Happy New Year



The books we read in 2010…

• November 2010 - Shanghai Girls, Lisa See
• October 2010 - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
• September 2010 - Look Again, Lisa Scottoline
• August 2010 - Last Days of Summer, Steve Kluger
• July 2010 - The Help, Kathryn Stockett
• June 2010 - The Wednesday Letters, Jason F. Wright
• May 2010 - Sarah's Key, Tatiana de Rosnay
• April 2010 - Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn

Looking forward to starting our second year of the Books ‘n’ Wine Club with more fantastic authors and their novels.  See you all at Ellen’s in January 2011!!!!!!!!!

Merry Christmas

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas!

Seeing how Christmas is about the joy and wonder of believing I offer up some children's classics....

Twas the Night Before Christmas...who doesn't know this classic poem by Clement Moore.  So many illustrators have put put their artistic impression on Moore's poem but none do it better than Jan Brett!  Brett offers other winter classics such as The Mitten and Gingerbread Baby. Her website is something to check out as well.  She has some beautiful coloring pages to keep the kids busy! 

The Caldecott Winner is just that...a classic for the young and old.  Curl up by the fireplace and read this one as a family.  I hear the bell...do you?

Happy Hanukkah

Wishing you all Happy Hanukkah.

 

Learn more about this Jewish holiday also known as the Festival of Lights here.

I can’t resist recommending one of my favorite children’s authors, Patricia Polacco, and her book The Tree of the Dancing Goat.

Trisha and Richard's grandparents, who are from the Ukraine and Soviet Russia, and their mother are living on a farm in the 1930s. They are enjoying their own Hanukkah preparations when they discover their Christian neighbors are too sick to cut and decorate their Christmas trees. They do it for them. Their neighbors thank them with a carved menorah. This heartwarming tale by Patricia Polacco is a family favorite.