With English and Spanish texts on facing pages, and pertly
illustrated throughout: a cleverly conceived introduction to the
year's holidays, beginning with New Year's Day, as celebrated in
"the English-speaking countries" and the Spanish-speaking countries
of the Americas - and, in the latter case, as part of Indian or
Christian tradition. Some of this - like New Year's customs north
and south - is simply comparative culture of a well-established
sort. But when Peri explains the Latin American Three Kings' Day,
and then notes that some families keep the North American Christmas
too, she's getting at realities that youngsters encounter with
puzzlement. Along the way, explanations are rife: "What is the
reason for all the merrymaking at Carnival time?"; why October 12,
"which English-speaking Americas call Columbus Day, is known as El
Dis de la Raza, the Day of the Race, in many parts of
Spanish-speaking America." Also: festivities are described in
tantalizing detail; much is made, without fanfare, of Puerto Rican
cultural blends; and larger significances are suggested. At the
close of the considerable Halloween/All Souls' Day section, for
instance, Peri writes: "What these customs seem to tell us is that
no matter how much we may learn about the world around us, we will
always be curious about the mystery of death." So the book not only
exposes children, north and south, to common, similar, and
disparate customs, it roughs-in a variety of cultural and social
intersections - without the least didacticism. (Kirkus Reviews)
A bilingual book that describes the holidays children celebrate throughout America as well as those unique to Hispanic Americans.
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