Norooz A Celebration of Spring! The Persian New Year

"Norooz - A Celebration of Spring! The Persian New Year" is a wonderful book. It is a beautiful children's book, but as an adult, I learned so much about Norooz as well. Every page is filled with interesting details and information. There is even a section with pertinent Persian vocabulary and an accompanying pronunciation guide. The illustrations are bright and happy and made me smile as I read along. My 10 year old absolutely loved the book and has asked me to read it to him multiple times. Absolutely delightful book! I hope to see more from Hejazi and Cavallo - they truly have a gift.

We liked the book so much that after buying one for our daughter, we are getting a 2nd one to gift the school library. As a reference, we have purchased other Norouz children's book and find this one better.An engaging book, giving the reader a chance to read and experience all aspects of Persian New Year.Nice touches * allowing reader to visualize Norouz traditions and how it compares to other New year traditions.* allowing reader to see that Persian New Year has been celebrated for many years and is continuing to be celebrated not only in Iran but all around the world.What I would like to see in the next edition:* Mention of how the Haft seen table can be different from one family to another. I had never heard of Tangerine or Rosewater on Haft Seen table for example.* It would be nice to have an appendix to the book with some classroom activities.

A useful introductory book canvassing the customs and origins of the Persian New Year. As a native Persian I'm supposed to know all this stuff already, but it was revealed to me at a recent family gathering that my familiarity of was, shall we say, spotty -- I felt like I was going to die of shame. Like, who knew that the garlic on the haft-seen table symbolizes medicine? Now, I have a Persian nephew who could stand to learn about his heritage so I ostensibly brought the book for him, but secretly perused it myself first... two birds with one stone. Highly recommended.

So much awesomeness about this book. It's educational, enlightening, and delightful. And it goes without saying, teaching kids about other cultures is vital to sustaining a peaceful society. Gail shows with care how Persians celebrate the New Year (Norooz), demonstrating the richness of Persian culture in a language and manner that kids can relate to. The illustrations are goofy and great, sure to get kids smiling and engaged. I'm excited to gift this to as many kids as possible, especially as Norooz approaches!

Wonderful quality and great and easy understanding of the Iranian new year! We gifted this to several families with a present to learn about the new year!!! All ages!!!

We are originally from Ukraine and New Year is the most widely celebrated and beloved holiday over there. It's still our favorite, so it's always interesting to find out how it's celebrated by different cultures and in other parts of the world. It was fun to look for similarities and differences in the traditions. The book is well written, educational, and easy to read. We loved bright colorful pictures which made the reading really fun.

Very good book. But when I read it to my 4th graders they didn't understand it much so I recommend the book for 6th graders and up. Still it is a great book and I recommend it if you are looking to read it for 6th grade and up.

Excellent book

Bought this for my 4 year old granddaughter. Her mum is Iranian and she said it was a great book to explain Norwuz to her child. Highly recommended.

The book contains factual inaccuracies (eg. Chaharshanbeh soori is on Tuesday not Wednesday, the item on the haftsin is narenj not narengi (tangerine), I have never heard of golab on haft sin, etc) and contains a couple typos. If you can look past that the illustrations are entertaining and the rest of the book is okay.

This is a short book very good for kids age 3 years up. My daughter started to learn about nowrouz celebration and absolutely enjoyed this book

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this book was not properly bound. the first page is in the middle of the book.