Children's ✦ Penny’s Take
Let's Celebrate!
Caroline Parry · 1987
75/100
👍 Worth It
A 256-page celebration of over 250 Canadian holidays — seasonal, religious, ethnic, patriotic — packed with recipes, crafts, jokes, and science experiments in the margins. This Toronto IODE Award winner is genuinely ambitious in its multicultural scope and hands-on design, and for a Canadian classroom library it remains a distinctive resource even decades on. The 1987 publication date means some demographic and cultural details have aged, but the core approach of honoring diversity through celebration holds up.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety90
substance78
craft74
originality78
accuracy68
hype72
age-fit82
human-eye75
Penny’s verdict75
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