Celebrate diverse cultures while highlighting how expressions of joy and connection are all part of the human experience.

Cultures all over the world celebrate and honor family members in different ways. In Celebrating Families Around the World, readers will explore holidays, customs, and traditions that show love and appreciation for the people in our lives that help make us who we are and learn about these family celebrations:

• An American Mother’s Day
• A Mexican Día Del Níno
• Chinese Xiao
• A Zulu Imbeleko ceremony

The How the World Celebrates series offers readers the chance to explore celebrations like never before, taking a journey around the globe to see how young people experience important celebrations in their lives and the lives of their family and community. Through the lens of young people from around the world, one from the United States, and three others from places across the globe, readers will experience the excitement and joy of cultural and community traditions that bring people together.

This narrative nonfiction series uses considerate text that is written at a higher maturity level with a lower reading level to engage and accommodate struggling readers and includes sidebars that support geography, world history, and world cultures curriculum.