![]() 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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