More Carols Pop-Up Book

  Well one year later here I am!  I can’t believe i haven’t blogged for all of 2017. I must do better next year!  This Christmas carol pop-up book os so cool. I love these illustrations by the Johnstones.  Click on the tabs on the side of the blog for more Johnstones illustrations and books by Deans publishing.  I picked up this book for a quarter!  Sometimes I find books that are a treasure to me at used book sales.     Happy holidays to everyone and a happy 2018!  I am looking forward to time with family and friends, special music at church for Christmas Eve, and driving to look at special Christmas light displays.      

The First Noel

 

 

I love the cool illustrations in this Golden Book illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen.  They were a husband and wife team that illustrated around 40 books together.  The First Noel was published in 1959.     I'm mooooostly ready for Christmas, how about you?  We have SO much snow compared to last year.  I'm looking forward to the Christmas Eve service at our church.  They always have cool crafts and yummy snacks out for the kids, and I always love the music.  During the holidays I'm hoping to take my older 2 girls to a couple movies and to do lots of visiting with family and friends.  Happy holidays everyone!

The Shiniest Star

I found this adorable Christmas book from 1950 at our local recycling and used items centre.  Little angels Pigtails, Crewcut, and Touslehead argue over who has polished his or her star the shiniest.  Touslehead has given up hope of his star ever shining until he realizes that it is the Christmas Star that has helped the Wise Men find baby Jesus.  There is even a children's musical based on this book.  Christmas is coming quickly and my 3 little girls are looking forward to it.  Although I think they would like for there to be snow, which we have only had a dusting of so far.  My 9 year old has a small solo part in her children's choir performance this weekend so we are looking forward to that.  

ABC is for Christmas

How is everyone's Christmas holidays going?  I just love the gorgeous illustrations in this Little Golden Book, ABC is for Christmas, written by Jane Werner Watson and illustrated  by Sally Augustiny.  

We had a nice Christmas Day in spite of my husband and 2 older daughters being quite sick with a bad cough and fever.  Now my husband is getting a bit better but now the baby has it.  Not good. 

We had a green Christmas this year, it's been a few years since that happened, and my 8 year old is disappointed that it doesn't look very Christmas-y outside.  At least we have electricity!  Last year's ice storm threw everyone in our area for a loop last year in the week leading up to Christmas.  At my house we were ok as we were only out of power for 13 hours.  But many people we know had it a lot worse!  

In the week coming up I am looking forward to more get-togethers with family and friends.  My husband has the week off work so I will have help with the kids all week, yay!  Thank goodness as it would have been hard to manage all these sick kids without his help!  See you in the New Year, everyone!

The Barbapapas' Christmas

 

 

 

I'm a little late for Christmas but I hope you'll still enjoy this one!  The Barbapapa books were written in the 1970's.  I totally remember watching the 5-minute cartoons on tv as a child.  As you have probably figured out by looking at the illustrations, the Barbapapa family can change their shape.  When they do so, they say 'Clickety-click, Barba-trick!'  Aaaah, memories.  :)  Check out the official Barbapapa website here.

Here's a clip of the Barbapapa Christmas special.

Amazing stuff on Pinterest, of course!



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So much  cool stuff, must stop now!!

The Night Before Christmas

 

 

 

 

 

 

A cute version of The Night Before Christmas for you, pictures by Corinne Malvern.

It's been a really nice Christmas season.  All the events leading up to Christmas are just as fun as Christmas Day itself.  We did things like:

Santa Claus parade

Christmas party for kids and visit with Santa (through my husband's work)

A few Christmas parties with friends and family

Singing Christmas carols with the guitar with my daughters

Making Christmas Nativity Scene story stones with my older daughter (see previous post)

Decorating cookies

Kids' Christmas party at church along with singing in the choir

-Didn't get to go to our daughter's school Open House or school skate like last year since she was sick!...

Putting up the Christmas tree and decorating the house

Driving around town to look at the Christmas lights and play a Christmas light/decoration scavenger hunt.

Reading Christmas-y books every night with my daughters.

Have a Merry Christmas, everyone.

Linking to The Children's Bookshelf

The Christmas Story

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Christmas Story, illustrated by Eloise Wilkin, has 2 different covers but the inside pages are the same, and I have both versions.  Coincidentally, I saw a post on My Little Bookcase about making 'story stones' using pictures from Little Golden Books.  Jackie had the exact same situation - she had 2 copies of the same book, so she decided to cut the pictures from one to make a nativity scene with story stones.  I didn't have a nativity scene either, so this was the perfect quick and easy craft for me! Just throw some Mod Podge glue on there and you're good to go!  I don't tend to make a lot of structured crafts with my daughter as she prefers to make up her own inventions with shoeboxes, ribbon, constuction paper, etc, but this was a great simple craft to do and we can use it every year to decorate at Christmas.