Christmas Books

This book is wonderful. I have put it away for my great grandson
and also donated one to Church Library. I am so pleased.

I heard this book for the first time today. My class was spellbound. The familiar rhyme was brought to life in the most beautiful story ever told. I will be ordering this book to have for future students.

Heise has found a way to retell the Christmas story in a familiar patterned verse, in terms that young Children will understand and enjoy, but that will delight all. Illustrations are bright and coorespond well with the verse. My children loved it.

Every year my family goes to the bookstore and selects a book to add to our Christmas Book collection. This year we all agreed that Two Christmas Mice was the one. We loved the illustrations! My little brother doesn't read yet, but he is really good at telling the story using the pictures. I think your family will enjoy this book as much as mine does!

This is a really cool Christmas book. I love how the pictures make the story come to life. Everyone should read this book about friendship and sharing the Christmas spirit!

My daughter and I came across The Christmas Mice at the bookstore and were attracted by its merry cover. We sat right down and read it together and immediately bought a copy for her and three for my daughters's best friends. We loved how these two snowbound mice find ways to entertain themselves and we were charmed with the way they find each other and become friends. The story is full of imagination and smiles -- a delight.

I was very pleased to receive this book. The condition of this book was excellant. I was also very impressed at how fast I received the book. I had it in less than two weeks.
The projects in this book have very easy to follow instructions and I'm sure I will have hours of fun making the different projects.

This book has terrific directions..excellent pictures. So many projects to choose from. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to do hand quilting . these projects were so much fun and gave me a great sense of accomplishment.

Some quilting books are a disappointment and don't deliver the content you expect from the cover, but "Two-Hour Quilted Christmas Projects" is terrific. The items are easy and refreshing. The patterns and directions are complete. This book delivers more than I expected. Although the hardcover price was hard to accept I think I will get my money's worth because I will actually make several of the projects in the book.

The crafts projects in this book are classy -- no "loving hands at home" look here. I would make 90% if I had the time.

The crafts projects in this book are classy -- no "loving hands at home" look here. I would make 90% if I had the time.

Wonderful book for beginning crafty people. Excellent illustrations and color photographs. No "way -out" material that you can't purchase in any crafts store. Projects range from making your own wrapping paper,boxes. cards and tags to elegant place settings and Christmas tree decorations. In addition to crafts the book has several easy to make holiday feast recipies. Everyone I know who is crafty loves this book!!

We got this book for my soon to be two year old son at Christmastime, it's now February and he wants it read to him every night and even sleeps with it! I would highly recommend it, especially to help your young child get used to Santa.

I bought this book as a special treat for potty training and boy, did it work! The story is so very cute and really helps with introducing the different celebrations of Christmas throughout the world. It's nice that there's someone out there finally caring about the quality of books and videos that children are seeing and reading, and the Wiggles are simply the best, in my opinion. Thanks so much Wiggles for providing such educational, fun, and enjoying items!

My own reason why I think that The Wiggles: A Very Wiggly Christms is just like the DVD, Yule Be Wiggling, is because Santa Claus, needed help from The Wiggles. Since one of Santa's reindeer was sick and couldn't pull the slaigh, The Big Red Car was The Wiggles only hope-and delivering presents to children from around the world worked so magically well.
All I have to say now is that today, I've already read this new book. I'll wish The Wiggles my very own Wiggly Christmas to them, in December.

This is a beautifully written book with wonderful art work. I am going to give it to one of my great nieces for Christmas next year. It would be good for Sunday School teachers to read also to their class.

This is such an endearing story for little ones. Wonderful, colorful pictures.

I love this book! It is a great way to ground kids into the fact that Christmas is not all about gifts. It is from a Christian perspective but goes beyond the story of Christ's birth and exemplifies christian living.

Great story...tears, laughter, death and life goes on...wow what a gift to find in a box on your neighbors or friend porch!!!
From highs to lows it's a great read. Get it...Give it!!

This is a very special story that first appeared as an extended piece in the Grand Island Independent, where George is a regular columnist. This gentleman is a gifted wordsmith and story teller. Warm, for Christmas is a highly recommended read not only for the holiday season, but throughout the year. It would be a wonderful gift for a family member or friends. His highly personal style of writing brings the characters and story alive for the reader. This book is an opportunity for the world to share what the people of Grand Island and Central Nebraska have known for years - George Ayoub is a very special writer and one of those hidden treasures that we discover and cherish for years to come. Catch his special insights on events and people by visiting the Grand Island Independent Website and reading his columns.

I was hooked on this book by the end of the first paragraph. George Ayoub has created wonderful characters you really care about by the end of this story, especially Pachy, the eleven-year-old narrator.
Mourning the loss of his mother, Pachy is coming to grips with his own pain while watching his family crumble before his eyes. As the youngest member of his family, Pachy receives no comfort from his emotionally distant father or his troubled siblings - all of whom are struggling with their own grief. With the help of a caring school psychiatrist and some unseen powerful forces at work, Pachy begins to work through the chaos.
Young readers will strongly identify with Pachy, but adults will feel the pull, too. Ayoub has a marvelous voice that speaks to all of us. Pachy's flashbacks of his mother are especially vivid. When an eight-year-old Pachy crawls into his dying mother's bed to be comforted, I dare you not to cry. Those lump-in-the-throat moments are all over this book, so have plenty of kleenex handy!
How Pachy comes to terms with his mother's death and with his struggling family makes for a beautiful ending - one which Ayoub refuses to sugar coat. In his own rare style, Ayoub has created an ending that is both realistic and wondrous at the same time. Days after I'd finished the book, Pachy was still with me. These characters seemed to come to life through Ayoub's pen. It was a wonderful and satisfying story - especially at Christmas time!
I'm hoping that George Ayoub creates a sequel and brings these characters into our lives again!

