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A Happy New Year's Day by Roch Carrier, is a wonderful illustration of the author's childhood experience of celebrating New Year. Christmas readings like A Happy New Year's Day by Roch Carrier exemplifies the various preparations for the joyful New Year's Day celebrations of Roch's childhood long before the winter came. While going through the book the readers are taken back to 1940, when the speaker was four years old. The text is simple and lucid, outlining many captivating details of daily life.
Christmas literature like A Happy New Year's Day by Roch Carrier, begins when the whole world was in the midst of a war, yet in the far away small Canadian village of Sainte Justine, the families carried on with their holiday celebrations.
While going through the story one can feel the warmth and happiness that unfolds when the family gathers together, though the story transcends time as the family mentioned in the story could just be a well be a modern-day one. The writing does not hover around in nostalgia. Playful illustrations also accompany the text.
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