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It's December, and Flora and Ruby's first Christmas in Camden Falls is getting close.
There's snow on the ground, fairy lights are twinkling all over Main Street and someone is getting a surprise visit from Santa Claus! Everyone is feeling very festive. Everyone except Olivia, who's had some devastating news. Her family might have to move away, unless her parents can find jobs nearby.
Flora, Ruby and Nikki must come up with a plan to help their friend so they can all celebrate Christmas together...
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Beautiful atmospheric artwork by artist living in South Africa.
New in paperback. Set in Africa during the Christmas season, this is the story of a village preparing for a celebration - the birth of a child. The story is told in verse inspired by the traditional carol The Twelve Days of Christmas, but in this version by the author Catherine House the gifts are: 1 stork in a baobab tree, 2 thatched huts, 3 woven baskets, 4 market traders, 5 bright khangas, 6 women pounding, 7 children playing, 8 wooden carvings, 9 grazing goats, 10 drummers drumming, 11 dancers dancing and 12 storytellers. This is a christmas steeped in the atmosphere of African village life, including descriptions of the objects and activities mentioned in the text.
About the Author
Catherine House,is an established educational writer who specialises in writing for African and Caribbean schools, and who has worked with leading educational publishers, including Macmillan Education. She has lived and worked in Kenya, Sudan, Eritrea and Zimbabwe. She now lives in Oxford where she works part-time for a charity helping homeless people. This is her first book for Frances Lincoln.
About the Illustrator
Polly Alakija is a British artist living and working in South Africa. Before that, she lived for fifteen years in Nigeria. Her paintings have been widely exhibited in Africa and Europe, and her previous books include Catch That Goat for Barefoot Books. This is her first book for Frances Lincoln. She lives in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.
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Young I SPY readers will want to celebrate the holidays with I SPY A CHRISTMAS TREE. New easy-to-read text by Jean Marzollo is paired with Walter Wick's amazing seasonal photographs to create a fun-filled Christmas search-and-find.
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Young I SPY readers will want to celebrate the holidays with I SPY A CHRISTMAS TREE. New easy-to-read text by Jean Marzollo is paired with Walter Wick's amazing seasonal photographs to create a fun-filled Christmas search-and-find.
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This book is a memoir of the Christmas traditions plus a collection of short stories embodying the most memorable Christmases of Edmund and Virginia Hansen during their first fifty years of marriage. The short stories include: Christmas 1956 Our first Christmas together and we baked the Christmas Tree. Christmas 1959 We knew we weren't in Kansas anymore when our plane landed in a raging blizzard in Chicago. What happened next was a traveler's worst nightmare. Christmas 1963 Family Christmas activities are always planned to the minutest detail. Having a baby on Christmas day wasn't planned, but it happened. Christmas 1979 Suddenly, right after Thanksgiving, a family of Southeast Asian refugees arrived at our airport without sponsors. The five little girls with ages between 3 and 11 stole our hearts and our family increased by seven. Christmas 1987 The Christmas wedding of our youngest son was planned but thieves almost ruined the occasion. It was rescued by the magic-of-Christmas. Christmas 1992 How do you spend Christmas 1992 with your sick son knowing he will not live to see Christmas 1993? We faced this dilemma and see how is was handled. Christmas 1993 One son dead and another critically wounded in combat. How do you survive all this and still celebrate Christmas? Christmas in July 2005 The occasion was the wedding of an Asian granddaughter. As patriarch of the family my toast speech was: Remembrances, Dreams and the Fourth of July. Christmas in June 2006 Our 50th wedding celebrations, all of them.
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"The Chicago Sun-Times" crowns Parnell Hall's Puzzle Lady mysteries "a joy for lovers of both crosswords and frothy crime detection...Cora Felton is a lovable and unique sleuth." Now the crime-solving powers of the inimitable Cora and her clever niece, Sherry Carter, are put to the ultimate test as they square off against a yuletide killer who hides within the white-and-black shadows of an acrostic.... A Puzzle In A Pear Tree 'Tis the season to be jolly, but Cora Felton, shanghaied into "The Twelve Days of Christmas" as a most reluctant maid-a-milking, has every right to feel like a grinch. When someone steals the partridge from the pear tree and replaces it with a cryptic puzzle she has no hope of solving, it's almost more than the Puzzle Lady can bear. But then smug crossword creator Harvey Beerbaum solves the acrostic, and it turns out to be a poem promising the death of an actress. This is more like it Could the threat be aimed at Cora and her thespian debut? Or at Sherry, one of the ladies-dancing? Or at Sherry's nemesis, the pageant's predatory lead, Becky Baldwin? Cora and Sherry barely have time for a mystery, what with trimming Christmas trees and buying Christmas presents, but rehearsals go on, under police protection--until a killer strikes elsewhere in a most unexpected manner.Ordinarily Cora Felton would be delighted to have two murders to solve. But this time she finds herself vying with a visiting Scotland Yard inspector who appears to have an all-too-personal stake in solving the crimes. Cora does too when her own niece becomes a prime suspect and the murderer strikes again. Is someone trying to shut down the Christmas pageant? Cora would be only too happy if that were the case, but she fears the secrets lie deeper. Now she is interviewing witnesses, breaking into motel rooms, finding evidence, planting evidence, and having a merry old time. In fact, she would be perfectly happy--if this wasn't turning out to be a Christmas to die for