Author: Jonny Zucker
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Keywords: time, festival, firecrackers, lanterns
Number of Pages: 24
Published: 2005-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1845070763
ISBN-13: 9781845070762

A simple introduction to the Chinese New Year festival. Follow a family as they let off firecrackers, watch the amazing dragon dances and light their beautiful lanterns to celebrate the start of their New Year. This pre-school series introduces young children to world religions and focuses on the way the festival is celebrated today. There is detailed historical and cultural information at the end for parents and teachers.

Author: Marian Wright Edelman
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Keywords: mentors, memoir, lanterns
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2000-09-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0060958596
ISBN-13: 9780060958596

Throughout her life and work, Marian Wright Edelman has been at the heart of this cantury’s most dramatic civil rights and child advocacy struggles. In this stirring, heartfelt memoir she pays tribute to the extrordinary mentors who helped light her way including Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, Fannie Lou Hamer, and William Slaone Coffin. She celebrates the lives of her parents and the great Black Women of Bennetsville, South Carolina- Miz Tee, Miz Lucy, Miz Kate-who gave her love and guidance in her youth, as well as the many teachers and figures who inspired her education