Volumes: 11
Key features include:
- An engaging combination of colourful illustrations and photographs with clear text.
- Recipes for holiday foods and instructions for celebration-based activities.
- A cumulative index and glossary.
Description:
Each of the extensively illustrated books in World Book's Celebrations and Rituals Around the World
introduces readers to customs and traditions that mark special events
in the lives of individuals and groups from around the world.
A
colour-coded geographical arrangement is maintained from book to book,
so the reader can easily study all the celebrations and rituals typical
of a particular region.
The series gives historical background as
well as descriptions of the way the celebrations and rituals are
observed. Each page offers an engaging combination of colourful photos
and clear text that provides historical background and description of
the forms that celebrations and rituals take today.
The 11th
volume offers a compilation of the individual volume indexes and
glossaries plus a resource list of additional print and online sources.
Recipes for special foods and instructions for activities based on selected celebrations are also included.
Set 1 Titles include:
- Birth and Growing Up Celebrations
- Harvest Celebrations
- National Celebrations
- New Year Celebrations
- Spring Celebrations
Set 2 Titles include:
- End-of-life Rituals
- Marriage Celebrations
- Religious Celebrations
- Winter Celebrations
- Everyday Celebrations and Rituals
- Plus separate cumulative index and glossary
Awards & Reviews:
“Valuable for school libraries and public libraries, academic libraries
serving ESL and pre-university students can also benefit from these
works as a way to provide information at a level students can
understand. The organisation by region, rather than by date or holiday
type, makes this easier for the student of culture to find the necessary
information in one place.” American Reference Books Annual 2011
"An
excellent resource for studies of holidays and festivals, these books
might also be used as supplemental materials by teachers and by
students for reports, projects, and discussions on many subjects
including history, geography, art, religions, family living, and
foods." Library Media Connection
"The idea of gathering all the
traditions from different cultures together by topic--birth, death,
marriage, religious celebrations, etc.--rather than having a single
alphabetical arrangement of holidays or the more traditional calendar
arrangement is unique for this age level and makes it easier for
students to compare and contrast rituals from different cultures."
Booklist
Price:
Set 1 - $308.00 (AUD) | Set 2 - $308.00 (AUD)
Set 1 & 2 - $561.00 (AUD)
Set 1 - $395.60 (NZD) | Set 2 - $395.60 (NZD)
Set 1 & 2 - $717.60 (NZD)
ISBN: 978-0-7166-5038-6 (Set 1 & 2)
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