Ok, just can’t resist doing a few more Christmas books. These are some unique ones I’m partial to. Winter Lights: A Season in Poems & Quilts (by Anna Grossnickle Hines. Greenwillow, 2005). Stunning contemporary quilts illustrate this book, most of them in intense, vivid colors and bold patterns that really appeal to kids and adults alike. Like the title says, each poem and quilt celebrates winter light: sun sparkling on icicles, Christmas lights, aurora...
One of our favorite Christmas traditions (and my favorite one—fun AND easy) is our basket of Christmas picture books. A giant basket loaded with Christmas picture books sits right next to the tree. The books get packed away with the ornaments and decorations and only come out at Christmas. And they only come out after the kids have decorated the tree. Otherwise, they drop everything and plop down on the couches to read (I...
Originally, this post was going to be about favorite Christmas books (I’ll get to that in a few days), but I have to write about a great book we just discovered: Adventures of Cow Too (Tricycle Press, 2007). Written by Cow (as told to Lori Korchek) and illustrated with photos by Marshall Taylor, this book is the sequel to Adventures of Cow. In Adventures of Cow Too, we follow a small plastic toy...
Lemony Snicket’s picture book, The Lump of Coal (HarperCollins, 2008), has been released for Christmas. Christmas is a time of miracles, and as Lemony Snicket says, “Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you’d see.” (The book is worth buying for that sentence alone.) Although not quite as dire as Lemony Snicket’s best-selling Series of Unfortunate Events (it is Christmas after all), The Lump...
