How to Have a Perfect Christmas: Practical and Inspirational Advice to Simplify Your Holiday Season

by Helen Isolde

While Martha Stewart would have readers believe that they can build three-story gingerbread houses and pluck their own turkeys, How to Have a Perfect Christmas offers a wonderful, practical collection of inspiring holiday tips that help readers rediscover the true charms and pleasures of the season. Line illustrations.

Genres: Christmas, Nonfiction

92 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1996

About the author

Helen Isolde Thomas, MA, is a free-lance writer, author and Grants Writer Emerita from the State University of New York at Geneseo. She is also a former middle school English teacher, Administrator of the Strong Memorial Hospital Pain Clinic, and Area Personnel Director for Service Systems Corporation. She has lived in both England and the United States and traveled widely elsewhere. She currently lives with her three cats and one very large goldfish in New York’s Finger Lakes Region.
In addition to her first book, How to Have a Perfect Christmas: Practical and Inspirational Advice to Simplify Your Holiday Season (Dutton, 1996), she has written for an eclectic collection of print and electronic venues including; newsletters too numerous to mention, Life in The Finger Lakes magazine, Green Prints: The Weeder’s Digest, livinglutheran.com, The Well-Being Journal, Lutheran Forum, and in the books, Reviving Ophelia, and An Encyclopedia of Broadway and Culture, as well as on several editorial pages.

Reviews

[Vicki · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ripoff!

[Angel · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nice little collection of Christmas advice and tips. Mostly little simple reminders that in the end let you know it is ok to really enjoy the holiday and not worry so much about the material stuff. I think we should share this book more with more people around the holidays.

[Abraham Ray · Rating 5 out of 5]

nice book of things you can do for other people for Christmas!