Our traditions, 4: Carols
Psichogios Publications | 2023 | Illustrations: Adriana Roussou
Schools close in December for the Christmas holidays, streets and squares are decorated, cities and villages take on a festive appearance. This is the way it is now, and the way it was in the old days. Imagine your grandparents when they were kids, holding their triangles or ships and going from house to house or to the shops in the market, with their friends, to sing the carols for Christmas, the New Year and Epiphany. This custom is so beloved that it has lasted up to our own day. What do you say, shall we read the carols together? And if you’d like to sing them, so much the better!
Critical Reviews
Using simple but multiple gestures, Tsitas and Boubouri have brought a large, joyful and entertaining part of tradition to centerstage.
This is a book that is a delight for the eyes from the point of view of illustrations and rich content, given that it can be read with pleasure by both children and adults. Each one has a brief yet comprehensive introduction, suggesting indirect and pleasurable ways of using them.
Giannis S. Papadatos, bookpress.gr, 03/02/24
Brilliant, inventive, perceptive, density, humour, a sense of belonging, worthy rules and standards are invested with wonderful accuracy and simplicity.
Vivi Kopsida-Vrettou, literature.gr, 18/12/23
Yesterday continues to be enjoyable even today and the two authors show it with their delightful, useful and entertaining books in the series, which continues with Riddles and Carols. Thanks to these books, young readers familiarise themselves with our folklore, which perhaps they imagine inaccessible or boring but which finally they can learn about through games.
Panos Tourlis, vivliokritikes.com, 3/12/23
A book which children will love and in which their parents and teachers will find material for games and songs.
Eleni Korovila, bookpress.gr, 1/12/23
Makis Tsitas and Rania Boubouri possess a long-standing successful record in the field of writing children’s books, each with a large number of titles. Their fertile collaboration in the series “Our Tradition” concerns our folkloric wealth and the two authors manage to bring it close to children in a playful way . . .
Toula Repani, fractalart.gr, 28/11/23