No comments about Lump o' Coal (Mega Mini Kit).

No comments about Star Wars Troopers Sticker Play Book to Color (Star Wars).

1 comments about P.B. Bear's Christmas.

1. P.B. Bear and his friends can't wait until Christmas. They want to guess what is in the packages and make a snowman. P.B. Bear even gets to help Santa deliver the presents.
   
   Written in words and pictures so your child can guess what the items are as you read the story. Your child will spend a lot of time looking at each page because the pictures and photographs are so vivid and detailed.
   
   One of my favorite P.B. books!
   
   ~The Rebecca Review

1 comments about How Spider Saved Santa Bug.

1. In this book, How Spider Saved Santa Bug, shows caring for other's well being. Santa Bug letters to all the bugs in Bug Country. Because of this, Spider and his friends go to the north pole to find out why. He is missing!

No comments about Hans Christian Andersen's The Fir Tree.

1 comments about Jingle the Christmas Clown.

1. Tomie De Paola's books never disappoint. This is no exception. As always, thought-provoking and delightful.

2 comments about A Christmas Tree in the White House.

1. This book was excellent for 4-8 year olds to personalize Christmas at their house and at the first family's house. It also introduced a real life president and how carrying out his duties affected his home life. My son saw this as his first 'history lesson' of sorts. As an extra bonus it just so happens that one of President Roosevelt's sons was named Quentin. My son will remember this fact because that's his name and my husband, his dad's name happens to be Theodore!



2. This is an interesting Christmas book for young children. The story is played against the backdrop of the Roosevelt White House (Teddy's), and an apparently true story involving the conservationist president's decision not to allow a cut tree into the White House because he want's to be a good example for Americans.

   Of course TR's notoriously rebellious brood tries to outfox their dad by secretly procuring a pine tree and stashing it away, decorated, in a bedroom closet. When discovered, TR marches the boys down to speak with Gifford Pinchot, his head of the US Forestry service. Pinchot says that sometimes cutting small trees can actually be beneficial to forests as it gives room for other trees to thrive and grow.

   With that OK, the live tree (although a small one in keeping with the chief of forestry's direction) is again welcome into the White House and is part of a festive christmas celebration.

   This story interests my children. Besides the Christmas hook, it involes the president and the White House, concepts they are familiar with. It also teaches a conservation lesson. Good book for the 4-7 set.

No comments about Charles Dickens' Christmas Ghost Stories.

No comments about Under the Kissletoe: Christmas Time Poems.

No comments about Star of Wonder.