Literary Themed Christmas Trees

Ahh the Festival of Trees!  Our favorite time of the year!!  Here in Salt Lake City, the Festival of Trees, is an annual event where individuals, groups, and organizations decorate and donate Christmas trees, wreaths, centerpieces, quilts, gingerbread houses and gift items.  Everything is auctioned off and every single penny (I literally [...]

The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck

Despite the fact that I have at least 20 books that will be overlapped into 2010 reviews, it just doesn’t make sense to review a Christmas book in January, so I wanted to squeeze one last 2009 review in.  I read The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck for my book club.  I liked it, I [...]

Who Was Born this Special Day? by Eve Bunting, Illustrated by Leonid Gore

Who Was Born This Special Day? by Eve Bunting and illustrated by Leonid Gore is a beautiful, soft nativity story.  Each manger animal is each asked in turn if they were born on this special night.  Was it you little lamb?  Was it you little goat? Was it you little calf?  Was it you little [...]

I’ve Seen Santa! by David Bedford, Illustrated by Tim Warnes

What a delightful book!  My only qualm about  I’ve Seen Santa! by David Bedford and illustrated by Tim Warnes is that one of the spreads was torn out in the library book that I borrowed  thus missing out on another great illustration.  This is one I would totally add to our home library.
Cute little Little [...]

I Love Christmas by Anna Walker

I Love Christmas by Anna Walker is an adorable picture book for the younger crowd with simple text and the most wonderful illustrations.  Ollie, our cute little main character loves Christmas and everything about it.  The crinkly paper, tinsel, string, baking cakes with his Nanna, stars in the sky, Santa, and sitting in bed on [...]