Christmas In Many Cultures

by Martha E.H. Rustad

From homes and clothes to school and family, life is different all around the world. Culture makes us who we are. Grass-roofed huts, blue jeans, and ceremonial clothing are all a part of culture. Each striking photograph is accompanied by a world map that shows where it was taken.

Genres: Christmas

24 pages, Library Binding

First published September 1, 2008

About the author

Martha E. H. Rustad is the author of more than one hundred nonfiction children's books, on topics ranging from snowflakes to termites to Ancient Babylon. She lives with her family in Brainerd, Minnesota.

Reviews

[Nicole · Rating 3 out of 5]

Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday dear friend! Happy birthday to you! A birthday is a celebration celebrated worldwide! People eat special food; Americans eat lots of birthday cake or cupcakes while the people in the Netherlands each pancakes with fruit. Mei, a girl from China, eats noodles. Papan, a young boy from Mexico, eats candy that has fallen from a piñata. Vera, a six year old from Brazil, has her earlobes pulled six times. Sam receives a butter nose for good luck, and this is a tradition among most Canadians. Sarah L. Schuette and Gail Saunders-Smith do a wonderful job with writing and illustrating- the two match and go hand-in-hand. Both women do many of the same things to celebrate their birthdays as the others from various countries. This would be a good book to read to children, because it informs them of how other cultures, besides their own, celebrate birthdays but do it differently. This is an interesting text because you can incorporate some of these celebrations in the classroom. For example if there is a student in the class who is Chinese, on his/her birthday you can eat noodles instead of cake and ice-cream.

[Karina Espinales · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great book to show the students that everyone celebrates Christmas differently. It is a non-fiction book and it shows the names of the places around the world.