Reviews for Fiestas del mundo: Celebremos Navidad: con villancicos, regalos y paz

The average rating for Fiestas del mundo: Celebremos Navidad: con villancicos, regalos y paz based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-12-07 00:00:00 I.j. White So yes and for me personally, the best and most academically, intellectually useful (and also the most interesting) parts of Deborah Heiligman's Celebrate Christmas: With Carols, Presents, and Peace (aside from the aesthetically pleasant and colourful accompanying photographs which are truly very much international in scope and do brightly and eclectically depict and demonstrate the many different nuances and traditions of Christmas celebrations around the world) are the educational supplemental nuggets of information at the back of the book (especially the bibliographical lists as well as Nathan Humphrey's enlightening afterword), which I do consider very much not only as appreciated added bonuses but also that which makes Celebrate Christmas: With Carols, Presents, and Peace a definite three star book for me, as well as a more than adequate introduction to Christmas as a globally celebrated holiday. For while the narrative proper of Celebrate Christmas: With Carols, Presents and Peace, while Deborah Heiligman's main text does indeed provide a basic and generally engaging, enlightening introduction to the Christmas season, without the above mentioned included supplemental details, I for one would most definitely not have really all that much enjoyed (and gotten all that much intellectual use out of) Celebrate Christmas: With Carols, Presents, and Peace, as in my opinion, there really should be a bit more of an in-depth discussion and analysis of the Nativity Story included (and its religious significances) and how what we now celebrate as Christmas is in many ways a combination and compilation of the New Testament accounts of Jesus Christ's birth and pagan winter/solstice traditions (which information, while indeed alluded to and briefly shown in the main part of Celebrate Christmas: With Carols, Presents and Peace is also and in my humble opinion textually simply thrown out there so to speak, is not as I would want and desire explained and discussed even remotely sufficiently). But indeed and happily, Deborah Heiligman does then at least to and for me rather redeem Celebrate Christmas: With Carols, Presents and Peace in so far that much of the supplemental and additional information at the back is indeed both more interesting and also considerably more in-depth than the main narrational body of Celebrate Christmas: With Carols, Presents and Peace (with especially the bibliographical information and the explanatory afterword by Nathan Humphrey being like the icing on a cake for me, in particular since Humphrey's afterword does provide the religious analysis and discussion of the Nativity Story that I have found wanting in Deborah Heiligman's printed words, but then of course, said afterword is also rather densely academic and much more suitable for and to older children and adults).

Review # 2 was written on 2018-11-25 00:00:00 Gabriel Banyay One of my 3rdclasses was doing research and a student wanted to research Christmas. I found we hardly had any books on it in our collection for our younger students. This is one from National Geographic. It presents it in a very pictoral way for lower level readers. It has nice bold subtopics. I found this author writes a lot of informational books and will probably get more of them.