new year celebrations in different places Robin Johnson Crabtree Publishing Company www crabtreebooks com
Our Global Community People all around the world are part of communities A community is a group of people who live work and play in the same area Each person belongs to a local community which includes their school or neighborhood There are more than 7 billion people who live on planet Earth Together we all belong to one big community the global community 4 Hogmanay Scotland page 19 Times Square gathering New York City page 10
Different and alike All people in the global community are connected They are different in many ways They are also the same in many ways Learning how people around the world celebrate the New Year helps us see how we are different and the same In this book you will learn how people celebrate the New Year in different places Many of these places are shown on the map below Lantern Festival China page 11 Songkran Thailand page 15 Mwaka Kogwa Tanzania page 17 5
