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Children's Book Club

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Terrible Yellow Eyes
Am I the last one to hear of the blog Terrible Yellow Eyes?  Illustrator Cory Godbey says Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak has always been tremendously important to him.  He decided to contact many of his favorite artist in hopes to curate a collection of paintings as a tribute to [...:]

Irish KC Christmas Reading

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CHRISTMAS STORIES
  • It Could Happen to a Bishop: Drunken Christmas Story Part I
  • Drunken Christmas Story Part II
  • Drunken Christmas Story Part III
  • The Christmas Tree of Life
  • Goat Burning Season

CHristmas Poetry @ Santas Net

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Christmas Poetry



The Twenty-fourth of December – Author Unknown
Christmas Comes – English Traditional
Christmas – Mother Goose
Traditional
The Holly and the Ivy – Traditional
Green Grow'th the Holly – English, 16th century
At Christmas Time – English Traditional
Christmas Bells – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Bells – Old English Carol
And All the Angels – from an old Scottish carol
Christ is Born – Englsih, [...:]

My Book Reccommendation – The Thing Around Your Neck

 
Title: The Thing Around Your Neck
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Paperback: 300 pages
Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd (1 Oct 2009)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0007306210
ISBN-13: 978-0007306213
Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm
Product Description
From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Orange Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, come twelve dazzling stories in which she turns her penetrating eye on the ties [...:]

My Book Recommendation – The Road

Title: The Road
Author:  Cormac McCarthy
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Picador (1 Jun 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0330447548
ISBN-13: 978-0330447546
Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 2.2 cm
Product Description

A father and his son walk alone through burned America, heading through the ravaged landscape to the coast. This is the profoundly moving story of their journey. The Road boldly imagines a future [...:]

My Book Recommendation – Nine Dragons

Title: Nine Dragons
Author: Michael Connelly
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Orion (1 Oct 2009)
ISBN-10: 0752875876
ISBN-13: 978-0752875873
Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 15.4 x 3.6 cm
Product Description
The shooting of a Chinese liquor store owner in LA brings Harry Bosch back to the Rodney King riots and the moment a stranger gave a young cop sanctuary. Now the debt must be repaid, [...:]

Christmas Poetry

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That Midnight Hour
The Gift of God
Bethlehem and Calvary
To Mary
Wonder
Gloria in Excelsis Deo!
Mary Today
Wishing
The Three Kings
Mary of Christmas
The Shepherd Boy's Gift
Mary and the Magi
Manger Story
Madonna and Child
Cradle Song of Mary's Beloved
Mary Speaks
Let Us Go Over to Bethlehem
A Christmas Hymn
A Moment of Nativity
Christmas Carol (for Berna Hayden) [...:]

Christmas Poems

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Christmas Poetry







 



This part of Christmas Time is devoted to Christmas related poetry by past and contemporary poets. It also provides a facility for purchasing poetry books in the form of Christmas dedicated collections or works by individual poets and writers that celebrate the Christmas season. 





Your Christmas Poem

Christmas Poetry for Children
Christmas Poems
Featured Poem
Christmas Poetry Books
If you [...:]

My Book Recommendation – World Without End

Title: World Without End
Author:  Ken Follett
 
Paperback: 1200 pages
Publisher: Pan (2 Oct 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0330490702
ISBN-13: 978-0330490702
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 6 cm
Product Description

On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. They are a thief, a bully, a boy genius and a girl who [...:]

Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year

 Merry Christmas And A Happy New Year        
 From
Annette

To All My Readers and Friends