as a global party featuring good food, lots of gifts and public parades, Chinese New Year is a snapshot of Chinese culture.
Presents various aspects of the Chinese New Year celebration, including red decorations, the exchange of poems, the Festival of Lanterns, the famous Dragon Dance, fireworks, parades, lanterns, feasts, and the remembrance of ancestors. Includes recipe for fortune cookies.
Spending Chinese New Year with her friend Tiger, Maisy learns about traditional symbols, shares a delicious cultural feast and exchanges lucky red hongbao envelopes before listening to a story about the holiday and staying up late to watch a fireworks display.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, a poor man who works for the richest businessman in Beijing sends his son to market to trade their last few eggs for a bag of rice, but instead he brings home an empty--but magic--wok that changes their fortunes forever. Includes information about Chinese New Year and a recipe for fried rice.
Ramadan
Introduces Ramadan, the Islamic month of fasting, and discusses its place in Islam, morning and evening meals before and after fasting, religious activities during the month, and the celebration of Eid al-Fitr that marks the end of the month.
Illustrated with color photographs, this book examines the origins and traditions of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Simple text and illustrations describe how an American Muslim family observes the holy month of Ramadan.
This simple but beautiful book presents children with some of the blessings of the month of Ramadan.
It's Ramadan Curious George
Curious George celebrates Ramadan with his friend Kareem by sampling special treats, making baskets to donate to the needy, and searching for the crescent moon.
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