Books with title The Winter Cherries: Holiday Tales from Around the World

With this workbook, your student will explore how Christmas is celebrated in Australia, Germany, Mexico, Italy, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and France. You’ll also learn more about St. Lucia Day in Sweden, Diwali in India, Hanukkah in Israel, Solstice in the U.K., Kwanzaa in the United States, and Chinese New Year in China. This workbook is packed with activities and challenges, with map work, atlas work, reading and response passages, exploring cultures and languages, crafts, coloring, recipes, and more. Each country includes 6 pages of content, with coloring book style illustrations for extra fun. This unit study is designed for children in grades 2-5.

A collection of stories full of imagination, color, and wonderful detail taken from all over the globe Including enchanting tales taken from the storytelling heritage of many different countries and cultures, these stories are simply retold to be especially accessible to children and accompanied by lively color illustrations throughout. Magical characters from every continent abound in the multicultural tales, including a kettle that transforms into a dancing badger from Japan, an Aboriginal tale of friendship between an owl and a hurricane, and a charming tale of witches and butterflies from Persia.