Hello Beautiful People, Our second book is the timeless classic – The Polar Express, by Chris Van Allsburg. If you haven’t read this beautiful tale, well, now’s the time to start! Late one Christmas Eve, after the town has gone to sleep, a young boy boards the mysterious train that waits for him outside his…
Hello Beautiful People! Happy December!!! In lieu of our Bookshelf Pick list, (the one that comes out on the first of every month), we are launching The 12 Days of Books campaign! We started this lovely tradition last year, and it was so well received that we thought, why not do it again? This year, we’re…
Hello You Beautiful People, It’s almost that time of year again… …ALMOST. What are we talking about? Well, Christmastime of course! But, more importantly….The 12 Days of Books. The 411 on The 12 Days of Books: Well, it’s our little Christmas Countdown + Literacy Initiative + celebrationofourfavoritetimeofyearandwanttoshareitwiththewhole world Series. We did it last year, and…
“[F]or it is good to be children sometimes and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.” I saved my favorite Christmas novel for the last day of books. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is perhaps one of the most recognizable Christmas stories in the Western World. Although I…
Hello Friends! Day 11 of The 12 Days of Books brings us another holiday suspense novel by mother-daughter team Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark. In Santa Cruise: A Holiday Mystery at Sea, readers meet Alvirah and Willy Meehan again (a reoccurring couple in the novels produced by the mother-daughter team). This Christmas, they…
Hello Readers, Welcome to Day Ten of The 12 Days of Books! An army of grumpy elves, two small Christmas angels, one invisible reindeer with a marzipan addiction and a whole lot of Christmas magic, that’s what you can expect from Cornelia Funke’s When Santa Fell to Earth. A magical Christmas story for children, this…
Hello Friends! Welcome to Day 9 of The 12 Days of Books. A Cedar Cove Christmas by Debbie Macomber is a modern re-telling of the nativity story . . . sort of. On Christmas Eve, a pregnant Mary Jo Wyse arrives in Cedar Cove looking for the father of her child (David Rhodes). She was under…
Hello! Welcome to Day 8 of The 12 Days of Books. As beautiful and wonderful as this time of year may be, it can often be overwhelming with office Christmas parties, secret Santa, shopping, decorating, baking, and family obligations. Personally, I find joy in the Christmas season, but some people find it stressful. In…
Hello Readers, Welcome to Day Seven of The 12 Days of Books! Today’s highlight is trip down memory lane for any girl who grew up in the 80s and 90s when the American Girl dolls hit the scene! The Pleasant Company’s original five girls: Felicity, Kirsten, Addy, Samantha, and Molly captured the hearts of young…
Hello Readers! Welcome to Day Six of The 12 Days of Books. The Bridge by Karen Kingsbury is a Christmas book for all of you bibliophiles. It is sweet, sappy, and involves saving a local bookstore. What could be more appealing? Molly Allen lives in Portland and Ryan Kelly lives in Nashville. The two used…