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Cute children's book about various 祭り from about 50 countries from around the world, including countries from every continent. The selections were a bit of an odd mix, including both traditional, world-famous, and country-wide 祭り like Holi (India) or Day of the Dead (Mexico), and also much newer, less famous, and regional 祭り like the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta (USA) or the MassKara Festival (the Philippines). I did enjoy learning about lots of different celebrations, though - I'd love to see many of them in person - and the illustrations are in an interesting style, so I also enjoyed taking my time to look at the pictures. One bonus point for me was that there is no whitewashing in the illustrations for countries where people tend to have darker skin.
This is a children's book for slightly older kids, so most of the vocabulary is in kanji with furigana on all words, with only harder kanji dropped for hiragana. A lot of the words are fairly common and useful, with only a handful of rarer words for cultural items (e.g. stilts, lanterns) that might be unfamiliar; most of those words are repeated across various descriptions. A handful of geographical words pop up in the country descriptions as well. There is a faux handwriting font in use to point out details around the illustrations, but it's easy to read and shouldn't present a problem. Because each country only gets one page, it's very easy to pick up and put down.