Great books for kids to read at Christmas, or any other time!
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Books to enjoy at Christmas from Lynne North
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Christmas Origins
So, it is almost Christmas again, and time for the mad panic that it always causes as we rush around for cards and presents. That means it’s also time for my Christmas blog, all about the origins of the special day. The word ‘Christmas’ comes from the Old English term ‘Cristes Mæsse’, meaning the ‘Mass of Christ’. The story of Christmas, as we all know, begins with the birth of a baby in Bethlehem. Many believe that Christ was born on the 25th, although the exact month is unknown. December could well have been chosen so the Catholic Church could…
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New Release for Christmas!
Out now on Amazon worldwide. Christmas under Threat written by Lynne North and illustrated by Jack Foster. Wonderful book for kids with a lovely, humorous story and fantastic illustrations. Christmas is the most exciting and busiest time of the year. All the elves are hard at work making toys for Father Christmas, and Bodo the Chief Inventor Elf is desperately thinking up new ideas for this year’s special toys. He loves the work, but someone else isn’t quite so happy. Luka is jealous. He is sure he could invent much better toys than Bodo, so decides Bodo should be out…
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Thanksgiving 23rd November 2023
Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated on varied dates of the year in the United States and Canada celebrating the harvest and other blessings of the past year. Americans generally believe their Thanksgiving is modelled on a 1621 harvest feast shared by the English colonists (Pilgrims) of Plymouth and the Wampanoag people. The Pilgrims travelled from Europe to the New World, a continent they had never known before, in hopes of creating a community free to worship God away from the strict rules of their old government. For many hard months they journeyed across the Atlantic Ocean enduring vicious storms,…
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Jigsaws
Have you discovered the site ‘Jigsaw Planet’ yet? They provide free jigsaw puzzles for you to play online. You can change the difficulty of each puzzle by amending the number of pieces it uses. Crimson Cloak Publishing have jigsaw puzzles on this site based on our book covers. Hope you like them! Links will continue to appear in our newsletters. Follow the link here to try this one based on Bill Hunt’s Christmas book, Disturbances.
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Grandpa Explains the Snow by W.H. Matlack
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420 High Christmas by Gary Winstead.
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Origins of the Christmas Tree.
The use of greenery and lights at Christmas goes back to the celebration of the Kalends of January in ancient Rome. Kalends was a celebration of the Roman New Year when people gave each other gifts of green boughs, honey treats, lamps for light and warmth, and silver and gold objects (The latter probably being the most popular.) They also trimmed trees with trinkets and toys during Saturnalia, and put candles on them to indicate the sun’s return to earth. The Druids honoured Odin by tying golden apples and other offerings to tree branches, and set lighted candles on…
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The Sled
A lovely Christmas book by J. Craig Williams and Christine B. Williams.
