Book Covers to Color
We have coloring pages based on each of our books free to download from a link on the Freebies page of our website. Check them out here The Sled is a lovely Christmas one to start you off!
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. Here is a good one for Christmas! Hope you like them. Links will continue to appear in our newsletters. Follow the link here to try this one based on J. Craig and Christine B. William’s book, The Sled
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Children’s books for a good Christmas read!
Check them out on Bill’s Crimson Cloak Publishing page here where you will find links to them all on Amazon!
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The First Christmas Card
Have you written all your Christmas cards yet? No, neither have I. We all will be soon though won’t we, but why? Where and how did this tradition begin? The first Christmas card designed for sale was by London artist John Calcott Horsley and commissioned by Sir Henry Cole, a wealthy British businessman of the 1800’s, who found himself too busy in the festive season to send individual messages to all his friends. Yes, I know the feeling. Being a man who liked to be prepared therefore, in the summer of 1843 Sir Henry commissioned Horsley to design an impressive…
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Books for a good Christmas read!
Everyone loves some good books for Christmas! Check these out here on Denna’s Crimson Cloak Publishing page!
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Book Covers to Color
We have coloring pages based on each of our books free to download from a link on the Freebies page of our website. Check them out here Here is a Christmas one to start you off!
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Special Words for Christmas
Expensive gifts will not make the best Christmas. Good memories will last longer and mean so much more.
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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 first 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…
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The Origins of Thanksgiving
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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Happy Bonfire Night!
Bonfire Night is celebrated on 5th Nov each year. The date of the famous Gunpowder Plot coincides with the end of the English harvest season, traditionally marked with festivals. However you enjoy Bonfire Night, make sure all animals are safe and unafraid!
