Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Fiction >> Holidays & Celebrations - Christmas & Advent

"Richly detailed and colorful full-page illustrations accompany this Christmas poem featuring the customs and language of the Irish." --Children's Literature

'Round Christmastime, things are a little different on the Emerald Isle. Instead of logs thrown onto the fire, we find turf blazing bright. Instead of cold eggnog spiced just right, the mother and father are enjoying their stout. You'll find no Donner or Cupid or Blitzen, but Ould Neddy the donkey and his small cart. Father Christmas with his Irish eyes twinkling ushers in his seven elves, and thus begins the wondrous Irish...

Inspired by the spicy humor of Cajun Night Before Christmasi1/2 and the authors' own chaotic holiday experiences, this is the story of St. Nick, an alligator named Pierre, and the Boudreau family's post-Christmas blues.

Boudreau needs to get away. His children are hollering as they play with their new toys, and his wife has cleaned out their pocketbook after buying Christmas gifts and treats. As he drifts down the bayou on a moonlit night, Boudreau spies Pierre, one of St. Nicholas' alligators that has been left behind Boudreau offers Pierre a home to keep him safe from hunters and...

More than twenty-five years after its first appearance, Cajun Night Before Christmas has become a modern classic that has sold more than 660,000 copies and has served as the model for Pelicani1/2s ongoing, best-selling Night Before Christmas series. This miniature edition comes ready to hang on the Christmas tree. It will delight both young and old with its beautiful full-color illustrations and lively story, a timeless addition to Christmas celebrations across the country. James Rice, in his long, distinguished career as an author and illustrator, and with more than a million and a half...

"'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the town
All the students and teachers had settled right down."

Though everybody else has settled down for a long winter's nap, poor Principal Swell has his hands full. With state-mandated paperwork, computers to fix, bus routes to unknot, not to mention discipline and field trips and all the concerned parents, it seems hei1/2ll never get back home to his own family Suddenly the school bell rings, and there
stands a lively professor with a promise to fix, complete, or manage it all, since hei1/2s already sent the teachers...