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Holidays Around the World - Celebrate Halloween (Paperback)
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Holidays Around the World - Celebrate Halloween (Paperback)
Series: Holidays Around the World
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Trick or treat? "Celebrate Halloween" is definitely a treat! This
book continues National Geographic's spectacular "Holidays Around
the World" series by looking at Halloween customs and festivities
all over the world. Using fairly brief text and approximately 25
vibrant photographs, the book gives a flavor for the holiday from a
global perspective. A note from an expert consultant aimed at
parents and teachers, helps put Halloween - which goes back
thousands of years - in a greater cultural and historic context.
"Celebrate Halloween" shows a wide range of traditions of this
exciting holiday, including visiting pumpkin patches and carving
jack-o'-lanterns, dressing up in costumes, trick-or-treating from
house to house, telling spooky stories, playing pranks, going to
costume parties, and playing games such as snap apple or bobbing
for apples. Kids will learn that Halloween derives from an ancient
Celtic holiday known as Samhain, which took place around October
31. In the 7th century AD, the Pope named November 1 All Saints, or
All Hallows, Day. The evening before was called 'All Hallows Even',
which was later shortened to 'Halloween'. Although the Pope wanted
Halloween to be a holy night, the old Celtic traditions remained,
such as putting out food and drink for the wandering spirits
believed to be out that night. In time, children and adults started
dressing up like witches and skeletons and other supernatural
creatures and performing tricks so that they could get the food and
drinks - trick or treat! Halloween bonfires in Ireland - believed
to be the birthplace of Halloween - Halloween parades in Japan, a
costume-wearing pooch in the U.S., and a pumpkin patch in the
shadow of the Eiffel Tower in Paris are all rich observances of
this beloved holiday. A special sidebar in the back matter
introduces readers to The Day of the Dead, which is celebrated the
day after Halloween in Mexico.
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