The Story of New Year: The True History of Fresh Starts (The Coexist Project Holiday History Books)

The Story of New Year: The True History of Fresh Starts (The Coexist Project Holiday History Books)

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The Story of New Year: The True History of Fresh Starts (The Coexist Project Holiday History Books)
  • The Story of New Year: The True History of Fresh Starts (The Coexist Project Holiday History Books)
  • The Story of New Year: The True History of Fresh Starts (The Coexist Project Holiday History Books)
  • The Story of New Year: The True History of Fresh Starts (The Coexist Project Holiday History Books)
  • The Story of New Year: The True History of Fresh Starts (The Coexist Project Holiday History Books)
The Story of New Year: The True History of Fresh Starts (The Coexist Project Holiday History Books)

The Story of New Year: The True History of Fresh Starts (The Coexist Project Holiday History Books)

$28.99
$28.99
Right now, somewhere on Earth, it is almost midnight.

The Story of New Year: The True History of Fresh Starts takes readers ages 8–12 on a journey around the world, following midnight as it travels west from the first island to welcome the New Year to the very last.

Part One: the story behind the New Year. Discover why people celebrate a new year at all, from the tilt of our planet to the "fresh-start feeling" scientists have studied; when the year begins on solar, lunar, and lunisolar calendars; where the oldest New Year festivals began, in ancient Babylon, Egypt, Persia, China, and the Americas; and what people everywhere do to welcome a fresh start.

Part Two: 12 midnights, 12 time zones. Hear the 108 temple bells of Japan, eat 12 lucky grapes in Spain, watch fireworks over the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, join a Malaysian open house, jump seven waves on Copacabana Beach, and count down with the Times Square ball. Discover why India and Pakistan welcome the New Year 30 minutes apart, and how Samoa skipped a whole day so that two neighboring islands now celebrate almost a day apart.

Along the way, meet the billions of people who also celebrate Lunar New Year, Nowruz, Rosh Hashanah, Enkutatash, Matariki, and many more New Years throughout the year.

Every chapter includes an "Ask Your Family" box that invites children to talk with parents and grandparents about how New Year was celebrated where their family comes from.

Perfect for families, classrooms, and homeschoolers, the book also includes "Did You Know?" boxes, hands-on activities, Mythbusters, conversation questions, a "Happy New Year" guide in 27 languages, a midnight time-zone chart, a timeline, a glossary, a Knowledge Challenge with answer key, and a fill-in Certificate of Achievement.

From The Coexist Project — books that help young readers understand the holidays and traditions of the people around them. One planet. One human story.

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