Shalvit Kids TV Magazine — Issue 39: Festivals of Nigeria

**Four invitations. Four celebrations. One whole year of being the world's best guests!** 🥁

Welcome to **Issue 39 of the Shalvit Kids TV Magazine** — a giant **135-page** month of stories, songs and smiles, all about the **FESTIVALS OF NIGERIA!** Kiki, Bibo, Lulu and Pip are invited guests at a fishing festival, a carnival of drums, a harvest thanksgiving and a wedding with aso-ebi colours — and at every one they do the four Good-Guest Moves: **watch kindly, clap, eat what is offered, and thank the hosts.** Bibo hears the dùndún talking drum call the whole street to cultural day and learns that festivals need helpers — and every helper matters. At Grandma's table, the cast hear the story of the Special Supper Jesus shared with His friends. Add a 12-month celebration calendar, a calendar wheel to keep, festival bunting to make, and tiny tasting spoons to try — it is the print twin of the Shalvit Kids TV channel, built to the standard of the world's best children's magazines, with more pages than all of them.

🎉 **What's inside (135 pages!):**

- **The Year of Parties** — a 26-page book-length hero story: a calendar journey as invited guests at four Nigerian celebrations — a fishing festival, a masquerade-free cultural carnival of drums, a harvest thanksgiving echoing the New Yam (Iri Ji) celebration at bigger scale, and a wedding with aso-ebi guest colours. The cast only ever watch, clap, eat what is offered and thank — a respectful good-guest model in every scene

- **Bibo and the Talking Drum Invitation** — an 18-page second story expanding Issue 18's drum world: the dùndún "calls" the street (it copies Yoruba tones, and squeezing bends its pitch — big drum LOW, small drum HIGHER), and Bibo discovers that festivals need helpers: chairs, water, welcomers — every helper matters

- **Bible Story Time: The Special Supper (Luke 22)** — the special meal Jesus shared with His friends before Easter: bread broken and shared, "remember Me" — told as a table of love, with the cast as presenters at Grandma's table

- **Feelings Corner: Feeling Welcome at Others' Celebrations** — how to be a good guest, how to thank hosts in their own words, and why shy, quiet watching is perfectly fine

- **Sing With Us** — "Good Guests Clap Along" with full lyrics and actions, the "Dùndún Calls" action rhyme, and a thank-you song

- **Learning Lab: The Celebration Calendar** — all 12 months in order with their famous beats (Children's Day May 27, Independence Day October 1, Christmas in December, New Yam in the harvest months, Easter in spring — "comes around this time", never a fixed date), festival words (drum, dance, feast, thanksgiving), and **Kiki Asks Why?** *"Why do people celebrate with food?"* — because sharing food is how humans say "you belong"

- **Count & Find** — the carnival scene: count exactly **9 drummers** and **7 dancers' fans** (every count drawn, numbered and code-verified), plus bunting flags, harvest yams and rainbow-order wedding balloons

- **Puzzle Pages** — two solver-verified mazes, spot-the-difference, patterns, shadows, dot-to-dot, a months-in-order puzzle and the Big Quiz of the Issue — **with a full answer key at the back**

- **Jokes & Giggles** — clean toddler festival jokes plus a *That's Silly!* spot-what's-wrong page

- **Colour & Create** — 4 colouring pages, **2 colour-by-number pages** and 2 draw-it-yourself pages, including the **Special: My Celebration Calendar Wheel** — 12 segments, January to December

- **Make It** — **festival bunting** in green-white-green plus one guest colour, step by step, with cutting clearly marked as a **grown-up step**

- **Yummy Corner** — **festival tasting spoons**: tiny tastes of cold celebration foods under the full kitchen-safety lock (hands washed first, grown-up prepares, "no thank you" always allowed)

- **Our Nigeria** — **Argungu, Eyo & the Durbar Preview**: the great fishing festival in Kebbi, Lagos's white-clad Eyo day, and a first look at the northern horse festival — whose full feature stars in Issue 49!

- **Parent Pages + Full Answer Key** — what your child learned, how to use the issue together, the good-guest rule explained for parents, and every answer, cross-checked

🎓 **What your child will learn:**

- 🎈 The four Good-Guest Moves — watch kindly, clap, eat what is offered, thank the hosts — and respect for how other communities celebrate

- 🗓️ The 12 months in order, with Nigeria's special days: Children's Day (May 27), Independence Day (October 1), Christmas, New Yam — and why Easter "comes around this time" in spring

- 🔢 Counting with exact, numbered, verified quantities — 9 drummers, 7 fans, 12 flags, 8 yams, 7 rainbow balloons

- 🥁 True drum science from our music world: the talking drum copies Yoruba tones; big drums sing low, small drums sing higher

- 🧼 Kitchen safety for life — handwashing first, grown-ups prepare, children taste cold food only

- 📖 A gentle Bible story with a one-line lesson that lasts: *"This is My special supper — remember Me"*

- 🇳🇬 Pride in Nigeria's festivals — Argungu's fishing, Eyo's white-clad Lagos day, and the Durbar horses still to come

📖 **Issue details:**

- **135 pages** of glossy, colourful artwork featuring the much-loved Shalvit Kids TV cast — Kiki, Bibo, Lulu and Pip

- Ages **2–6** — toddlers, preschool and nursery; made for reading aloud together

- **PDF — instant download** after payment; read on any phone, tablet or computer, or print the colouring, puzzle and craft pages at home

- Issue 39 of the **Shalvit Kids TV Magazine** — collect the whole library, from *Count With Kiki!* to *Journey Through Nigeria* (Issue 40)!

**Perfect for:** Nigerian culture and festival themes, preschool and nursery classes, Sunday school, family celebrations, and every little learner who loves a party.

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