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Let's Celebrate!: Canada’s Special Days
A non-fiction book for children
256 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1987
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May 16, 2023
I have truly and indeed very much enjoyed reading about the many different types of Canadian celebrations (as well as their diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds), and the many included suggestions for activities, crafts and the like are both ingenious and promise much potential fun for the entire family.
Now Caroline Parry's Let's Celebrate is most definitely a book for older children, or for parents to share with their children, and also generally more of a reference or information manual than a book to be read straight through (but that is in no way to be regarded as a lack, or a criticism, it is simply a stated academic fact). However and unfortunately, because Let's Celebrate was published in 1987 (and has as far as I can tell never been reissued or updated), many if not actually most of the addresses and contact numbers listed and perhaps even some of the celebrations themselves might well be woefully out-of-date (perhaps the nature of the proverbial beast with these types of tomes, but a bit frustrating nevertheless, as in my opinion books like Let's Celebrate are an important cultural trove and archive of knowledge, and one that should really be kept up-to-date and periodically reissued, as the ethnic and cultural traditions and make-up of a country, and especially of an immigration-dependent country like Canada, should remain prominently featured and feted).
Now Caroline Parry's Let's Celebrate is most definitely a book for older children, or for parents to share with their children, and also generally more of a reference or information manual than a book to be read straight through (but that is in no way to be regarded as a lack, or a criticism, it is simply a stated academic fact). However and unfortunately, because Let's Celebrate was published in 1987 (and has as far as I can tell never been reissued or updated), many if not actually most of the addresses and contact numbers listed and perhaps even some of the celebrations themselves might well be woefully out-of-date (perhaps the nature of the proverbial beast with these types of tomes, but a bit frustrating nevertheless, as in my opinion books like Let's Celebrate are an important cultural trove and archive of knowledge, and one that should really be kept up-to-date and periodically reissued, as the ethnic and cultural traditions and make-up of a country, and especially of an immigration-dependent country like Canada, should remain prominently featured and feted).
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