Erlbach also includes crafts, recipes and other New Year-related activities for you to do all are simple and kid-friendly (if not always authentic) requiring little or no adult assistance. There are maps, pronunciation guides, and the date - or dates! - the New Year is celebrated. For each country she gives a brief, basic description of some of the traditions and their backgrounds. In some places the New Year doesn’t even begin on January first - it begins in February or April or even September!Īrlene Erlbach has collected New Year customs from all over the world - twenty countries in all, including Japan, Israel, Greece, Chile and more. Sing “Auld Lang Syne” and watch fireworks with your family?Įat twelve grapes at midnight and count to twelve as fast as you can? Wear a scary mask to frighten away evil spirits and bad luck?Įat vasilopita with a coin hidden inside for good fortune? These are just a few of the many different ways people celebrate the New Year around the world. How do you celebrate the New Year? Do you. Founded in the year 2000, continues to help readers in choosing good books. Here is the book review written by Wendy Morris from, a website that evaluates not only children’s book but also books for teenagers and adults. She is a member of Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrator and also a reading teacher in Chicago. Noted for her award winning teen romance book “Does Your Nose Get in the Way, Too,?”, Arlene Erlbach wrote books ranging from fiction, non-fiction, how-to and even facts- based books. “ I’ve always loved to write and make up stories” – Arlene Erlbach In addition to the film and novelization, there were two made-for-TV sequels and a short-lived TV series that picked up where the movies left off.Happy New Year Everywhere by Arlene Erlbach will give a glimpse on the ways how people from the different parts of the world celebrate the first day of the year. The film and novelization are fictionalized versions of this girl’s life: The novelization by Norma Klein (<- LOVE HER!) is better than a hundred-thousand Lurlene McDaniel novels, especially if you’re partial to hippies, teen moms, would-be amputees, and syrupy poems written from a premature deathbed. I am willing to bet you’ve never heard of this film, but according to my mother and others like her, it was once seminal for any earth-loving teen who ever loved John Denver and longed for an aestheticized death. It’s not easy most of the time, but there is a real beauty in knowing that your end is going to catch up with you sooner than you expected and you have to get all your loving and laughing and crying in as soon as you can!” Dying is beautiful, even the first time around at the ripe old age of 20.
“Boy, I want them to play Country Roads at my funeral. Holy mackerel, you can now watch the entire 1973 made-for-tv movie Sunshine in 13 ten-minute increments on Youtube! So pumped!
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