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• Every Month Is a New Year

  Celebrations Around the World

  Singer, Marilyn

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  Taking the shape of a calendar, this collection of poems showcases new year celebrations, both secular and devotional, from across the globe and throughout the year by presenting a diversity of cultural, regional and religious traditions.

• Chloe's Lunar New Year

  LaMotte, Lily

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  Chloe and her family prepare for the new year by buying new shoes, lay out good-luck oranges in a bowl, decorate red envelopes and make a crispy turnip cake. Everyone comes together for a fantastic feast. * Includes a recipe for Crispy Turnip Cake…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wish Soup

  a Celebration of Seollal

  Park, Junghwa,

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  Sohee's favorite part of Seollal is tteokguk - the special Korean rice cake soup for New Year's Day. Each bowl is said to make a person one year older. This year, she learns that being a big girl is more than just how many bowls of tteokguk you eat.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Boys Don't Fry

  Lee, Kimberly,

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  Jin wants to learn about the history of his family's cooking and would love to help Mamah and his aunties cook a feast for Lunar New Year’s Eve, but will they let him? * Includes recipe for Peranakan Pongteh Chicken (Pernakan Chinese).

• Tzimmes for Tzipporah

  Hoyt, Megan,

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  A young girl and her family get ready for the traditional feast for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Family and friends gather to prepare fall root vegetables, mix them with honey and dried fruits, and cook into a traditional sweet vegetable…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black-eyed Peas and Hoghead Cheese

  a Story of Food, Family, and Freedom

  Armand, Glenda,

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  While visiting her grandma in Louisiana, nine-year-old Frances helps prepare the New Year’s Day meal, as she learns about the origins of the different dishes and soul food they prepare together. * Includes recipe for Fay's Fabulous Pralines (African…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Sweet New Year for Ren

  Sterling, Michelle

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  Little Ren watches family members her favorite pineapple cake for the New Year. When will Ren be old enough to help too? * Includes a recipe for pineapple cake (originated in Taiwan; enjoyed in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia).

• A Turkish Rosh Hashanah

  Basseri, Etan,

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  It's Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and Rafael and his cousins are shopping in a busy Turkish market for the ingredients for their family's Sephardic celebration, ending up on an adventure.

• Tray of Togetherness

  Leung, Flo

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  A family prepare to host a Lunar New Year party with the Cantonese tradition of a tray offering eight lucky snacks each with an auspicious meaning: peanuts for long life, pistachios for happiness, candied coconut for strong family ties. They return…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tomorrow Is New Year's Day

  Seollal, a Korean Celebration of the Lunar New Year

  Kim, Aram

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  Mina can't wait to share the customs of Seollal at school - by wearing her colorful hanbok and making tteokguk. Even her little brother, joins in on the fun.

• The Night Before Lunar New Year

  Wing, Natasha

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  Through rhyming text, a little girl is excited for all of the celebrations to come on the day of Lunar New Year. She prepares dumplings with her mom, as they get ready to go to the parade.

• Seven Special Somethings

  a Nowruz Story

  Khorram, Adib,

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  Kian and his family are preparing to celebrate Nowruz, the Persian New Year, when the cat wrecks the Haft-Seen table! Can Kian find seven special somethings before his family arrives?

• Freedom Soup

  Charles, Tami

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  Belle and Ti Gran dance and clap as they prepare a batch of Freedom Soup for the new year, a tradition dating back to the Haitian Revolution. * Includes recipe for Freedom Soup (Haitian).

• Hooray! Hooray! Nowruz Is Here!

  Roohani, Mojgan,

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  Learn more about Nowruz, the Persian New Year, now celebrated by many cultures and countries around the world, in their own different ways. Join our family as we celebrate by remembering some of the old Persian customs.

• Two New Years

  Ho, Richard (Children's author),

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  Inspired by his own Chinese and Jewish backgrounds, a family celebrates new year traditions in different ways highlighting many of the similarities. A 2024 Sydney Taylor award winner.

• We Celebrate the Light

  Yolen, Jane,

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  A story that speaks with reverence of shared traditions celebrating light, love, food, and family, while linking them all together.