Lauren McNiven - Birthdays in Different Places

Authors: Lauren McNiven and Crystal Sikkens

Publishing plan research and development: Reagan Miller

Substantive editor: Crystal Sikkens

Editor: Reagan Miller

Notes to educators: Shannon Welbourn

Proofreader and indexer: Janine Deschenes

Design: Samara Parent

Photo research: Crystal Sikkens

Production coordinator and prepress technician: Samara Parent

Print coordinator: Margaret Amy Salter

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

McNiven, Lauren, author

Birthdays in different places / Lauren McNiven, Crystal Sikkens.

(Learning about our global community)

Includes index.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-0-7787-2011-9 (bound).--ISBN 978-0-7787-2017-1 (paperback).--

ISBN 978-1-4271-1652-9 (pdf). ISBN 978-1-4271-1646-8 (html)

Birthdays--Juvenile literature. I. Title.

GT2430.M36 2015 j394.2 C2015-903947-9

C2015-903948-7

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: McNiven, Lauren, author. | Sikkens, Crystal, author.

Title: Birthdays in different places / Lauren McNiven, Crystal Sikkens.

Description: New York : Crabtree Publishing Company, [2016] | Series:

Learning about our global community | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015032413| ISBN 9780778720119 (reinforced library binding

: alk. paper) | ISBN 9780778720171 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN

9781427116529 (electronic pdf : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781427116468

(electronic html : alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Birthdays--Cross-cultural studies--Juvenile literature.

Classification: LCC GT2430 .M46 2016 | DDC 394.2--dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015032413

Photographs:

Alamy: Agencja Fotograficzna Caro: pp5 (top left), (top); Israel images: pp5 (bottom right), 7; Richard Rickard: p8; Bon Appetit: p14; AA World Travel Library: p16

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Superstock: Travel Pix Collection / Jon Arnold Images: pp5 (top right), 9; Cultura Limited p17

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Front cover: A family celebrates a boys Bar Mitzvah at the Western Wall (or Wailing Wall) in Israel.

Contents page: Shichi-Go-San (Seven-Five-Three) is a traditional celebration in Japan for children ages three, five, and seven. It is celebrated every year on November

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Our Global Community ..........

Everyone Has a Birthday .......

Cultural Traditions ..................

Food .......................................

Birthday Decorations ...........

Birthday Games ....................

Name Day ..............................

Coming-of-age Birthdays .....

New Traditions ......................

Notes to Educators ...............

Learning More .......................

Glossary and Index ..............

Contents

Our Global Community

Did you know that you share Earth with more than seven billion people? All these people live in different countries around the world. Each country is made up of many small communities . A community is a group of people that live, work, and play in the same area. Everyone on Earth also belongs to one huge communitythe global community.

quinceaera celebration, Cuba (page 19)

piata game, Mexico (page 15)

Different and alike

Finding out how people in our global community live helps us understand how we are all the same in some ways. It also teaches us about the special things that make us unique , or different.

Everyone in the world has a birthday! This is one way we are all alike. In this book you will learn how people in different areas of the world celebrate birthdays. Some of these places are shown on the map below.

birthday wreath Germany, (page 13)

lifting the birthday person in a chair, Israel, (page 7)

fried plantain birthday dessert, Ghana (page 10)

third, fifth, and seventh birthday festival, Japan (page 9)