The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh
Advance Middle School and Up Thirteen-year-old Matthew is miserable. His journalist dad is stuck overseas indefinitely, and his mom has moved in his one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother
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A World of Cookies for Santa: Follow Santa’s Tasty Trip Around the World by M.E. Furman
This is the first review in my Christmas book review collection. Enjoy!
Rated E for Everyone
Come along on Santas Christmas Eve ride and discover the sweet treats shared with him by children across the globe.
This book isnt just about cookies, other countries traditions are woven into the book too. Many countries have similar traditions like leaving out alcoholic beverages for Santa and children leaving out their shoes for Santa to fill with presents. I had fun learning about all of the different myths and versions of Santa, including two versions of him riding a donkey and another of him surfboarding with a dolphin.
Santa Claus goes by many names and each country has a different way of saying it, examples below:
Japan: Hoteiosha
Indonesia: Sinterklaas
Sri Lanka: Naththal Seeya (Christmas Grandfather)
India: Christmas Baba (Father Christmas)
South Africa: Kersvader (Father Christmas)
Egypt: Baba Noel
Russia: Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost)
Ukraine: Svyatyy Mykolay (Saint Nickolas)
Denmark: Julemande (Christmas Man)
Norway: Julenissen (Christmas Elf)
Poland: Star Man
Germany: Weihnachtsmann (Christmas Man)
France: Père Noël
Brazil: Papai Noel
Argentina: Papa Noel
Chile: Viejo Pascuero (Old Man Christmas)
Costa Rica: Colacho
Hawaii: Kanakaloka
This is only a sample of the many hard to pronounce words this book has to offer.
Multiple cookie recipes are included in the back of this book. Personally, if a cookie doesnt have chocolate in it Im not interested. If you want to learn more about cookies and customs, click on the website link below.
https://www.worldofcookiesforsanta.com
As a bonus, heres a Baby Blues comic that shows its not easy making Christmas cookies when you have a sibling:
This weeks Weird but True Fact about Christmas Cookies
In the 1800s, Pennsylvania Dutch children hung decorated Christmas cookies in the windows of their homes.
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