Festivals of the World for Kids
BeginnerEight episodes for children aged 6 to 8, hosted by Mig, a five-year-old boy who goes around the planet one festival at a time. The course runs on a map with eight pins: seven of them sit on a country and one of them is nowhere at all, because its festival happens at every other pin at once. It opens in Brazil, where Carnival has no fixed date and every city holds a different one — the samba school parade in Rio, the three-metre puppets of Olinda, and the costume that is not for hiding but for being anybody. Then Holi in India, where the coloured powder is called gulal and covered in colour everybody looks alike. Then the Chinese New Year, which follows the moon and lasts fifteen days, where the lion has two people inside and the dragon has a whole team holding it on poles. Then Hanami in Japan, a festival with no date that starts when a cherry tree decides to blossom and lasts about a week. Then the Day of the Dead in Mexico, a day of tidying the house and welcoming the people the family loves, with sugar skulls that carry the name of a living person. Then Songkran, the New Year of Thailand, made of water in the hottest month of the year. Then Inti Raymi in Peru, on the shortest day of the year, banned for centuries and brought back. And it closes with the midnight that takes twenty-six hours to go around the Earth.
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See allNo line ends in an interjection
The catchphrase comes BEFORE the closing sentence, always
Carnival and Holi are stuck together on purpose
Two festivals on almost the same date that want opposite things
A big number never becomes a cue word
Whisper writes 26 where the narration says twenty-six
Twenty-seven photos, and none repeated between episodes
The repeat gate stayed switched on from beginning to end
