Meet twenty children from around the world as they tell us about the feasts and festivals they enjoy and the religions and customs they follow.
This Is Our World – Celebrate With Us!, written by Valerie Wilding and illustrated by Åsa Gilland, is the follow-up to the critically acclaimed This Is Our World. It’s a vibrant and colourful celebration of our planet’s cultural diversity – an unforgettable journey that brings the people, customs and religions of twenty places to life for young readers.
The tour is truly global, as we journey from Eid al-Fitr in the UK to the Hanami cherry blossom festival in Japan, from Christmas Eve in Poland to the Festival of the Sahara in Tunisia, via Diwali in India, Australia’s indigenous Barunga festival, Rosh Hashanah in New York, the Day of the Dead in Mexico, and much more.
This is both a beautiful gift book and a highly-accessible home reference, sure to foster an interest in the wider world, in travel, in diversity, and in cultures and religions.
This is Book 1 in the This Is Our World Series. See all This Is Our World books here.
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Valerie Wilding is an established writer of historical fiction and non fiction. She is a regular contributor to Scholastic's My Story series (Highway Girl, Road to War, Bloody Tower, To Kill a Queen) and Boudicca and her Barmy Army was published in their Dead Famous series. Her own series, The Princess Files, about real princesses, was published by OUP.
More about Valerie WildingLisa Frenkel Riddiough is a graduate of Hamline University's MFAC program and lives in Northern California. She is a former sales executive, an avid squirrel watcher, and a frequent baker of chocolate pound cake.
Asa Gilland is a Swedish illustrator who lives in Indonesia with her husband, two boys, and cats in a little house More about Asa Gilland
