Birthdays: Beyond Cake and Ice Cream - Hardcover

by Nikki Tate (Author), Dani Tate-Stratton (Author)

Inspired by memories of fantastic family birthday parties, mother-and-daughter team Nikki Tate and Dani Tate-Stratton researched the history of birthdays in order to answer such questions as, How much does where you grow up influence the way you celebrate getting a year older? Have people always celebrated birthdays? The more they investigated, the more they realized that there's a lot more to birthdays than cake, presents, a few games and perhaps a goody bag. They discovered there are as many ways to observe birthdays as there are places in which to do it.

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history, food, ceremonies, family traditions, recipes, gifts, games, growing up, elders, grandparents