The Night Before Christmas in New England

The Night Before Christmas in New England PDF Author: Sue Carabine
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9781586854492
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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Book Description
This season brings three new titles to our successful line of "Night Before Christmas" books. Now, it's a snap to find a fun, affordable, holiday gift for friends and family in Idaho, Michigan, and New England. Brighten the holiday season with a personal touch for all your friends and relatives.

The Night Before Christmas in New England

The Night Before Christmas in New England PDF Author: Sue Carabine
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 9781586854492
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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Book Description
This season brings three new titles to our successful line of "Night Before Christmas" books. Now, it's a snap to find a fun, affordable, holiday gift for friends and family in Idaho, Michigan, and New England. Brighten the holiday season with a personal touch for all your friends and relatives.

Christmas in New England

Christmas in New England PDF Author: Amy Whorf McGuiggan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781889833989
Category : Christmas
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Christmas, as we celebrate it today, is a relatively recent invention. Our Puritan forefathers would not have thought of reveling in the birth of Christ-and frowned, or worse, on those who did. It was only in the nineteenth century, as the United States emerged as a nation, that so many of the traditions we take for granted as "Christmas" established themselves. So many originated in New England that, from sea to sea, American Christmas observances seem to smell of pine and fir, and even some in the South think of snow and sleighs when December 25 comes around. Christmas, writes McGuiggan, "is a cozy living room with a blazing fire, a piping mug of cider or hot chocolate and a plate of warm, spicy gingerbread boys and girls. It is woodlands of fragrant pine and an evening of crystalline air with a hint of wood smoke. It is the quaint, simple beauty of a town green and a white-steepled church aglow with candlelight. It is mittens and scarves, skating, sledding, and sleigh rides. And, most of all, it is snow." That, at least, is America's vision of a New England Christmas today. But how did all this come about? Here are some of the more than fifty holiday traditions traced and described in this fascinating treasury: Charles Follen and the Christmas Tree Church; Flying Santa; Silent Santa; Rudolph, the Most Famous Reindeer; A Magical Ride on the Polar Express; Louis Prang, Father of the American Christmas Card; Candlelight Strolls at Old Sturbridge Village and Strawbery Banke; A Norman Rockwell Christmas; and Captain James Magee's Holiday Party. Over 100 period illustrations, including a 16-page full-color insert, make this joyous book a family keepsake to be treasured by and forgenerations.

'Twas the Night Before Christmas in Massachusetts

'Twas the Night Before Christmas in Massachusetts PDF Author:
Publisher: Night Before Christmas in
ISBN: 9781728237787
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Book Description
A classic Christmas story featuring all the magic of Santa combined with the magic of your favorite city, state, or country. It's the night before Christmas and you're nestled snug in your bed. Your stocking is hung by the chimney with care--will Santa visit your house? Follow Santa's journey in this magical retelling of a Christmas classic starring the locations and landmarks that make the place where you live special!

'Twas the Night Before Christmas in Connecticut

'Twas the Night Before Christmas in Connecticut PDF Author:
Publisher: Night Before Christmas in
ISBN: 9781728237633
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Book Description
A classic Christmas story featuring all the magic of Santa combined with the magic of your favorite city, state, or country. It's the night before Christmas and you're nestled snug in your bed. Your stocking is hung by the chimney with care--will Santa visit your house? Follow Santa's journey in this magical retelling of a Christmas classic starring the locations and landmarks that make the place where you live special!

The Twelve Days of Christmas in New England

The Twelve Days of Christmas in New England PDF Author: Toni Buzzeo
Publisher: Twelve Days of Christmas in Am
ISBN: 9781454929963
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Grace writes a letter home each of the twelve days she spends exploring all six states in New England at Christmastime, as her cousin Camden shows her everything from lighthouses to dog sledding. Includes facts about New England.

Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas

Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas PDF Author: Tim Burton
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
ISBN: 1423192249
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Book Description
Celebrate 20 years of nightmares with this picturebook version of the classic film, written and drawn by Tim Burton and now featuring word-for-word narration by Christopher Lee! In this beloved picture book that could only come from the visionary mind of author and illustrator TIM BURTON, we meet Jack Skellington-- a well-intentioned inhabitant of Halloweenland. Jack is bored of ''''the scaring, the terror, the fright....tired of being something that goes bump in the night''''. And so, in an effort to bring to joy to his town, Jack kidnaps Santa and takes his place as the jolly old elf. But instead of bringing joy to the world Jack, who is a little more than a grinning skeleton, brings fear by delivering creepy toys and riding a sleigh carried by skeletal reindeer. Only through a number of things going horribly wrong does Jack learn the true meaning of Christmas.

A Visit from St. Nicholas

A Visit from St. Nicholas PDF Author: Clement Clarke Moore
Publisher: Boston : Atlantic monthly Press
ISBN:
Category : Children's poetry, American
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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Book Description
A poem about the visit that Santa Claus pays to the children of the world during the night before every Christmas.

Christmas

Christmas PDF Author: Bruce David Forbes
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520933729
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 198

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Book Description
Written for everyone who loves and is simultaneously driven crazy by the holiday season, Christmas: A Candid History provides an enlightening, entertaining perspective on how the annual Yuletide celebration got to be what it is today. In a fascinating, concise tour through history, the book tells the story of Christmas—from its pre-Christian roots, through the birth of Jesus, to the holiday's spread across Europe into the Americas and beyond, and to its mind-boggling transformation through modern consumerism. Packed with intriguing stories, based on research into myriad sources, full of insights, the book explores the historical origins of traditions including Santa, the reindeer, gift giving, the Christmas tree, Christmas songs and movies, and more. The book also offers some provocative ideas for reclaiming the joy and meaning of this beloved, yet often frustrating, season amid the pressures of our fast-paced consumer culture. DID YOU KNOW For three centuries Christians did not celebrate Christmas? Puritans in England and New England made Christmas observances illegal? St. Nicholas is an elf in the famous poem "The Night Before Christmas"? President Franklin Roosevelt changed the dateof Thanksgiving in order to lengthen the Christmas shopping season? Coca-Cola helped fashion Santa Claus's look in an advertising campaign?

A Connecticut Christmas

A Connecticut Christmas PDF Author: Caryn B. Davis
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493026062
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Book Description
Celebrate the Holiday Traditions of the Nutmeg State! A Connecticut Christmas is a photographic journey celebrating classic New England traditions, beauty, spirit, and community surrounding the holiday. From light displays to decorated churches and inns, spectacular private homes, festivals, carolers, town greens, and picturesque villages, this beautiful book of images and accompanying essays takes readers on a magical holiday tour through the Nutmeg State

'Twas the Night Before Christmas in Vermont

'Twas the Night Before Christmas in Vermont PDF Author:
Publisher: Night Before Christmas in
ISBN: 9781728238098
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Book Description
A classic Christmas story featuring all the magic of Santa combined with the magic of your favorite city, state, or country. It's the night before Christmas and you're nestled snug in your bed. Your stocking is hung by the chimney with care--will Santa visit your house? Follow Santa's journey in this magical retelling of a Christmas classic starring the locations and landmarks that make the place where you live special!