This book is about a Christmas adventure underground. Why underground, you say? That's because it's about gophers and that is where they live and where they go to school. Their world is very similar to ours and it's happening right under our feet... It's also where they make lists of presents they want Santa Gopher to bring them for Christmas. Join Oliver Longteeth and his gopher friends on an adventure to find Santa Gopher and give him their Christmas lists. It's a surprising adventure filled with twists and turns and ups and downs, and these are only in the tunnels!
This book is about a Christmas adventure underground. Why underground, you say? That's because it's about gophers and that is where they live and where they go to school. Their world is very similar to ours and it's happening right under our feet... It's also where they make lists of presents they want Santa Gopher to bring them for Christmas. Join Oliver Longteeth and his gopher friends on an adventure to find Santa Gopher and give him their Christmas lists. It's a surprising adventure filled with twists and turns and ups and downs, and these are only in the tunnels!
Increase the holiday fun for your children or grandchildren by sharing a holiday story with them. "Holiday Adventures for Kids" contains nine holiday stories: Valentines' Day, April Fool's Day, Easter, Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas and New Year's Eve. Each story is filled with adventure and fun and don't be surprised when a lesson or moral awaits the stories' conclusion. Children age seven and under would enjoy being read to. However, eight year olds to early teens can enjoy reading the stories themselves.
The biggest Depression in the whole-wide world hanging over the horizon, the nightmare of war a threat from over the waters, the scattering of a family on the death of a good and true father, the harsh working conditions of the hot Texas cotton-patch, the terrors of school-yard bullies for a fatherless kid, so how's a kid coming of age in 1940's Texas going to learn life's lessons and have some fun? Follow these adventures of a young but not-quite wimpy Leon and his red-haired scrappy cousin, Melvin Junior, and discover against the back-drop of adult faults and blunders a lively tale of innocence lost the hard way and true courage earned in the tough comedy of kids growing up country style.
On each of the twelve days during her Christmas visit with her cousin Jack, Hannah writes home describing the history, geography, animals, and interesting sites of Minnesota that she has explored. Uses the cumulative pattern of the traditional carol to present amusing state trivia at the end of each letter.
Verdi Gilbertson was born September 7, 1923 on a farm in Mandt Township near Milan and Montevideo, Minnesota. During his ninety one years he has been a husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather. He counts his family as the greatest accomplishment he and his wife Agnes have. In their family are four children, ten grandchildren and four great grandchildren. This collection includes stories of his days as a farm boy during the drought and Depression of the 1930s and details about his Norwegian ancestors who immigrated to America in 1868. Verdi was in the Army infantry and served over 170 days on the front lines while in France and Germany in 1944 and 1945. There are excerpts from many letters written home to his family during World War II. He tells about his many day to day inspirations and motivations as he works on many creative projects including woodcarving, knife making, model airplane building and YouTube videos. As a means of including the whole family in working with this book, there are several travel adventure stories contributed by his kids, grandkids, great grandkids and extended family members. His first book, Verdi received many favorable comments that are shared in this book including several comments from his son Keiths international students. Verdi lives in Montevideo, Minnesota and spends much of his time working in his writing and woodcarving studio. This is his second book. Verdi was published in 2010.
The 8th standalone novel in the Claus Universe. His real name is Christmas. It’s embarrassing. He’s been accepted into the Institute of Creative Mind, a prestigious institute for eccentrics, outliers, and gifted students. A school located in the middle of nowhere with two-hundred-year-old castles and a formidable stone wall. A school where Christmas is celebrated the entire year. Christmas trees, ornaments, and lights decorate the castles. Presents are given out every month, and students are pitted against each other in creative challenges. Chris soon finds out, however, the stakes are high. The losers are expelled. He spends sleepless nights keeping up with his homework to not disappoint his parents and to keep a cruel guidance counsellor off his back. But this place is more than a demanding school for gifted students. Chris finds a clue in a textbook his first night, written in code. Run, run as fast as you can. When he’s presented with an impossibility that defies all laws of physics and biology, anything becomes possible. Chris discovers students aren’t chosen for their artistic abilities but because of a DNA test. He doesn’t know what the school is really after. If he doesn’t stop them, Christmas will end forever. Everything depends on his courage. And a strange little friend.
Since the early 20th century, animated Christmas cartoons have brightened the holiday season around the world--first in theaters, then on television. From devotional portrayals of the Nativity to Santa battling villains and monsters, this encyclopedia catalogs more than 1,800 international Christmas-themed cartoons and others with year-end themes of Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and the New Year. Explore beloved television specials such as A Charlie Brown Christmas, theatrical shorts such as Santa's Workshop, holiday episodes from animated television series like American Dad! and The Simpsons, feature films like The Nutcracker Prince and obscure productions such as The Insects' Christmas, along with numerous adaptations and parodies of such classics as A Christmas Carol and Twas the Night before Christmas.
