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Santa's Song: A playful holiday sing-along song for children of all ages
Children of all ages with have fun and giggle along as they discover a new way to sing the popular holiday tune "We Wish You A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year." Perfect each verse and then play along in letter combinations that will have everyone laughing out loud. Fun for parents at bedtime, or for teachers in the classroom. This silly song will create smiles and a jolly happy time for all.
32 pages, Hardcover
Published August 1, 2017
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About the author
Pamela Mccoll
12 books3 followers2012 Publisher- Grafton and Scratch Publishers. Title to be released Twas The Night Before Christmas. Edited by Santa Claus for the Benefit of Children of the 21st.Century .
As the publisher I was compelled to act on Santa's wish that the reference to smoking a pipe simply drop from the pages to protect young readers from nicotine use.
Publisher of 8 books.
www.smokefreechildrensbooks.com
www.twasthenightbeforechristmas.ca
www.booksthatfit.com
www.youcanstopsmokingnow.com
Pamela McColl
Biography
A children’s advocate and smoking cessation coach, Pamela McColl is releasing a smoke-free version of the classic Twas The Night Before Christmas.
She handles sales and marketing for Allen Carr North America, whose book, The Easy Way To Stop Smoking, is a best-seller with over 13 million copies sold worldwide. His program has helped influence millions of people to quit smoking, including Ellen DeGeneres, Ashton Kutcher, Anthony Hopkins, and Sir Richard Branson.
McColl also hosts an online peer group for smoking cessation through www.depressionrecoverygroup.com entitled “You Can Stop Smoking Now” and blogs through the associated website www.youcanstopsmokingnow.com. She has a special interest in maternity and smoking cessation and previously was a labor support doula and prenatal yoga instructor.
She works in collaboration with the University of California in San Francisco – Smoke-Free Movies
Campaign (www.smokefreemovies.com), helping to put pressure on the film industry to rid its movies of scenes connected to smoking. She also successfully contributed, with a letter-writing campaign, to the movement to convince Major League Baseball to remove smokeless tobacco from the game.
When she was 18 she fled her house, which was engulfed in flames as a result of her father falling asleep in bed with a lit cigarette. Though she had taken up smoking as a teen-ager, she quit over three decades ago.
She is the publisher of seven books, including Pacific Spirit: The Forest Reborn, which United States Senator Frank Murkowski, the chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, labeled as “one of the most important works on forest management” in recent years.
The Canadian has been featured in major media in her country, including Maclean’s magazine, CBC Radio, and National Canada AM-TV.
Her diverse career includes previous experience in publishing, as a health care worker with Canadian Mental Health and as labor support doula. Her early career was spent the field of costume design for film and theatre and she attended the National Theatre School in Montreal Quebec and worked at the Stratford Festival in Ontario and the CBC. The Vancouver resident earned a BA in History/Sociology attended Queen’s University, The University of Manitoba, and did postgraduate work in Theatre History at the University of Victoria, she returned to study as a mature student in the faculty of Women’s Studies at the University of British Columbia and holds certification in Peer Counseling. Most recently she has trained with the Legacy Maternity in Brief Tobacco Intervention.
McColl, age 54, has 23-year-old twin daughters (neither of whom smokes).
Pamela is a member of The Ewomen’s Network and Grafton and Scratch Publishing is a member of the
Independent Book Publishers Association of America.
For more information, please consult:
www.booksthatfit.com
www.youcanstopsmopkingnow.com
www.twasthenightbeforechristmas.ca
www.smokefreechildrensbooks.com
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@twas4kids
@pamelamccoll1
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Pamela McColl
As the publisher I was compelled to act on Santa's wish that the reference to smoking a pipe simply drop from the pages to protect young readers from nicotine use.
Publisher of 8 books.
www.smokefreechildrensbooks.com
www.twasthenightbeforechristmas.ca
www.booksthatfit.com
www.youcanstopsmokingnow.com
Pamela McColl
Biography
A children’s advocate and smoking cessation coach, Pamela McColl is releasing a smoke-free version of the classic Twas The Night Before Christmas.
