This book is great, colourful and engaging. It contains a huge amount of information in a fun and engaging way. Perfect for the classroom. I shall be ordering school copies. .

I received an advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

A year full of Celebrations and Festivals is a beautiful, bright and eye catching book about numerous different celebrations and festivals celebrated across the globe.
Each event is explained in child friendly format in ways they will understand and is accompanied by lovely, bright illustrations and some have little bubbles of information spotted about the page.
This book is great for teaching children the basics of Celebrations and festivals and for them to learn about different cultures, religions and beliefs too.

A very descriptive colorful book about festivals around the world. I like how this book classified the festivals by season. A great encyclopedic book of festivals to have on your little ones bookshelf that you can reference again and again.

*Thanks to Quarto Publishing Group – Frances Lincoln Children’s Books and NetGalley for this Ebook in exchange for my honest review

Colorful, engaging book provides a glimpse of various celebrations around the world. Enjoyable way to learn about a variety of holidays & festivals, some just for fun like the tomato fight in Spain at La Tomatina.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an electronic copy to read and review.

I love love love this book - it is basically a guide to celebrations around the world! As a teacher I need this book to help me be aware of special days for various religions and cultures. As it is my responsibility to know them and not rely on my students to tell me, this book will provide a great starting place. I like how it is divided up by season, since many holidays follow a lunar calendar. I also appreciate how the events in the book are not all based on religions - things like Earth Day are great to celebrate and are universal to all humans. Also - the pictures are colourful and fun to look at!

I received an electronic ARC from Quarto Publishing Group – Frances Lincoln Children's Books through NetGalley.
Grace creates a thorough summary of holidays celebrated around the world. She takes readers through a wide variety of events and explains their significance in simple to follow text. No one religion or country is stressed so readers are introduced to a wide variety of faiths and celebrations. The illustrations are brightly colored and draw readers' eyes to feel the energy and excitement with each event. Some of the text is smaller than I prefer for this level but the short blurbs work to include further information.
Looking forward to sharing this with our students.

This book is so gorgeous that I wish that I had a hardcopy to enjoy with my children for years to come. I will be looking for a copy of this. It is so beautiful and brightly colored and has a wealth of information on various celebrations throughout the year. It is informative and fun to go through.

This was an interesting collection of popular and not-so-popular festivals and celebrations worldwide. It was nice to have a glimpse into what various cultures celebrate across the world. I appreciated how the author tried to include a diverse range of festivities within a single book. From religious holidays to personality-oriented celebrations to dedications to nature-based festivals, the book seemed to traverse the whole gamut of human festivities. Just one point of contention though. Hajj is not a celebration or a festival but a religious pilgrimage for Muslims that must be carried out at least once in their lifetime. It is akin to putting a Christian's visit to the Vatican or a Hindu's visit to Amarnath as a celebration. Accomplishing the pilgrimage might be a cause for celebration, the pilgrimage itself is not a celebration.

I am pretty sure the ARC copy messed up the font in some way because in many text bubbles, the font went beyond the designated circular boundary. It also seemed unnaturally plain as contrasted with the bright multi-hued illustrations.

The sketches were pretty good and catchy.

This is a beautiful book and I think it would be perfect for any educator or family with children. The colors are bright and inviting and truly capture the spirit of each holiday. The book is broken up by season and has expansive lists of all different types of festivals and holidays. It is such an amazing way for children to explore new cultures and learn more about the world around them. This would be perfect for educators to use with their students and introduce them to a great variety of holidays around the world!

I am sure this book would be much, much better in the physical format when you read it.

As for the contents, it serves the title well.

The illustrations are great and relevant.

However, it's the descriptions that seem a bit too crowded and small.

Otherwise, it's a very insightful and informative read for everyone. The kids will enjoy the vibrant art and the diversity in the art.

Thank you, authors and the publisher for the advance reading copy.

A vibrant book about celebrations and festivals celebrated all over the world. A Year Full of Celebrations and Festivals is organized by season going through many events that take place from religious holidays, cultural traditions, to whimsical festivals. I didn't love the illustration style, but the pictures are vibrant and very fun. This would be an excellent reference or gift for elementary school aged children.

Thank you Quarto Publishing Group – Frances Lincoln Children's Books and NetGalley for providing this ARC.

This title is bright, colorful and packed with celebrations. It is organized by seasons. To give a few examples, spring occasions include St. Patrick’s Day, Hanami, Easter and Earth Day among others, while summer has entries on International Children’s Day, Barunga and Palio di Siena, for example. Autumn holidays include Diwali, Thanksgiving and The Pearly Kings and Queens Harvest Festival among others and a few of the winter times include Bodhi Day, Chinese New Year and The Festival of the Dancing Masks.

Young readers can find out more about holidays they know while also broadening their knowledge of world culture and holidays. All in all, this is a very nice and inclusive title and a good one for home or school libraries.

Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher. All opinions are my own.This title is bright, colorful and packed with celebrations. It is organized by seasons. To give a few examples, spring occasions include St. Patrick’s Day, Hanami, Easter and Earth Day among others, while summer has entries on International Children’s Day, Barunga and Palio di Siena, for example. Autumn holidays include Diwali, Thanksgiving and The Pearly Kings and Queens Harvest Festival among others and a few of the winter times include Bodhi Day, Chinese New Year and The Festival of the Dancing Masks.

Young readers can find out more about holidays they know while also broadening their knowledge of world culture and holidays. All in all, this is a very nice and inclusive title and a good one for home or school libraries.

Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher. All opinions are my own.

A very good book indeed, destined for many educators' shelves, this takes a suitably global approach to show us a calendar of celebrations, events, parades and spurious days off work that people might have. Chronologically we go from ancient pagan times, Walpurgisnacht and suchlike, through early religious rites (the obvious Easter, Christmas etc) up to more modern conventions (Earth Day, et al). Going through the year, the book starts with spring, whether that be Holi or the Japanese Blossom Festivals, and carries on back to the winter months again. Each main entry gets a very colourful double-page spread, with the main core of the text restricted to one page, and three or four factoids spread across that and the full-page image accompanying. Other spreads round-up similar things for us to consider, such as different countries and how they have a day of fun in celebration of their ruler. The text can feel a little unnecessarily hectoring at times, urging us to join in with International Women's Day for example, but it is clear, it shows us why things are being celebrated and of course how, and the whole is a resounding success, colourfully achieving what it set out to do. Worth celebrating, then. Four and a half stars.