Holidays not featured in the book are also included I would have been happier if they’d all had at least something written and photographed about them. At the end of the book there’s a celebrations calendar with holidays listed in the month they’re celebrated. The holidays are organized by season: holidays that take place in the spring, summer, fall, then winter. The details about the holidays: religious or other meaning, foods eaten, and other traditions are fun to read and view. I was most interested in the holidays I’d never heard of and there were many of those, but I also enjoyed seeing how they portrayed the holidays familiar to me.
Of course, since common holidays have different traditions depending on the country, I can understand why it was done this way. I’d rather that for each featured holiday, all countries that have some people celebrate it be listed, and then it would be fine that a child from only one of those countries is featured. was mentioned as also doing trick or treat for UNICEF) and that they featured only the United States for Thanksgiving (Canada at least has one too) and Christmas was given to Germany, and there are other examples. It annoyed me that because the authors were trying to get a variety of countries included that they assigned Halloween to Canada only (even though the U.S. However, I’d advise reading Children Just Like Me before or after this book. Celebrating holidays not our own helps us learn (in a fun way) about other cultures. I do enjoy celebrating all holidays with children for me that means doing so with all in a secular fashion. If the reader is particularly interested in world holidays (various religious and secular) then this book is one to read.
I would have appreciated even more holidays described, although I guess I do think it’s good that the holidays featured are those that are considered happy and not somber ones. It seemed to me that fewer children were profiled. This felt slightly less substantial than that book. This book is a good adjunct to the book Children Just Like Me, a book by the same team that created this one.
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