Holidays Around the World: Celebrate Kwanzaa

Celebrate Kwanzaa continues the spectacular Holidays Around the World series by focusing on this African-American holiday, which falls during the festive, gift-giving season and is celebrated by families, communities, and schools throughout America. With succinct, lively text and beautiful photographs, the book celebrates African-American culture and helps us to understand and appreciate this special holiday.

Over the course of seven days, African Americans, families and friends, come together to light the candles that symbolize their past and future—and their unity. They gather as a community to make music and to dance; to feast on harvest foods and the good things of the earth; and to exchange simple, often homemade, gifts. Readers are introduced to the symbols of the holiday, such as the mkeka (a special placemat), kinara (candleholder), and kikombe cha umoja (unity cup). Important concepts, like the seven principles, are explained. In addition, a note from the book's consultant, aimed at parents and teachers, puts the holiday in its full cultural and historical perspective.

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• Holidays Around the World: Celebrate Hanukkah: With Light, Latkes, and Dreidels
• Holidays Around the World: Celebrate Christmas: With Carols, Presents, and Peace
• Holidays Around the World: Celebrate Chinese New Year: With Fireworks, Dragons, and Lanterns
• Together for Kwanzaa (Random House Pictureback)
• My First Kwanzaa (My First Holiday)
• Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story (Albert Whitman Prairie Paperback)
• The Story of Hanukkah
• Diwali (Rookie Read-About Holidays: Previous Editions)
• The Night of Las Posadas (Picture Puffin Books)
• Kwanzaa (Rookie Read-About Holidays)