Subtitle: Christmas Around the World: Australia - India
This publication, and its sister book (volume 2), provide students with everything they could possibly wish to know about Christmas. Carefully researched and thoughtfully presented the book is a celebration of many nations' Christmas traditions, customs, festivities and beliefs.
Apart from the many excellent Christmas writing ideas and suggestions there are Christmas topics to debate in class and interesting activities for fast finishers. Students will learn about Pre Fouettard (Father Spanker), the stern disciplinarian who accompanies Pere Noel (Father Christmas) to French children's homes at Christmas time. They will come to know of a mischievous Christmas elf, Julnisse, who lives in the attic and plays jokes on Danish families; but is it such a joke to steal the Christmas pudding! These and many other insights into other countries' Christmases are sure to delight all teachers and their students.
Ideal for school libraries, classroom teachers and relief teachers.