Cathy Howard
Grand Island, NE

"Welcome Home for the Holidays" is another fantastic addition to the "Gooseberry Patch" series of books. This book is full of fantastic cooking tips, fun traditions and holiday memories for everyone.

Learn how to cook Indian Tea, Corn Chowder, Fragrant Holiday Ornaments and Pizza Fondue! (Not Necessarily altogether, (Grin)).

"Welcome Home for the Holidays" has a large collection of reader memories and stories, and is chock full of suggestions on how to make excellent meals while also celebrating the wonders of the seasons: Autumn and Winter.

This is a definite must for Gooseberry Patch Collectors everywhere!

O.K. y'all, this book is filled with all sorts of cozy country holiday ideas. It is a must for anyone who loves the holidays, buy it now and plan for the best holiday season ever!!! Great ideas from harvest to Christmas!!

The many wonderful recipes and decorating ideas in this book have become tradition in our home over the past few years. My children (and even their friends) never let me forget 'Dinner in a Pumpkin'. I have also given this book as a gift several times to my children's teachers. This is a "must have" for those of you like me who love the times between Halloween and Christmas.

This is a quirky, erudite little book that is sitting on my bedstand right now. Last night I read several entries, from Professor Walsh's haunting account of the Christmas Eve truce among German and British soldiers during World War I, to his witty response to the question "Why is Mistletoe so potent?"
There is clearly a lot of scholarship behind this book, but it is manifested with light grace. I read it with enjoyment, yet in a couple of years, so will my child. It's just a very compact volume, full of surprising and illuminating detail. I'd like to thank the professor for writing it.

This beautifully illustrated Christmas book provides straightforward answers to all kinds of Christmas questions--from the one on the cover (short answer: they were astrologers, something like wise men) to questions and answers about dubious Christmas marketing practices and the latest controversy about who wrote "T'was the Night Before Christmas." Not a religious book or a book for specialists, Were They Wise Men or Kings? dispenses information wittily in a format that encourages browsing as well as cover-to-cover reading. This would make a great Christmas present for someone who deserves more than a card but is difficult to please.

I have never before written a review, but I like this book so much I have abandoned (temporarily) my usual laziness. When I was younger, I loved the Christmas season, but I have grown tired of the emphasis on getting presents, especially for our children. This book reminds me why I used to enjoy Christmas.
The book communicates the Christmas spirit -- the religious and the secular (both of which I love). While I want my children (and me) to think about the meaning of the first Christmas, I also want them to enjoy the spirit of Santa Claus and George Bailey. In bite-sized chapters organized by questions and answers, the author tells the many stories associated with Christmas. To give a few samples, "Why does Santa come down the chimney?" "Have modern astronomers identified the Star of Bethlehem?" "When was Jesus born?" "Was Ebenezer Scrooge based on anyone in particular" "Where did the idea for the movie "It's a Wonderful Life" come from?
In my house, I have seen each of the five of us reading the book -- from the ten-year old who still believes in Santa to the fifty-year old Scrooge. I am grateful to the author for helping to bring the spirit of Christmas into our home.

This is a small book but it is just jam packed with great information in an easy to understand format. Every new author or publisher will benefit from this book, I took many pages of notes while going through and marked many pages to go back to. You will not be disappointed.

This book actually does what so many promise but do not deliver; it is a comprehensive guide that addresses all of the many micro & macro issues, as well a the publishing industry's subtle nuances. It covers the entire gamut from I'd like to write a book. What should I do? To, I've written a book. What should I do?

Everything is here. The book provides a thorough description of the traditional avenues, to the changing preset, and provides an excellent perspective of the evolving future.

You've got questions? This book has almost all of the answers. I say almost, because while the publishing industry's future is evolving very quickly, several trends have already emerged. Because of the author's thoroughness, I assume this will be addressed in a later edition. But don't wait. This is an excellent treatise that guides you from concept to sales and everything in between.

Joan Phelps' background is in public relations and speech writing. Janice Phelps is the founder and editor-in-chief of Lucky Press (a mid-size publisher of titles on health, aviation, history, and self-help) and has worked on more than 150 books for the trade market, two of which won the Ben Franklin Award for independent publishing. Together, Janice and Joan Phelps draw upon their years of practical experience and personal expertise to present an effective "how to" guide for self-published authors and novice small press publishers seeking to successfully compete in the marketplace for the dollars of the reading public. Wham! Bam! Publishing: The Strategic Marketing Plan For Authors And Publishers offers is a variety of proven business techniques and resource lists applied to the business aspects of publishing (including the Midwest Book Review website). An ideal and highly recommended instructive introduction for those with no previous business or marketing experience, Wham! Bam! Publishing will walk the reader carefully through the business mission, vision, objectives, and strategies. Of special note are the chapters on book design, titling, and advice when dealing with writers. The invaluable appendices include: "Author's Marketing Input"; "Additional Business Tips for Authors"; "P.O.D. Publishing"; "A New Option for Childrens Books"; and a "How to Make A Book Checklist".