harvest festivals

Describes how the harvest festival is celebrated in different countries, by different cultures, and with different foods around the world when crops are gathered to feed a community. Includes recipes and activities.

Provides information about the Thanksgiving holiday, and how it is celebrated with food, parades, and family gatherings. Includes a related craft project.

Tells the story of what Thanksgiving was like for the Robertsons, a pioneer family living on a backwoods farm in 1841.

Learn about the candles representing Kwanzaa, the seven days beginning December 26, when African Americans celebrate their heritage. Includes recipes for such dishes as Ashanti peanut soup and Sengalese cookies,as well as instructions for making masks and African toe puppets and other Zawadi gifts.

Provides an introduction to Kwanzaa, describing the meaning of the African-American celebration, and includes two interdisciplinary theme units, one for children under age thirteen and one for older youths, both of which stress the seven principles undergirding the holiday.

Describes the origins and tradtions of harvest festivals and Thanksgiving celebrations around the world.

A poem about the Tohono O'Odham Saguaro Wine Ceremony, their most important harvest celebration.

Discusses the historical and contemporary celebrations of the harvest season around the world. Similarities and differences in the many different festivals are highlighted.

Showing readers how to put math to work in their day-to-day activities, this book describes how grandchildren use subtraction to plan a large harvest lunch at their grandparents' apple orchard.