Books in Let's Celebrate series

Eid al-Fitr is celebrated by Muslims worldwide to mark the end of Ramadan fasting and this book let's children discover how people around the globe celebrate this important festival and what it means to them, with age-appropriate language. This history, preparation and celebration of the festival are all visualised with beautiful photography, capturing the many ways in which this festival is marked. This approach offers children a visually arresting and diverse introduction to one of the most celerated religious festivals.Ideal for leisure reads, use in the classroom and to support cross-curricular studies.

Here is a wonderful, beautifully illustrated book to help inspire Jewish children in celebration of Hanukkah, the festival of lights, while also telling boys and girls of all faiths the fascinating story and traditions connected with this festive holiday. The book’s first part tells the story, taken from The Book of Maccabees and other historical sources, of how Antiochus of Syria invaded the land of Judea and forbade the Jews to perform their religious rites, which included lighting the menorah. The story goes on to tell how the Syrians were ultimately defeated and driven away by the Maccabees, and how the Temple of Jerusalem was restored and its menorah lighted and miraculously kept burning. This book’s remaining pages describe the joyful Hanukkah rituals meant to commemorate the miracle of the menorah. Children read about the special foods for Hanukkah, learn to light Hanukkah candles, make lots of fun, innovative crafts, play dreidel with chocolate Gelt, and generally celebrate this joyous holiday. Includes sidebars with cool facts! (Ages 6–9)

Holi - the festival of colour - is celebrated by Hindus worldwide and this book lets children discover how people around the globe celebrate this important festival and what it means to them, with age-appropriate language. The history, preparation and celebration of the festival are all visualised with beautiful photography, capturing the many ways in which this festival is marked. This approach offers children a visually arresting and diverse introduction to one of the most celebrated religious festivals.Ideal for leisure reads, use in the classroom and to support cross-curricular studies.

Let's Celebrate the Saints! Prayers, Pointers and Posters Activity Companion is invaluable for expanding lessons learned in the Let's Celebrate the Saints! God's Priests, Prophets and Kings book. Readers learn about more saints, are given practical ways they can deepen their faith on a daily basis and are challenged to think critically about choosing activities and relationships that help them grow in holiness. A great way to more deeply engage visual, tactile and creative learning, teens and pre-teens can create a poster, do advanced coloring, learn about additional saints and are given easy instructions on how to pray popular devotions to deepen their prayer and relationship with Christ. Let's Celebrate the Saints! Prayers, Pointers and Posters Activity Companion is filled with highly detailed sketches teens and pre-teens can color in inspiring detail and really make their own. An excellent companion to Let's Celebrate the Saints! this book is a great tool to engage teens and pre-teens in the saints, in striving to become holy, in learning ways to grow in the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit and in confirmation preparation. Let's Celebrate the Saints! Prayers, Pointers and Posters Activity Companion also makes a wonderful gift for people who have been confirmed, as well as a vital part of any teen's, adult's or family's inspiring faith book collection!

Eid al-Fitr is celebrated by Muslims worldwide to mark the end of Ramadan fasting and this book lets children discover how people around the globe celebrate this important festival and what it means to them, with age-appropriate language. The history, preparation and celebration of the festival are all visualised with beautiful photography, capturing the many ways in which this festival is marked. This approach offers children a visually arresting and diverse introduction to one of the most celebrated religious festivals.Ideal for leisure reads, use in the classroom and to support cross-curricular studies.

Let's Celebrate the Saints! God's Priests, Prophets and Kings explores each of the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit and illustrates how priests,prophets and kings have lived them out. Pre-teens and teens explore the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit received in Baptism and strengthened in Confirmation, and confront what each gift might mean for their daily lives. Readers are instructed on popular approved Catholic devotions, including the Holy Rosary, Divine Mercy Prayers, the Miraculous Medal and Carmelite Scapular, to cultivate these gifts and answer God's call to sainthood. This easy-to-access book explains each gift in a way that pre-teens and teens can understand and explains how kids can become more like Christ by imitating the saints. Let's Celebrate the Saints! God's Priests, Prophets and Kings is written and illustrated to engage and inform pre-teens and teens. The concepts are reinforced by dramatic and engaging pictures modeled after the works of the masters, but with a graphic novel feel. A go-to resource for articulating the great mysteries of our faith in a way teens and pre-teens can appreciate, Let's Celebrate the Saints is a valuable gift for anyone who received Confirmation, an invaluable addition to a confirmation preparation, catechetical curriculum or any family's book collection!