Download or read book When Santa was a Shaman written by Tony van Renterghem and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yes, there is a Santa Claus -- and this provocative book will tell you who he really is! Travel back in time to view Santa's pagan origins -- and his fascinating connections to the Horned Shaman, the Greek God Pan, the Norse god Wodan, and Robin Hood. Learn how we are influenced by this ancient myth everyday. Based on ten years of extensive research.

Download or read book Draw with Rob at Christmas written by Rob Biddulph and published by HarperCollins Children's Books. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merry Christmas! The internet phenomenon #DrawWithRob is now a fantastically festive art activity book for you to draw with Rob at home... The second book based on the viral videos seen everywhere on YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, TV, and more, from the creative genius and bestselling author Rob Biddulph! Christmas is different this year, with more families at home and wondering what to do! Pick up your pencils and join thousands of children around the world and #DrawWithRob - celebrating Christmas has never been so much fun! The first DRAW WITH ROB activity book went to Number One in the charts and was named 'Book of the Year' at the 2020 Sainsbury's Children's Book Awards! Now every family can share this fantastically festive new art activity book for Christmas. Join Rob and learn to draw your favourite Christmas characters - from Polar Bears to Elves and from Father Christmas to a Snowman, this perfect present is packed with arts, crafts and festive fun. The bestselling and award-winning author/illustrator Rob Biddulph is the genius behind the phenomenal, viral sensation that is DRAW WITH ROB and the accompanying activity book, and now the sensational DRAW WITH ROB AT CHRISTMAS - bringing joy to families everywhere with his easy to follow instructions and warm-hearted humour. So whether you're in home education, home-schooling, learning to draw or just having fun, let Rob show you that anyone can learn to #DrawWithRob! *WITH PERFORATED PAGES SO YOU CAN EASILY TEAR OUT AND DISPLAY YOUR ART!* Rob's original hit videos are also available at www.robbiddulph.com, and on Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram, with Rob appearing on TV to talk about them too. Perfect stay-at-home fun for boys, girls, and everyone aged three to one hundred and three, and a wonderful introduction to Rob Biddulph's bestselling picture book range - including the Waterstones Children's Book Prize-winning Blown Away, Odd Dog Out, and many more! Available in all good bookstores and online retailers, and perfect for children who are learning to read - or just love to!

Download or read book The Christmas Tree written by James Hewitt and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-09-07 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book's creation was done by chance. A group of my co-workers were discussing Christmas and why decorations, trees, and other customs are practiced. Have you ever wondered the same? One question was regarding the Christmas tree. Where did the idea originate? Whom might be responsible for the tradition? Was a person responsible for the tree or was it a cultural phenomena that grew. I am going to ask you to think back to your first memory of Christmas. It probably includes a memory of a decorated and brightly lit tree surrounded by colorfully wrapped presents. A smile always can be seen on even the most selfish and bitter person when viewing a well designed Christmas tree.

Download or read book Santa s Tree written by Janet Lawler and published by . This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the animals in the forest are excited about their Christmas tree, which they are decorating with nature's treasures, as well as a banner for a special midnight visitor--Santa Claus! This charming tale features seven pop-up spreads, as well as a holiday hide-and-seek: each of the five middle spreads highlights a letter, and readers can have fun finding animals and objects that have names that begin with that letter. On the page highlighting S, for sample, find a star, sled, snowman--and more!

Download or read book Latkes for Santa Claus written by Janie Emaus and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To: Santa From: Anna My new dad and stepbrother celebrate Christmas, so you’re coming to my house for the very first time. And I think you must be REALLY tired of cookies. I’m going to leave you the best Santa treat ever. Anna is excited that Santa will be visiting her house for the first time, and she wants to leave Santa a treat that blends the holidays her new family celebrates: Christmas and Hanukkah. She expresses this idea to her stepbrother, Michael, who insists that Santa doesn't need anything but his sugar cookies. Anna imagines Santa has to be bored with cookies by now and is determined to find a Jewish recipe that he'll enjoy. The catch? It has to be something easy for Santa to grab and go. It can't be matzo ball soup—soup in a sleigh with galloping reindeer will never do. It can't be noodle kugel—imagine that by the handful. What a mess! And as certain as Anna is that Santa would devour tzimmes, she knows he just doesn't have the time to sit and enjoy a hearty stew on Christmas Eve. Anna retreats to her thinking corner to figure out the perfect finger food for Santa, not wanting to disappoint him on his very first visit to her house. In this humorous and endearing picture book, blending both Christmas and Hannukah, a little girl and her stepbrother compete to leave Santa the best treats ever. Latkes for Santa Claus concludes with Anna and Michael's winning recipes, ready for children to replicate for Santa in their own kitchens.

Download or read book Upside down Christmas Tree written by Delilah Scott and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mr Willowby s Christmas Tree written by Robert Barry and published by Doubleday Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Give the gift of holiday spirit with this classic picture book that celebrates how one Christmas tree brings joy to a whole forest of critters! Christmas is here and Mr. Willowby's tree has arrived. There's just one big problem: The tree is too tall for his parlor! He cuts off the top so it will fit, and soon the top of that tree is passed along again and again to bring holiday cheer to all the animals in the forest. Kids will love watching the tree move from home to home, and families will appreciate the subtle message of conservation and recycling, as the tree top spreads joy to all. This heartwarming story is the perfect way to start the yuletide season, and a warm addition to any family's festive holiday traditions.

