SOCIAL SCIENCES
Spirn, Michele

New Year

(4) 4-6 World Celebrations and Ceremonies series. Four volumes featuring the same ten countries (Brazil, India, the United States, and others) describe how each celebrates the harvest, the new year, a baby's birth, and a child's coming of age. Clear (if rather brief) texts, maps, and full-color photographs give readers a mere taste of the similarities and differences between ceremonies marking the cycles of life. Bib., glos., ind.

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