Remembering the Dead Around the World

by Anita Ganeri

Overview

Discover how people remember the passing of their loved ones all around the world. Featuring the world's main religions as well as some little-known ceremonies and festivals, this book takes an intriguing and colorful look at how death is commemorated in many different places.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781410980182
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	08/01/2015
Series:	Cultures and Customs
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	722,678
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 10.50(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	880L (what's this?)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

Anita Ganeri is an award-winning author of information books for children. Educated at Cambridge University, she has written more than 300 books, including the best-selling 'Horrible Geography' series (Scholastic Children's Books) which won a 2009 Blue Peter Book Award. She writes widely on animals and the natural world. A recent title for Raintree, A Day in the Life of Rainforest Animals: Capybara, has been shortlisted for a Maryland Blue Crab Award 2012. Anita lives in the north of England with her husband, children and assorted pets.

Table of Contents

Remembering loved ones — Day of the Dead — Smoking ceremony — Jewish funeral — Funeral gifts — Mourning clothes around the world — Watched by angels — Jazz funeral — Coffins around the world — Many lives — Sky burials — Turning the bones — Decorate a Day of the Dead skull.

Interviews

* Step-by-step activity spread shows how to make arts and crafts to complement the information in the book. * Vibrant photographs showing a wide range of festivals. * Focus spreads looking at particular aspects of around-the-world celebrations.

Editorial Reviews

11/01/2015
Gr 3–6—All humans commemorate life's milestones, and this set takes emerging readers to celebrations around the world. Double-page chapters describe how a wide variety of religious groups, subcultures, and nations mark important events, but books are short on background. Some spreads provide limited information about a culture or nation, including locator maps, but others merely describe ceremonies or rites, such as Hindu and Sikh weddings, with little explanation of their religious or cultural significance. The books don't explain the central tenets of world religions such as Islam or Hinduism, reducing the likelihood that readers will understand the importance of these ceremonies and customs. Sidebars, arts and craft projects, and large, average-quality photos supplement the text. VERDICT These volumes demonstrate the universality of celebrations, but there are many extant titles about specific countries, cultures, and religions that cover them in a fuller context, making the series a supplemental purchase.

School Library Journal

...[students] will appreciate the well-organized layout, the site accessibility and navigability, and the satisfyingly gory full-color illustrations (these vivid photo-like images are so lifelike that they might cause confusion regarding actual representations). This teaching and learning tool would be a worthwhile supplemental addition to public, school, and classroom collections. There are multiple curriculum connections, and audience demand for this subject remains steadfast.

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