Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download The Big Book of Festivals PDF full book. Access full book title The Big Book of Festivals by Joan-Maree Hargreaves. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Joan-Maree Hargreaves Publisher: ISBN: 9780571370221 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Explore some of the most thrilling cultural and religious festivals from around the world! From Diwali, the Indian festival of light, to the Spanish tomato-throwing festival La Tomatina, to the Belgian Festival of Giants, this book is the perfect introduction to some of the world's most incredible cultural and religious celebrations. Exquisitely illustrated by Liz Rowland, every page is packed with fascinating fun filled facts! Some festivals are outrageously joyful, others are more serious. All of them bring people together to mark the big events in life. So dive into this riotous explosion of colour as we feast, sing, cry and celebrate the diversity of festivals and traditions this wonderful world of ours has to offer. 'Gorgeous.' Reading Time 'Perfect for young children . . . to introduce them to diverse celebrations and cultures.' Read Me Another Story 'Incredibly immersive.' Indian Link
Author: Joan-Maree Hargreaves Publisher: ISBN: 9780571370221 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Explore some of the most thrilling cultural and religious festivals from around the world! From Diwali, the Indian festival of light, to the Spanish tomato-throwing festival La Tomatina, to the Belgian Festival of Giants, this book is the perfect introduction to some of the world's most incredible cultural and religious celebrations. Exquisitely illustrated by Liz Rowland, every page is packed with fascinating fun filled facts! Some festivals are outrageously joyful, others are more serious. All of them bring people together to mark the big events in life. So dive into this riotous explosion of colour as we feast, sing, cry and celebrate the diversity of festivals and traditions this wonderful world of ours has to offer. 'Gorgeous.' Reading Time 'Perfect for young children . . . to introduce them to diverse celebrations and cultures.' Read Me Another Story 'Incredibly immersive.' Indian Link
Author: Joan-Maree Hargreaves Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571370241 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 80
Book Description
Explore some of the most thrilling cultural and religious festivals from around the world!From Diwali, the Indian festival of light, to the Spanish tomato-throwing festival La Tomatina, to the Belgian Festival of Giants, this book is the perfect introduction to some of the world's most incredible cultural and religious celebrations.Exquisitely illustrated by Liz Rowland, every page is packed with fascinating fun filled facts!Some festivals are outrageously joyful, others are more serious. All of them bring people together to mark the big events in life. So dive into this riotous explosion of colour as we feast, sing, cry and celebrate the diversity of festivals and traditions this wonderful world of ours has to offer.'Gorgeous.' Reading Time'Perfect for young children . . . to introduce them to diverse celebrations and cultures.' Read Me Another Story'Incredibly immersive.' Indian Link
Author: Claire Grace Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books ISBN: 0711245428 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 130
Book Description
Countless different festivals are celebrated all over the world throughout the year. Some are national holidays, celebrated for religious and cultural reasons, or to mark an important date in history, while others are just for fun. Give thanks and tuck into a delicious meal with friends and family at Thanksgiving, get caught up in a messy tomato fight in Spain at La Tomatina, add a splash of color to your day at the Holi festival of colors and celebrate the life and achievements of Martin Luther King Jr. on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. With fact-filled text accompanied by beautifully bright illustrations from the wonderfully talented Chris Corr, prepare yourself for a journey as we travel around the world celebrating and uncovering a visual feast of culture.
Author: Surishtha Sehgal Publisher: Little Simon ISBN: 1534478175 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 17
Book Description
Holi, Hai! Holi, Hai! It’s time to prepare for the Indian springtime Festival of Colors in this delightful Classic Board Book! It’s time for the Indian festival of Holi, a celebration of the start of spring, of new beginnings, and of good over evil. Friends, families, and neighbors wear white clothing and toss handfuls of brightly colored powders at one another until they’re all completely covered from head to toe! Young readers will love following the young siblings gathering flowers to make the colorful powders for the big day until—poof!—it’s time for the fun to begin.
Author: Robert Webb Publisher: Little, Brown ISBN: 0316500267 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 304
Book Description
Can you fall in love for the first time twice? A recently widowed women is about to find out when she wakes up and finds herself eighteen again in this "highly entertaining" story of second chances (Guardian) by the star of Peep Show Kate's husband Luke -- the man she loved from the moment she met him twenty-eight years ago -- died suddenly. Since then she has pushed away her friend and lost her job, and everything is starting to fall apart. One day, she wakes up in the wrong room and in the wrong body. She is eighteen again but remembers everything. This is her college room in 1992 on the first day of orientation. And this is the day she meets Luke. Kate knows how he died, and that he's already ill. But Luke is not the man that she lost: he's still a boy -- the annoying nineteen-year-old English student she first met. If they can fall in love again despite everything, she might just be able to save him. She's going to try to do everything exactly the same . . .
Author: Kate DePalma Publisher: Barefoot Books ISBN: 1782859373 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 42
Book Description
Lyrical, sensory nonfiction text and vibrant illustrations invite readers to experience a child’s-eye view of 13 holidays around the world, such as the Spring Festival in China, Inti Raymi in Peru, Eid al-Fitr in Egypt, Día de Muertos in Mexico and the New Yam Festival in Nigeria. Includes pronunciation guides, a global festival calendar and educational notes about why we celebrate.
Author: The Iona Community Publisher: Wild Goose Publications ISBN: 1849525544 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 272
Book Description
Liturgies for Advent and Christmas, Lent and Easter, Transfiguration, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, All Saints', St Columba's Day, Father's Day; on hunger, economic witness, peacemaking, the environment, pilgrimage, welcome, hospitality and friendship. Includes a blessing liturgy for a marriage or partnership, a wedding/partnership ceremony and resources for a memorial event.Full communion services and shorts acts of worship; liturgies for small groups and all-age gatherings; worship rooted in church life and the Iona Community's resident group on Iona, in social justice and pastoral work. So - as always with the Iona Community - worship which is contextual, with a strong justice and peace edge.Originally published as single digital downloads by Wild Goose, these are now all brought together for the first time in the second of at least two Big Books of resources and liturgies.Contributors include John Harvey, Nancy Cocks, Tom Gordon, Jan Sutch Pickard, Joy Mead, Chris Polhill, Ian M Fraser, Thom M Shuman, Alison Swinfen, Annie Heppenstall, Norman Shanks and others.God of the rhinoceros and the midge,God of the Large Hadron Collider and the iPhone,help us to sense your presence in and through all things. God whose grace is sufficient for all our needs,help us to be people of compassion, justice and peace.(Norman Shanks, from 'A liturgy for the Feast of the Transfiguration')
Author: Sandra Lawrence Publisher: 360 Degrees ISBN: 9781848575950 Category : Festivals Languages : en Pages : 64
Book Description
Describes how people around the world celebrate throughout the year, including festivals based on the time of year, historical events, special foods, and religious traditions.
Author: Joan-Maree Hargreaves
Author: Joan-Maree Hargreaves
Author: Joan-Maree Hargreaves
Author: Claire Grace
Author: Surishtha Sehgal
Author: Nancy Pennick
Author: Robert Webb
Author: Rose Davidson
Author: Kate DePalma
Author: The Iona Community
Author: Sandra Lawrence