Download or read book There Really is a Santa Claus History of Saint Nicholas Christmas Holiday Traditions written by William J. Federer and published by Amerisearch, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Includes U.S. president's Christmas addresses."

Download or read book Round About the Christmas Tree written by Becky Brown and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love and treasure. This edition is introduced by Ned Halley and features charming illustrations by Alice Ercle Hunt. Round About the Christmas Tree is the perfect Christmas gift for booklovers as all facets of the festive season are represented here in one gorgeous volume. This anthology shows what an inspiration Christmas was for so many famous writers, whether it be a time for celebration, for family, or a chance to remember those in hardship. There are heart-warming stories from Charles Dickens and E. Nesbit, comic fun from G. K. Chesterton and Saki, touching whimsy from Hans Christian Andersen, and even crimes to solve from Arthur Conan Doyle.

Download or read book The Fir Tree written by Lilli Carre and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Fir Tree" by Hans Christian Andersen, published originally in 1845, follows the life of a young fir tree living in the woods (of all places). Compared to the other trees around him, he feels small, spindly and short, and he constantly utters complaint to any and all woodland creatures within ear shot. Most pointedly, he wonders "when will he truly be alive?" When he sees humans cut down some beautiful trees nearby and then drag them across the snow, he asks the swallows, "Where are they going?" In answer they tell him of all Christmas's splendor and beauty of which those lucky trees will soon be a part. Yet when the time comes for our little fir tree to have his turn, he's taught an unexpected and irreversible lesson. No one is better suited to adapt this sweet and sorrowful tale than Lilli Carre. Creator of The Tales of Woodland Pete and The Lagoon, her sensibility will graft beautifully over the antiquated yet quirky tale by the great master Hans Christian Andersen.

Download or read book Who Is Santa Claus written by William Shepard Walsh and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who Is Santa Klaus? Just as the Christmas tree was brought over to this country by early German immigrants so Saint Nicholas, or Santa Klaus, came here in the train of the Dutch settlers of New York. He established himself first in the little island of Manhattan and then gradually spread all over the country. His Dutch origin is shown by the very name Santa Klaus, which is common alike to Holland and America, though it is elsewhere unknown. At first he was honored on his own day with the same observances that marked the festival in the Fatherland. Before the beginning of the nineteenth century St. Nicholas's day had been all but forgotten in New Amsterdam, and New Year's Eve was the occasion when he made his rounds as a gift bearer to the children. Later he transferred his activities to Christmas. To go further back, we know that even in the eighteenth century, when New York was still to a great extent Dutch in blood and in feeling, the little children of the Knickerbockers would gather expectant around the great hearth in the parlor on the eve of New Year and not on the eve of Saint Nicholas's feast. It was to Saint Nicholas they addressed the childish hymns and songs their forefathers had brought from Holland. It was about the middle of the nineteenth century that the funny men of America took the Saint under their special patronage. In Holland he had been austere and dignified, as became a bishop and a saint. In America he developed into the fat, jolly, pot-bellied old roisterer whom we all know and love and who reminds us at so many points of the fun loving Silenus of Pagan times. Undoubtedly it was the American, Clement C. Moore, who immortalized the figure and decided the model which all succeeding poets and artists have ever followed.

Download or read book Once There Was a Christmas Tree written by Jerry Smath and published by Cartwheel Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Bear cuts down a perfect tree for Christmas, but decides to share it, until eventually the tree becomes shared between four friends.

Download or read book Christmas Without a Tree written by Elizabeth Rodger and published by Little Simon. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Pig family prepares for Christmas, Charlie finds ways to bring the holiday spirit to their neighbor Grumpy Gramps Badger.

Download or read book Monster Needs a Christmas Tree written by Paul Czajak and published by Picture Book. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The holidays are filled with joy and so many fun things to do that distract Monster from finding a tree, and he worries he won't be able to get one in time for Christmas. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Picture Books is an imprint of Spotlight, a division of ABDO.

Download or read book Piney the Talking Christmas Tree written by Mary Eustace and published by [Scarborough, Ont.] : McGraw-Hill Ryerson. This book was released on 1974 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Piney writes a song as a present to Santa Claus, but Red Tail Fox almost steals it.

Download or read book Christmas Without a Tree written by Jim Warwick and published by America Star Books. This book was released on 2015-10-02 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas Without a Tree is a modern-day A Christmas Carol that begins with 7 year-old Wendell accusing three sets of townspeople on Christmas Eve of stealing Pinesbury's only truckload of Christmas trees. Without a tree, Wendell believes Santa Claus will pass over his house and he won't get the present he really wants this year: a blue bike. The charming townspeople try to convince Wendell that he doesn't need a tree to enjoy Christmas, but he doesn't believe them. He goes home tired and disappointed. The ending with both amaze you and warm your heart this holiday season. Jim Warwick is beginning his writing career with this first book, Christmas Without a Tree. It is the first installment of five children's books in the "Without" series. Each of the young main characters learn valuable life-lessons that center around different holidays. Jim is currently working on his second book, Easter Without a Basket. Jim is married to Pam and he has two children, Lauren and James.

Download or read book The Christmas Tree That Nobody Wanted written by Jerry Rosenstein and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-06 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Christmas time. Like all children, Jeffrey is looking forward to Santa Claus, opening presents, getting together with family and the special food that his mother prepares. However, this year is different. Jeffrey has an idea. He determines that it is better to give rather than to receive. Jeffrey and his dad find a way to make what could have been a sad Christmas a very special holiday for a total stranger.