A Contest!

   My critique partner and good friend, Toni Buzzeo, has a brand-new, beautiful Christmas book, Lighthouse Christmas.  On Saturday she was the guest of honor at the Damariscotta Holiday Parade. She did a signing with Maine Coast Bookshop and a reading at the library. . . but they also asked her if she'd be in the parade with SANTA!

I've had lots of great events, but I've never driven to an event with Santa!  So I went to take some photos for Toni. 

  Here comes the parade, but where is Toni?

  There she is! 

This is the lobby of the library with all the kids waiting to talk to Santa. 



I took a few photos of the children from the back. My kids are 21 and 19, so it's been a long time since they were this size. 

  

Some of the children were shy, but not the little girl in pink. She threw her arms right around him, nearly knocking Santa's hat off! 

  

This little girl came prepared with a LIST.

Toni read her beautiful story and every time the one-eared cat appeared in the story, Toni and the entire audience meowed along with the puppet. 

   It was a lovely little touch that allowed even the smallest children to participate with the story. 

I bought a signed copy of Lighthouse Christmas to use a contest prize. 

  To enter, all you need to do is leave a comment to this post or on Facebook before midnight Friday, December 2nd, and I will enter you in the contest.  I'll draw a name randomly on Saturday, December 3rd.