She handles sales and marketing for Allen Carr North America, whose book, The Easy Way To Stop Smoking, is a best-seller with over 13 million copies sold worldwide. His program has helped influence millions of people to quit smoking, including Ellen DeGeneres, Ashton Kutcher, Anthony Hopkins, and Sir Richard Branson.
McColl also hosts an online peer group for smoking cessation through www.depressionrecoverygroup.com entitled “You Can Stop Smoking Now” and blogs through the associated website www.youcanstopsmokingnow.com. She has a special interest in maternity and smoking cessation and previously was a labor support doula and prenatal yoga instructor.
She works in collaboration with the University of California in San Francisco – Smoke-Free Movies
Campaign (www.smokefreemovies.com), helping to put pressure on the film industry to rid its movies of scenes connected to smoking. She also successfully contributed, with a letter-writing campaign, to the movement to convince Major League Baseball to remove smokeless tobacco from the game.
When she was 18 she fled her house, which was engulfed in flames as a result of her father falling asleep in bed with a lit cigarette. Though she had taken up smoking as a teen-ager, she quit over three decades ago.
She is the publisher of seven books, including Pacific Spirit: The Forest Reborn, which United States Senator Frank Murkowski, the chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, labeled as “one of the most important works on forest management” in recent years.
The Canadian has been featured in major media in her country, including Maclean’s magazine, CBC Radio, and National Canada AM-TV.
Her diverse career includes previous experience in publishing, as a health care worker with Canadian Mental Health and as labor support doula. Her early career was spent the field of costume design for film and theatre and she attended the National Theatre School in Montreal Quebec and worked at the Stratford Festival in Ontario and the CBC. The Vancouver resident earned a BA in History/Sociology attended Queen’s University, The University of Manitoba, and did postgraduate work in Theatre History at the University of Victoria, she returned to study as a mature student in the faculty of Women’s Studies at the University of British Columbia and holds certification in Peer Counseling. Most recently she has trained with the Legacy Maternity in Brief Tobacco Intervention.
McColl, age 54, has 23-year-old twin daughters (neither of whom smokes).
Pamela is a member of The Ewomen’s Network and Grafton and Scratch Publishing is a member of the
Independent Book Publishers Association of America.
For more information, please consult:
www.booksthatfit.com
www.youcanstopsmopkingnow.com
www.twasthenightbeforechristmas.ca
www.smokefreechildrensbooks.com
@twas4kids
@pamelamccoll1
@booksthatfit
Pamela McColl
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May 21, 2017
This was a bit of a disappointment, and perhaps a good example of 'don't judge a book by its cover' - or the section under which it's filed. Touted as a children's book, and with a fun, visually appealing cover, I was hoping for a cool Santa-inspired sing-aloud that my little one would love, or an illustrated song-like tale that was full of fun. Something like that.
Instead, this is basically a very simple twist on a well-known song, repeated over and over, with no illustrations and little to no visual appeal as you turn the pages. In fact, once you work out where it's going, there's no real need to keep turning the pages.
There's a charming introduction about caroling, the origins of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas", and some fun-filled 'facts' about Santa's elves and reindeer, but after that this book is just 20 pages of near-repetition. Although this could perhaps make for a fun sing-along with the family (if they were in the right mood), the whole thing could be summed up in a two-line note in a Buzzfeed-style listicle about 'adding fun twists to traditional Christmas carols', rather than 20 pages of book.
It just doesn't feel like a children's book at all (though the front and backcover illustrations are lovely). A missed opportunity, perhaps.
Instead, this is basically a very simple twist on a well-known song, repeated over and over, with no illustrations and little to no visual appeal as you turn the pages. In fact, once you work out where it's going, there's no real need to keep turning the pages.
There's a charming introduction about caroling, the origins of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas", and some fun-filled 'facts' about Santa's elves and reindeer, but after that this book is just 20 pages of near-repetition. Although this could perhaps make for a fun sing-along with the family (if they were in the right mood), the whole thing could be summed up in a two-line note in a Buzzfeed-style listicle about 'adding fun twists to traditional Christmas carols', rather than 20 pages of book.
