Author: Edna BarthPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618067824
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Explains the origins of and relates stories associated with familiar Halloween symbols.
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts
Author: Edna BarthPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618067824
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Explains the origins of and relates stories associated with familiar Halloween symbols.
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts
Author: Edna BarthPublisher:
ISBN: 9780605398078
Category : Halloween
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Origins explained and stories related about symbols associated with familiar Halloween symbols.
Hearts, Cupids, and Red Roses
Author: Edna BarthPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618067916
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Traces the history of Valentine's Day and the little-known stories behind its symbols.
Shamrocks, Harps, and Shillelaghs
Author: Edna BarthPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618096510
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Shamrocks, shillelaghs, reed pipes, and leprechauns--these are some of the many symbols that remind us of St. Patrick's Day. Who was St. Patrick? And what is this early spring holiday all about? With warmth and vitality, Edna Barth tells the colorful stories, legends, and historical facts behind St. Patrick's Day and shows how the spirit of this ancient Irish holiday is still alive in many countries. Illustrated with black and white drawings by Ursula Arndt, this is a book to be discovered and read with pleasure by young readers. All of Edna Barth's classic holiday books are now being reissued with fresh, new jacket designs and fun activities inside the paperback covers.
Turkeys, Pilgrims, and Indian Corn
Author: Edna BarthPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618067855
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Traces the history of this American harvest celebration and the development of its symbols and legends.
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts
Author: Edna BarthPublisher: Turtleback
ISBN: 9780606209960
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Explains the origins of and relates stories associated with familiar Halloween symbols.
Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life
Author: Jack SantinoPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870498138
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
However, the essays in this volume also suggest that there is something ironic and unsettling about the immense popularity of a holiday whose main images are of death, evil, and the grotesque. Halloween and Other Festivals of Death and Life is a unique contribution that questions our concepts of religiosity and spirituality while contributing to our understanding of Halloween as a rich and diverse reflection of our society's past, present, and future identity.
From Pumpkin Time to Valentines
Author: Susan OhanianPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313079641
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Keep students happily focused on learning during two of the most exciting holidays of the year for the elementary classroom-Halloween and Valentine's Day. Poems and excerpts are used as launching points for such projects as writing spooky tongue twisters or designing animal valentine cartoons. Reproducible language arts strategies teach word play, interviewing, letter writing, research skills, problem solving, and metaphorical language while encouraging divergent thinking. Grades 1-5.
Lilies, Rabbits, and Painted Eggs
Author: Edna BarthPublisher:
ISBN: 9780618096466
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The history of Easter symbols, from their Christian and pagan origins to such present-day additions as rabbits and new clothes, are explained in this book that includes original holiday activities. Full-color illustrations.
Fireworks, Picnics, and Flags
Author: James Cross GiblinPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618096541
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Traces the social history behind America's celebration of Independence Day and explains the background of such national symbols as the flag, the bald eagle, the Liberty Bell, and Uncle Sam.