A World of Holidays!

This 1993 Silver Moon Press collection brings together five short stories in which children from different cultures face real problems during holiday celebrations — a Japanese girl anxious about her kimono for New Year's, a Pakistani boy briefly losing his brother while shopping for Eid, a Namibian boy experiencing Independence Day, and a Haudenosaunee creation story told during Thanksgiving preparation. The cultural information is woven into the fiction naturally, and the problem-and-resolution structure keeps young readers engaged. For multicultural classroom use, it is a thoughtful resource. The honest caveats are practical: the book is out of print and not easy to find, and critical review data is thin. Parents with concerns about exposure to non-Christian religious traditions should know the book depicts Islamic, Native American, and East Asian holidays respectfully but without a Christian frame. A useful find if you can locate a copy.