It just doesn't feel like a children's book at all (though the front and backcover illustrations are lovely). A missed opportunity, perhaps.
May 19, 2017
With a short introduction to Carolling and the words to "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" this book starts off promising. The next pages rewrite the first verse of the song using various letters to begin each work. Yes, it could be silly and fun to sing with a group, but that is all there is to this book. There are no illustrations and it is really not very visually appealing. Not a book I would be recommending. The publisher generously provided me with a copy of this book via Netgalley.
May 18, 2017
Kids are going to love learning a new way to sing old songs and adults will enjoy boosting their holiday parties as they join together to add a new version to their musical selections.
McColl starts off with a cute story about the game and the ‘origin’ of the song variations. Then she goes into how to play with some recommendations. She even provides a little historical context for the Christmas songs and the act of caroling which might encourage more people to get in on the fun during the holiday season.
It’s definitely a fun and interesting way to teach/remember the alphabet J
My girls and I tried this out and we couldn’t get very far without them breaking down into laughter from the odd way it sounds at times.
McColl starts off with a cute story about the game and the ‘origin’ of the song variations. Then she goes into how to play with some recommendations. She even provides a little historical context for the Christmas songs and the act of caroling which might encourage more people to get in on the fun during the holiday season.
It’s definitely a fun and interesting way to teach/remember the alphabet J
My girls and I tried this out and we couldn’t get very far without them breaking down into laughter from the odd way it sounds at times.
July 13, 2017
Not that impressed with this one. All it does is change the first letter of all the song's words to each letter of the alphabet as it goes along. Really boring.
Guess it's true that you shouldn't judge a book by its' cover.
Guess it's true that you shouldn't judge a book by its' cover.
May 18, 2017
This ebook was provided by NetGalley for review (not the hardcover).
This is a really fun idea for young children who love to sing at Christmastime! Could really liven up schools and parties.
This is a really fun idea for young children who love to sing at Christmastime! Could really liven up schools and parties.
August 1, 2017
Title: Santa's Song - A playful holiday sing-along song for children of all ages
Author: Pamela McColl
Publisher: Grafton & Scratch Publishers
Published: 8-1-2017
Pages: 32
Genre: Children's Fiction
Sub-Genre: Holidays; Music; Poetry
ISBN: 9781927979235
Reviewed For NetGalley and Grafton & Scratch Publishers
Reviewer: DelAnne
Rating: 4 Stars
A fun silly book to share with young readers. Colorful illustrations and simple added text are appealing to adults and young readers. Sharing "Santa's Song" will laugh and smile. Whether a single voice or a group. The fun grows with the more who participate.
My rating of "Santa's Song - A playful holiday sing-along song for children of all ages" is 4 out of 5 stars.
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Author: Pamela McColl
Publisher: Grafton & Scratch Publishers
Published: 8-1-2017
Pages: 32
Genre: Children's Fiction
Sub-Genre: Holidays; Music; Poetry
ISBN: 9781927979235
Reviewed For NetGalley and Grafton & Scratch Publishers
Reviewer: DelAnne
Rating: 4 Stars
A fun silly book to share with young readers. Colorful illustrations and simple added text are appealing to adults and young readers. Sharing "Santa's Song" will laugh and smile. Whether a single voice or a group. The fun grows with the more who participate.
My rating of "Santa's Song - A playful holiday sing-along song for children of all ages" is 4 out of 5 stars.
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July 11, 2017
The cover is lovely, the idea is cute, singing a stanza or two may get you giggling, but it reminds me of trying the sing the Three Stooges B A Bay song, it gets old really fast. There are no pictures other than the cover, which may be ok as an e-book, but as a "picture book" for kids, it is bor-ing. Each page has a letter to begin that repetition of the song, and the lyrics with the letter of the page used in the lyrics. Think of the "I like to eat eat eat eeples and beeneenees", where each stanza changes with the featured letter. The song is silly, and is good for perhaps elementary school age kids who get the idea, and will sing it together and laugh. As a story time librarian, I would steer away from it, as it would get a little redundant. I wanted to like the book, the cover is lovely. The content, not so great.
