Description Children look forward eagerly to celebrating festivals. This timeless sourcebook helps families explore the festivals—those feast days scattered around the year that children love. The underlying theme is a simple yet bold suggestion—if celebrating festivals was formerly the focus of community life then, recreated today, those celebrations will enrich the whole family as well as school life. Included in this book are festive stories, songs, things to make, treats, simple recipes, fun games, activities, traditions, a birthday calendar, and poems to mark the seasons. Each season has its own festival. Each of the eighteen celebrations—Martinmas, Candlemas, Whitsun (Pentecost), for example—has its own chapter, with sections on birthdays, teatimes, rainy days, convalescence, and more. This bestselling festival guide is illustrated by Cornelie Morris and Sylvia Mehta and features music by Rob Mehta. C O N T E N T S: Introduction: The Four Seasons I. SPRING DAYS 1. Candlemas 2. St. Valentine’s Day 3. Shrove Tuesday and Shrovetide 4. Mothering Sunday 5. Good Friday 6. Eastertide 7. May Day II. HERBS III. SUMMER DAYS 1. Whitsun 2. Midsummer 3. Picnics 4. Other Summer Food and Drink 5. Harvest 6. The Preserving Year IV. AUTUMN DAYS 1. Michaelmas 2. Hallowe’en 3. All Souls Day 4. Guy Fawkes Night 5. Bonfire Songs 6. Martinmas 7. What to Do with All the Apples! 8. Things to Make with Autumn Nuts, Berries, Grasses and Leaves V. WINTER DAYS 1. Advent 2. St. Nicholas 3. Christmastide Decorations 4. Christmas Eve 5. Christmas Day 6. New Year 7. Twelfth Night—Epiphany VI. BIRTHDAYS VII. SWEETMAKING VIII. HUNGRY TEATIMES IX. RAINY DAYS & CONVALESCENCE X. EXTRA TOUCHES XI. BIRTHDAY CALENDAR XII. YOUR OWN IDEAS XIII. INDEX XIV. REFERENCES & ACKNOWLEGMENTS Author Bio
