Once a Year: Some Traditional British Customs was first published in 1977 establishing Homer Sykes as one of the UK's leading young photographers. Over a period

Combines the author's retelling of two old and familiar Christmas legends: the flowering forest and the barn animals talking at midnight.

Booboolina's peculiar compromise in practicing her witchcraft gives the town a unique holiday.

Ike wants night-time blue for his once-a-year suit, but when Mama takes him and thirteen neighborhood boys shopping, he figures the chances of getting it are sl

It is carnival in south-western Germany: On the streets of Endingen and Sachsenheim, Kissleg and Singen, Wilfingen and Triberg, the elaborate and lavish costume