May 24, 2017
Note: I was given the opportunity to read this book by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
I love the cover of this book, that's probably my favorite part. The idea behind it is really cute and as someone who is around children a lot, I can say this would probably be a very entertaining little game to them. I gave this 3 stars simply because while I love the idea and the interactiveness it brings, I wasn't really wowed by the concept/story. With that being said, this book would make for a cute startup tradition of a silly Christmas song to sing with your kids.
I love the cover of this book, that's probably my favorite part. The idea behind it is really cute and as someone who is around children a lot, I can say this would probably be a very entertaining little game to them. I gave this 3 stars simply because while I love the idea and the interactiveness it brings, I wasn't really wowed by the concept/story. With that being said, this book would make for a cute startup tradition of a silly Christmas song to sing with your kids.
May 29, 2017
This story starts out with a small introduction to the background of the song "We Wish You a Merry Christmas." It then proceeds to go on to tell the reader how to play the "Santa Song" game. While this is a cute idea, I wouldn't be fooled by the beautiful art on the cover into purchasing this book. I feel like the game is something you would find tagged to a Christmas board on Pinterest. Children may find it fun, I found it needless and senseless.
*I received this book as an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.*
*I received this book as an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.*
May 31, 2017
Not as fun as I thought it would be. The author has taken the song “We Wish You A Merry Christmas” and turned it into the Banana song. You know, Anna Anna Bo Banna. Each verse replaced the first first letter of the alphabet with a single letter so you get “Be Bish Bo A Berry Bhristmas…” So not only is the “song” kind of lazy, there are virtually no illustrations. The have some fancy lettering at the top of each page to represent the letter, but other than that, just black words on a white background. BORING! This book is a fail, and it failed hard!
September 14, 2017
I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
I was hoping that this book would have a fun song about Santa but instead, it has renditions of "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" using different letters from the alphabet, i.e. "Be bis bou a berry Bhristmas". If you're looking to have some fun with your little one, I guess this could be it but I'd rather have my little one sing the song correctly.
I was hoping that this book would have a fun song about Santa but instead, it has renditions of "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" using different letters from the alphabet, i.e. "Be bis bou a berry Bhristmas". If you're looking to have some fun with your little one, I guess this could be it but I'd rather have my little one sing the song correctly.
August 16, 2017
“Santa’s Song” had so much potential, but it ended up being super disappointing. All it consisted of was “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” done different ways. There weren’t even illustrations. It’s something you could figure out easily on your own or search for on the Internet.
May 22, 2017
Wasn't really a fan of this book, it was ok and I can see it being a firm favourite for some but I thought it was a bot confusing and it didn't really flow.
March 14, 2021
Santa's Song is a word-play of the Christmas classic "We Wish You A Merry Christmas." The idea is kind of fun for younger children as playing with words helps them develop language, but the execution is poor. "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" does not offer much in the way of lyrics when you switch up letters. There are no pictures and it is just pages of the same thing over and over again with 2/3 of the alphabet. The idea could have been improved with just a little extra effort on illustrations and perhaps limiting the examples to a handful, or trying it with a variety of Christmas music, and showing the reindeer, elves, and Santa singing the silly songs.
Note: I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley. I was not compensated in any other fashion for the review and the opinions reflected below are entirely my own. Special thanks to the publisher and author for providing the copy.
Note: I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley. I was not compensated in any other fashion for the review and the opinions reflected below are entirely my own. Special thanks to the publisher and author for providing the copy.
December 26, 2022
Note: I received a digital review copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley.
August 30, 2017
I got this book as an ARC reader and reviewer for Netgalley.
I got this book to review and read to my four year old as a bedtime story and it was not what I thought it was going to be.
I was disappointed with the book because it was just a quirky way of sing a Christmas song and not really a children's story. I hate giving this book a low star level, but it was a disappointment for me and my daughter.
I got this book to review and read to my four year old as a bedtime story and it was not what I thought it was going to be.
I was disappointed with the book because it was just a quirky way of sing a Christmas song and not really a children's story. I hate giving this book a low star level, but it was a disappointment for me and my daughter.
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