What do people celebrate in different parts of the world? A winning soccer game? Holidays or birthdays? Young readers will find out in Celebrating. A Book-of-the-Month Club Featured Alternate Selection.
Gwenyth Swain is the author of more than two dozen books for young readers. A two-time winner of a Minnesota Book Award for children's nonfiction, she loves history and historical fiction. Ms. Swain runs the middle school and high school libraries at Twin Cities Academy in St. Paul. Formerly, she was a costumed history player at historic Fort Snelling, a soda jerk, and a bookstore clerk.