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Raashi's Rakhis: A New Celebration of Raksha Bandhan
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- Expected Jul 9, 2024
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- $10.99
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Publisher Description
Celebrate Raksha Bandhan in a totally new way! Little Raashi is ready to update this popular South Asian festival with her idea that both boys and girls get to trade rakhi bracelets.
Raksha Bandhan is Raashi’s favorite festival! Every year, her family comes together to dance, eat, and celebrate! Most importantly, siblings give out rakhis—beautiful handmade bracelets meant to provide protection in all of their advetures.
But rakhis are traditionally only given to boys! Raashi doesn’t like that. . . . Why don’t girls receive rakhis too? Why do some people think that only boys go out into the world? Now it's up to Raashi to inspire the change she imagines.
Sheetal Sheth, award-winning actress and author of the Anjali series, delivers another empowering story of a young girl bold enough to start her own traditions and blaze a trail toward inclusivity.
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A resourceful protagonist expands a gendered ritual in this straightforward picture book. Raksha Bandhan, a festival about honoring families, is a favorite of bespectacled Raashi. But when her younger brother Tejas insists Raashi adhere to the holiday's gendered guidelines, she questions Mama's explanation: that traditionally, sisters tied rakhis—bracelets symbolizing protection—on to their brothers, because it once wasn't thought that girls should do as much as boys. Raashi, whose big dreams include piloting planes, coaching a baseball team, and being president, wonders "if the idea was to protect the people you loved, why didn't the girls get rakhis, too?" Traditionalists may balk at Sheth's reinterpretation of a beloved Hindu ritual, but the direct narrative provides opportunity for a more inclusive celebration. Soto's digital palette of gold, green, and pink portrays wide-eyed characters in domestic scenes. All characters cue as South Asian. Ages 4–8.