Dussehra and Durga Puja (Celebrate Your Festival Handbook)

Dussehra and Durga Puja (Celebrate Your Festival Handbook)

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Book Specification

Item Code: NAE914
Publisher: Hechhette Book Publishing India Pvt. Ltd
Language: English
Edition: 2011
ISBN: 9789350093290
Pages: 144
Cover: Paperback
Other Details 7.0 inch X 5.0 inch
Weight 170 gm

Book Description

About the Book

Bring on the celebrations - it’s Durga Puja and Dussehra time! Ten whole days for fun and festivals, and for thanking the gods and goddesses for their blessings. From fasting to feasting, from Rama dramas to burning Ravanas, from exchanging leaves to exchanging gifts, different people in different parts of the country celebrate these festivals in all kinds of ways, and you can know all about it!

This book brings you wonderful stories about Dussehra and Durga Puja… Can you solve the case of a stolen idol? Or imagine a private mother goddess? Or figure out how festivals can help you be the most awesome person you can be? Or work out ways to fight a monster you can’t see, and win? It’s all h ere!

So why wait to celebrate? Open up the boxes of sweets, put your best clothes on, and tuck into this super collection of stories, folktales, myths, legends and activities.

Contents

Super Dussehra and Durga Puja Stories I
1 A Boy and a Lake 3
2 Tuli's Private Mother Goddess 17
3 The Best Hanuman 28
4 The Eight Extraordinary Brothers 39
5 The Idol of Arawal 45
6 The Night of the Eighth Day 62
7 Nine Times Night 73
8 A King's Repentance 85
All About Dussehra and Durga Puja 89
1 Dussehra Delights! 90
2 Durga Puja: The Asura Dies at the Hands of the Goddess! 92
3 The Daughter Durga Comes Home 94
4 The Agnyatvas of the Pandavas 96
5 Celebrating Dussehra & Durga Puja 97
6 Getting to Know the Goddess 102
7 Mahalaya 105
8 The Nine Forms of the Goddess 107
Fun Festival Activities III
Make a Rangoli
Panchamrutam
Match It If You Can
Balloon Flower Basket
Quick Coconut Balls
Make Snap-Up Kheer
Make a Junk Ravana
Sparkle Painting
Your Own Gods
Ravana Mask
Puffy Paint Gift Box
Festival Quotient
Marble Rolling Wrapping Paper
Crumble Wrap
State It Quiz
Cereal Box Gift Bag
Flower Centerpiece
Deco Plates
Wish-list Prayer and Thank-you List
Be the Change
Festivals Rock! Diary 131
Notes on the Contributors 136

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