Let's Celebrate! Festival Poems from Around the World

by Chatterjee, Debjani; D'Arcy, Brian; Adl, Shirin

• ISBN13: 9781847804792
• ISBN10: 1847804799
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-05-20
• Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books

Summary

This exciting anthology of poems celebrates festivals all over the world. From Chinese New Year to Carnival, from Thanksgiving to Holi, and from Purnima to Diwali.

This book of poetry includes explanations of the festivals at the back of the book, and colorful and atmospheric illustrations by Shirin Adl.

Author Biography

Debjani Chatterjee has been called "a poet full of wit and charm," (Andrew Motion) and "a national treasure" (Barry Tebb). She has written and edited well over 50 books, including Animal Antics, Masala, and The Elephant-headed God and Other Hindu Tales. Her multilingual interactive play The Honoured Guest was toured by Twisting Yarn Theatre. Her residencies have included the Ilkley Literature Festival, Bedfordshire Schools, Kelvin Grove Museum and Art Gallery, Sheffield Children's Hospital, and the Millennium Galleries. She lives in Sheffield, U.K. Brian D'Arcy is an Anglo-Irish poet who has contributed to many anthologies of children's poetry and has had two collections published. He retired from lecturing at Sheffield Hallam University, after having previously lectured in Huddersfield, Blackburn, and Lancaster. He won an Edward Lear Centenary Limerick Competition and lives in Sheffield, U.K., with his wife Debjani Chatterjee. Shirin Adl was born in the U.K. but was brought up in Iran. She studied Illustration at Loughborough University, going on to win the Hallmark M&S Talented Desginer Award. She was Booktrust's official illustrator for Children's Book Week in 2010. Her work includes Pea Boy: Stories from Iran with Elizabeth Laird and Ramadan Moon with Na'ima B Robert. She lives in Oxford, U.K.

Table of Contents

Contents



Introduction

The Chinese Dragon by Catherine Benson

The Pancake by Christina Rossetti

Tossing Pancakes by Nick Toczek

Ice Festival by Brian D'Arcy

Carnival by Valerie Bloom

Three Loud Cheers for Esther by Debjani Chatterjee and Brian D'Arcy

Saint Patrick's Day by Brian D'Arcy

A Card for me Mom by Bashabi Fraser

Colours of Holi by Debjani Chatterjee

Baisakhi by Anonymous

Cherry Blossom Haiku by Uejima Onitsura and Kobayashi Issa

Easter Lily by June Masters Bacher

Grandma's Easter Eggs by Wes Magee

Dance, Dance by Anonymous

Poe-Tree for Arbor Day by Sue Hardy-Dawson

On Buddha Purnima by Bashabi Fraser

Ode to Tomatoes (extracts) by Pablo Neruda

Harvest by Joan Poulson

Harvest Festival by Simon Fletcher

Eid Mubarak! Eid Congratulations by Kazi Nazrul Islam

Moon Cakes for Trung Thu by Mandy Coe

Hallowe-en by Jill Townsend

Diwali by Debjani Chatterjee

Hannukah by Andrea Shavick

Thanksgiving by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Pilgrims Came by Anonymous

Christmas Bells (extract) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Christmas Pudding by Anonymous

Kwanzaa by Anonymous

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