World Holiday, Festival, and Calendar Books: An Annotated Bibliography of More Than 1,000 Books on Contemporary and Historic Religious, Folk, Ethnic, and National Holidays, Festivals, celebration

World Holiday, Festival, and Calendar Books is an annotated bibliography of more than 1,000 books on holidays, festivals, and calendar systems. It describes readily accessible, English-language books devoted to world holidays, religious holidays, regional and national holidays, ethnic holidays, and calendars and time-reckoning systems. Periodicals, associations, and Web sites that cover holidays and festivals are also listed.

The structure, scope, and content of World Holiday, Festival, and Calendar Books enables users to identify interesting and appropriate materials on holidays for many audiences. The book will appeal to a wide range of libraries, religious institutions, and interested individuals. Approximately 175 children's books as well as many more volumes for young readers are identified. In addition, some 100 scholarly books, 50 general reference works, and 40 religious reference works are among the titles described.