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Surely it''s of some significance, however, that Halloween is the one special day on the calendar without any religious, national or moral meaning (the vestigial connections to All Saints'' Eve having vanished long ago). The festival commemorates no event, cause or person, whether sacred or secular. There is no "tree meaning" of the day to be either enhanced or exploited by commercial display. Halloween is an invitation to pure, open-ended, individualistic play. For many people in a pluralistic society, in which public meanings are increasingly absent or contested, this kind of celebration may come as a great relief. Gr 2-4--These books, which are particularly strong in the information category, address a number of topics over one or two spreads. The useful, accurate texts answer such questions as why we say, "Trick or Treat!" on Halloween or why the heart is a symbol of Valentine''s Day. They are illustrated with full-page artwork. The pictures in Halloween feature bold colors and black outlines. Those in the other two titles are softer and less vibrant; Thanksgiving''s are somewhat static. These titles are comparable to Gail Gibbons''s nonfiction holiday offerings in their simplicity but have more information and are better organized.--Betsy Barnett, Eads School District, CO CHICAGO -- Halloween is second only to Christmas as the biggest shopping holiday for retailers. Though most of the buying for national discount retail chains is locked up nearly a year in advance, vendors and specialty retailers gathered in Chicago last month at the 16th National Halloween, Costume and Party Show to display what the industry hopes will be the hot costumes, accessories and home decor come this fall.
If festivals reveal something about the concerns of our culture, we have to wonder about the meaning of this new emphasis on Halloween. What does it tell us about Americans at the turn of the 21st century?Well, perhaps not all that much. In a consumer culture that is now enjoying a sustained period of prosperity, the expanded celebration of Halloween may simply reveal that Americans have found another way to spend money. Those cute witch-hat lights and glass Halloween ornaments sell because somebody has the money to make them and somebody else has the money to buy them. Leigh Schmidt of Princeton University, who has studied the development of holidays and their intimate connection to commercial forces, says that the market always works to expand and extend holidays, encouraging more elaborate ways to celebrate.
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