All the secrets of the new year

"All secrets of the New Year" are a colorful atmospheric publication for children of primary school age about the traditions of the most cozy holiday on the planet. The book tells readers that the New Year is a time reference point. And among different peoples of the world, it differs, like New Year"s traditions. On the pages of the book, children get acquainted with New Year"s wizards from different countries and find out how they celebrate their favorite holiday on all six continents.

Do you know that in one night the history of Russia has lost 5508 years from its chronology? This happened only 300 years ago thanks to the calendar reform of Peter I. And in China and Israel, people still live with their chronology. In Israel, the 5782nd year is now ending, and the Bengal New Year is celebrated on April 14. Readers learn these and other incredible facts about their favorite holiday from the book.

From the author:
"In the book" All the Secrets of the New Year, I wanted to tell the children not so much about the New Year"s holiday as about its essence. After all, the New Year is the point of counting time and at different times among different peoples it was significantly different. It has become relatively recently common to the peoples of our planet. The world is so different! And it was incredibly interesting to get acquainted with the New Year traditions of different parts of the globe.

To write about how the New Year is celebrated in space, under water and at different poles of the Earth, I and the artist of the project Alena Rondakova had a chance to chat with the real submariner - the captain of the second rank Andrei Vladimirovich Shatunov, astronaut Sergei Ryazan And the polar explorer Sergei Korobov, the head of the Bellingshausen station 66 RAE. And of course, on the pages of the book could not be without magic ... ".

From the book "All Secrets of the New Year", children learn about the New Year traditions of the countries of all six continents, as well as get acquainted with New Year"s wizards from Australia, Africa, China, Vietnam, Japan, India, Iran, Uzbekistan, Mexico , Brazil, Colombia. But the creators of the book did not forget about the brightest representatives of the holiday from Europe, Scandinavia and the USA. And a separate section was devoted to the New Year in our beautiful and multinational country