A Joyful Christmas

A Joyful Christmas
Author:
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2010-09-28
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0805066217

An illustrated collection of Christmas poems, stories, and songs.

A Visit from St. Nicholas

A Visit from St. Nicholas
Author: Clement Clarke Moore
Publisher: Boston : Atlantic monthly Press
Total Pages: 20
Release: 1921
Genre: Children's poetry, American
ISBN:

A poem about the visit that Santa Claus pays to the children of the world during the night before every Christmas.

Stories Behind the Best-loved Songs of Christmas

Stories Behind the Best-loved Songs of Christmas
Author: Ace Collins
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2001
Genre: Carols, English
ISBN: 0310239265

Describes the origins of thirty-one famous Christmas songs, including "Jingle Bells," "O Holy Night," and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," and provides the lyrics to each.

Hand to Hold

Hand to Hold
Author: JJ Heller
Publisher: WaterBrook
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2021-07-20
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0593193253

This heartwarming picture book reassures children that a parent’s love never lets go—based on the poignant lyrics of JJ Heller’s beloved lullaby “Hand to Hold.” “May the living light inside you be the compass as you go / May you always know you have my hand to hold.” With delightful illustrations and an engaging rhyme scheme, this book offers the promise of security and love every child’s heart longs to know. From skipping stones and counting stars to climbing trees and telling stories, every moment is wrapped snugly in the certain warmth of a parent’s presence and God’s blessing. With poignancy and joy, this bedtime read captures the unconditional love parents want their children to know but so often fail to express amid the chaos of daily life.

Park Songs

Park Songs
Author: David Budbill
Publisher: Exterminating Angel Press
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2012-09-04
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1935259164

?One of the most readable American poets ever” (Booklist) amplifies the voices of an unsung community.

Christmas Stories Rediscovered

Christmas Stories Rediscovered
Author: Frank R. Stockton
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2012-11-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1434447731

This collection of delightful Christmas stories from the pages of "The Century Illustrated Magazine" includes the works of such notable nineteenth-century authors as Sarah Orne Jewett, Jacob Riis, Frank R. Stockton, and Ruth McEnery Stuart, among many others. Editor Barbara Quarton's introductory comments provide valuable context for each story, heightening the experience for readers unfamiliar with the circumstances of daily life in turn-of-the-century America. Curl up in front of a fire—and prepare to be charmed by Pop Baker, Cousin Fanny, Wulfy, and the snow babies. "Christmas Stories Rediscovered" is a wonderful holiday read!

The Rock Cries Out

The Rock Cries Out
Author: Steve Stockman
Publisher: Relevant Media Group
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2004
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780972927659

Steve Stockman, author of the international hit Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2, explores the music of twelve artists who haven't necessarily professed a Christian faith but whose work is undergirded with issues, questions and insights that are very much biblical. If you look closely, their music is saturated with spiritual context and redemptive messages that can teach life-changing truth to the believer and spiritual seeker alike. Is God speaking through these unlikely prophets? If so, are you listening? Book jacket.

Run, Shepherds, Run

Run, Shepherds, Run
Author: L. William Countryman
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2005-07
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0819221511

The Advent season is filled with rich themes that have fascinated poets. In Run, Shepherds, Run, Bill Countryman presents a poem a day for devotional reading during Advent and the twelve days of Christmas. Readers will find classic poets they know and love, including George Herbert, John Donne, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, as well as contemporary poets, known and unknown. Run, Shepherds, Run includes helpful hints for reading poetry, for those who have less experience reading it than others, as well as useful annotations to help readers with older language that may not have easily apparent meanings for today's readers.

Walk On

Walk On
Author: Steve Stockman
Publisher: Relevant Media Group
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2005
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780976035756

This revised and expanded version tackles the issues and questions everyone desires to know about the world's most popular rock band, from its early days in Dublin's Shalom Christian Fellowship all the way to its most recent album and world tour.