Christmas Gifts

Large print, greatly detailed pictures, rhyming progress of the text lends anticipationg and structure to the often "gimme" oriented Christmas preparations. This would be a good one to read in Sunday School to kids in elementary school to remind them that Christmas is about love and family, togetherness and the gifts of love, not the gifts from WalMart.

[This review first appeared in the "Ephrata (Pa.) Review."] A short, rhyming text--"Steeple bells, cooking smells. Stories Uncle Eddie tells"--and richly hued watercolors of heart-warming scenes express the season's traditional highlights--decorated house, Christmas Eve anticipation, presents to unwrap, church service, baking cookies, enjoying friends and relatives. Young children will enjoy paging through this book as they prepare for the season's events, or to review them afterwards.