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product_id: 8013223
title: "The Shortest Day: Celebrating the Winter Solstice Hardcover – September 22, 2003"
brand: "wendy pfefferjesse reisch"
price: "₨16837"
currency: LKR
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reviews_count: 10
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# The Shortest Day: Celebrating the Winter Solstice Hardcover – September 22, 2003

**Brand:** wendy pfefferjesse reisch
**Price:** ₨16837
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- **What is this?** The Shortest Day: Celebrating the Winter Solstice Hardcover – September 22, 2003 by wendy pfefferjesse reisch
- **How much does it cost?** ₨16837 with free shipping
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Great Ritual to Kick off Winter with Family!
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 22, 2023*

My kids and I love reading this book together each December!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Love This Book
  

*by R***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 20, 2021*

Our family is very mixed spiritually. So we celebrate everyone’s holidays. In December, this is the book we read (over and over) to explain and celebrate the myriad of holidaze folk have come up with around the Winter Solstice.This has become our family’s (extended, into 3rd & 4rth generations now) foundational book for the Holidaze. We also read others, of course, onesvhonoring the diversity of our choices.But this is THE book/story we all look forward to reading aloud when the decorations start coming out the Saturday after Thanksgiving! Repeatedly thru the next 6-8 weeks, sometimes one reading it all, sometimes passing it to the next readrr every few pages, simetimes impromptu acting out parts of it.It works well for us all, in various small & larger gatherings of the extensive family.

### ⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Not as good as the rest of the series.
  

*by S***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 24, 2018*

This is not a read all at once book. It is best to do a little bit at a time, discuss, do hands on activities, etc. then come back the next day and do the next section.  Book covers winter solstice, cultural history, various celebrations around the world, and some hands on things to do.  However. the illustrations are not on par with the three other books and the book in general was not engaging or effective.  The lack of clear diagrams especially at the start of the book (as done the fall book) or even when explaining why there was a shortest day of the year.... was frankly a HUGE missed opportunity to help kids understand the science.  The summary of the celebrations were odd and frankly I would rather read an encyclopedia's definition than this book's.  For example: St. Lucia's Day is a mix of pagan and Christian traditions yet the book played it off as only pagan.  Then they showed the modern Christmas in images, but said absolutely nothing about the holiday and did not even mention its name.  Why could the book not be honest that Christmas started as a pagan holiday with lots of traditions that were blended with Christian traditions (a lot like St. Lucia's Day).  At the end of the book, there was no list of other cultural celebrations to research (like the fall book did).  The hands on stuff at the end of the book were also not as interesting as in the fall book.  I am just amazed that two books, in the same series, by the same author, would feel so different.  In the fall book, I felt there was so much information that we could have a whole unit... and in the winter book, I felt like I would have to do a lot of work on my own to make a unit and that it had far less information.  So overall, I was underwhelmed with the winter book.Cautions: For parents, please consider the following context before buying the book. Many of the cultural celebrations include offerings to gods, particularly sun gods. No worship of the Biblical god was mentioned and the word Christmas was not mentioned even though images were shown of that holiday.  There is no Christian symbolism either, only the pagan or secular side of holidays are shown.

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