Every year, around the Winter Solstice, friends and family gather together to celebrate one of many winter holidays. Jewish people celebrate Hanukkah. For Pagans and Wiccans, this holiday time may be called Yule, or simply the Winter Solstice. Some African Americans celebrate Kwanzaa. Christians, however, celebrate this season as Christmas. ...
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Christmas morning is a time of chaos for most families. As soon as children open one thing, it’s discarded for another. If electronic games, building sets, frustrating directions and dolls that do everything but eat fattening foods have replaced train sets and cap guns, it might be time to introduce ...
Read More »Books Make Great Christmas Gifts for Girls: A Selection of Books That Girls Aged 5-11 Will Enjoy Receiving
Books are very good value for money when you consider the amount of lasting pleasure they bring. Here are some ideas for books for gifts for girls aged 5-12. Presents for Ages 5-6: Angelina Ballerina’s Pop-Up and Play Musical Theatre Angelina Ballerina’s Pop-Up and Play Musical Theatre will entrance little ...
Read More »Books are Great Christmas Gifts for Boys: Books That Younger Boys and Teens Will Enjoy Receiving
Books make wonderful gifts for boys. They develop the imagination and build reading skills. And the best books can be enjoyed for years. An Ideal Gift for 5-9 year olds: Captain Underpants The Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey is extremely popular with small boys. They are funny, easy to ...
Read More »Book Review–A Catered Christmas: Crawford’s Third Book in the Mystery with Recipes Series
The “Mystery with Recipes” is currently a four-part series of cozy mysteries written by food and travel writer I. Crawford. Throughout the series, readers have come to know the likeable main characters, sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons—amateur detectives, caterers, and owners of A Taste of Heaven, a bakery in a ...
Read More »Book Review – The Cajun Twelve Days of Christmas: Delightful Cookbook Offers Festive Louisiana Recipes, Illustrations
The idea for this cookbook came from the First Baptist Church of Houston, Texas and their Music Minister Gerald Ray. Their annual Christmas Pageant featured a choreographed version of “The Twelve Days of Christmas”, and some members of the First Baptist Church of Lafayette, Louisiana thought it would be fun ...
Read More »Book Review – The 12 Days of Christmas Cookbook by AWW
In the well-loved style that has made Australian Women’s Weekly cookbooks popular in homes around Australia, The 12 Days of Christmas (ACP Books, 2010) offers readers a range of easy to follow recipes with dishes suitable for enjoying meals with family and friends over the holiday season. The 12 Days ...
Read More »Best Mystery Books for Christmas: Holiday Gifts for Lovers of Crime, Mystery and Spy Stories.
For many people, Christmas wouldn’t be the same without a good book to settle down with next to a roaring fire, while the snow settles outside the window. Therefore books are the perfect Christmas present or stocking-filler. However, books are very personal, so it can be difficult to know which ...
Read More »A Literary Christmas-Gifts that Give Back: Stuck with What to Buy this Christmas? How about a Book?
Although it may seem daunting to get someone a book, worrying about whether they will like it, or might already have it, if you glance at their bookshelves or coffee table you will probably see some kind of pattern. Do you see lots of Nora Roberts, John Grisham, or celebrity ...
Read More »A Christmas Book for Older Adults to Read to Children of Any Age
The informal Christmas truce of 1914, complete with handshakes, songs, and even ball games, saw about 100,000 soldiers pausing the war to make and experience the magic of Christmas. All along the front little groups of soldiers singing of peace and shaking hands while in the middle of fighting World ...
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