![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The text moves from culture to culture with ease and each celebration has just enough factual material to make the reader want to learn more. This book is very well written and researched and the lively art work, like the springtime equinox, makes it come alive. ![]() Does your family have something special they do upon its arrival? It talks about the Chinese New Year, the Persian No Ruz (New Year), the Indian celebration of Holi, the Mayan El Castillo pyramid, Maslenitsa (Pancake Week) in Russia, how the Cree Native American's honor the Great Spirit, Jewish Passover, the German festival Eostre (later changed to Easter) and the many ways ordinary families celebrate spring. In particular, it celebrates the spring equinox, a time of new beginnings, with the reader and talks about celebrations around the world to usher in this season. This book describes what the spring (vernal) equinox, the summer solstice, the fall(autumnal equinox) and the winter solstice are. It is a time when many different cultures celebrate the new beginning of the year. The leaves have begun to bud, the flowers are sprouting, "woodchucks whistle, chickadees chirp and dragonflies emerge from rivers and ponds." Robins come back to start new families, new animals are being born and people start planting their gardens. Spring has arrived and the countryside is coming to life again. A New Beginning: Celebrating the Spring Equinox ![]()
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