Christmas Gifts From The Kitchen
Make Christmas presents the old fashioned way, and save money in these tough economic times.
Make Christmas presents the old fashioned way, and save money in these tough economic times.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Just in case you are keeping count, this is the fourth of my Twelve Books For Christmas. While Christmas dinner is not quite the classic high-stakes, high-stress meal Thanksgiving so often is, the… Read More
Last week I got called in to work a shift at Sumner Library. I had worked at that branch once before and they had been very nice to me so when they… Read More