Celebrating Birth Around the World
Chicago, Illinois : Heinemann Raintree, [2016]
Format: Book
Description: 32 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Discover a wonderful world of celebrations from around the world. Featuring the world's main religions as well as some little-known ceremonies and festivals, this book takes an intriguing and colorful look at how birth is celebrated in many different places.
Series: Ganeri, Anita, 1961- Cultures and customs.
Contents:
Celebrating birth -- Honey and horoscopes -- Sacred names -- Red eggs and ginger -- Special food around the world -- Call to prayer -- Sitting in a cradle -- Being baptized -- Inuit names -- Seeing the sun -- Happy birthday, everyone! -- Birthday Fun around the world -- Make a Hopi cradel doll.
Subjects:
Childbirth -- Cross-cultural studies -- Juvenile literature.
Birth customs -- Cross-cultural studies -- Juvenile literature.
Childbirth -- Cross-cultural studies -- Juvenile literature.
Birth customs -- Cross-cultural studies -- Juvenile literature.
Target Audience: 890L
ISBN:
9781410980151
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C SOCIAL SCI Family Gan | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's NonFiction | In |
C SOCIAL SCI Family Gan | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's NonFiction | In |
C SOCIAL SCI Family Gan | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Children's NonFiction | In |
C SOCIAL SCI Family Gan | Sandhills Indoors | Children's NonFiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (page 31) and index.