Category Archive: Christmas

Christmas Gifts From The Kitchen

Make Christmas presents the old fashioned way, and save money in these tough economic times.

Golden Rudolph, Expert Santa

I haven’t posted about nearly as many Christmas books this year as I did last,  though I have three excellent ones for you today.  One year Santa Claus finds that all of his… Read More

Merry Christmas, Curious George

Fans of the curious little money who lives with the never named Man With The Yellow Hat and whose curiosity inevitably leads him on all sorts of adventures  will undoubtedly love Merry Christmas,… Read More

Do NOT Adjust Your Computer's Calendar!

Yes, I know that we are fully half a year away from Independence Day when a book celebrating the United States flag might be most appropriate, but I came across this lavishly illustrated,… Read More

Twelve Books For Christmas

Merry Christmas!   Today on Christmas Eve I feature the twelfth and final of my Twelve Books For Christmas.   Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is arguably the essential and true Christmas story in English.  … Read More

The Night Before Christmas

In examining the copy right page on this book,  I confirmed that the original poem by Clement C. Moore is in the public domain and so decided to present in it’s entirety Moore’s… Read More

Librarian's Night Before Christmas

Today’s post is for my blog friends who also work in libraries.   Twas’ the night before Christmas and an over-worked, under-budgeted librarian is working late into the night to mend her battered and… Read More

Christmas In The Trenches

Today’s Christmas book is a bit unusual.  It includes a history lesson. Christmas In The Trenches by John McCutcheon with illustrations by Henri Sorensen (who was also the illustrator for The Old Shepard’s… Read More

Christmas USA

Just in case you are counting, today is my seventh of twelve Christmas book posts.   I have already picked out the remaining five books and am set to post one per day,  concluding… Read More

A Peanuts Christmas

Sometimes the holiday season makes me feel old.   Recently my friend techfun pointed out how the advent of hundreds of channels and Tivo have retired what used to be annual cultural touchstones we… Read More

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