Harvest Days: Giving Thanks Around the World
by Kate DePalma; illus. by Martina Peluso
Primary    Barefoot    40 pp.    g
9/22    978-1-64686-626-7    $17.99
Paper ed.  987-1-64686-627-4    $9.99

A series of eye-pleasing, digitally rendered double-page spreads depicts twelve different holiday traditions around the world (e.g., Martes de Challa in Bolivia; Crop Over in Barbados) related to giving thanks. The text is rhyming couplets, with useful explanatory sidebars and pronunciations that make potentially unfamiliar vocabulary approachable. Thorough back matter further describes the cultures, histories, beliefs, and food. Also appended are a calendar of when these holidays are celebrated, questions to encourage contemplation of how food is sourced, and author and illustrator notes.

From the November/December 2022 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.