Ezra Jack Keats' The Little Drummer Boy and Four More Holiday Stories (NR, 2006)
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Scholastic drums up memorable multicultural tales.
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that The Little Drummer Boy, one of four stories included in this Scholastic collection, is about the birth of Jesus. In the story Sam and the Lucky Money, a young Asian-American boy encounters a homeless man in Chinatown while celebrating Chinese New Year with his mother. In Merry Christmas, Space Case, a boy is threatened by two neighborhood bullies. And in The Tomten, the title characters, who look like trolls or gnomes, were considered spirit beings connected to the winter solstice and the pagan celebration of Yuletide.
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Some threats by neighborhood bullies in the story Merry Christmas, Space Case.
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