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Six Ways to Celebrate Christmas! Lynn Jericho Softbound $14.95 |
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Lynn Jericho has gifted us with a book that is itself a celebration of the heart of the Christmas Season. With love and warmth for all the ways Christmas can be celebrated, she invites us to explore and discover and renew our own joy. Six Ways to Celebrate Christmas! is a treasure to be cherished throughout all season and a good friend to walk with during Advent, Christmas and the Holy Nights. We can't recommend it highly enough. In it, she invites you to explore your feelings about Christmas as they move between delight and disappointment, enthusiasm and exhaustion, sentimentality and cynicism. You can discover the heart and meaning of what Christmas and the dark time of year are to you, and learn why Christmas is so essential to nurturing your life no matter what your religious and cultural background. Contents:
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The Miracle in Bethlehem Sarah Burton Softbound $11.95
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Once upon a time, perhaps two thousand years ago, or maybe only yesterday, a man stood under a tree and waited. As he waited, people began to arrive: old people, young people, children, parents with babies, and even a couple of dogs. They settled on the cool grass under the shade of the great tree, all around the Storyteller, for that is who the man was. Once a year, everyone gathered round to hear him tell this story. The storyteller’s tale is one we all think we know—the story of Mary and Joseph and the birth of a very special baby. However, do we really know it? The Miracle in Bethlehem offers a unique retelling that weaves largely forgotten, ancient nativity legends into today’s more familiar narrative. The short chapters make it ideal for nightly Advent or Holy Nights readings or for bedtime stories. Children will rediscover the wonder and sparkle of this great story by hearing it anew from some less familiar perspectives. Parents, too, will find it moving and surprising, hearing the traditional narrative through fresh ears. (Ages 6–9) |
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Christmas in the Family Isabel Marion Softbound $20.00
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Not every book is as beautiful as this one; nor as inspiring, nor as helpful to family life and celebration, nor as complete, nor as surprising, nor as . . . Well, you get the picture. Christmas in the Family is extraordinary in every way possible. It is an outstanding crafts book and an outstanding guide to transforming family life itself into a celebration of goodness. There is something for everyone to love, things that can be made by family members with a wide range of skills, joys to be found. Christmas and life just doesn't get much better than Isabel Marion's beautiful invitation to join in the singing and beauty. |
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A Story by Judy West Illustrated by Gerda Westerink Hardbound, large format $16.95
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There is something so very evocative and touching about these two gentle owls who live at the very top of an old church. They watch as their quiet home is suddenly filled with villagers bringing tools, wood, pine boughs and much, much more. What can it all mean, why are they here? The owls don't exactly know, but then again, they know. And in the end, they take their place within the community's celebration of the birth of Christ. Truly beautiful. Ages 5 and older. |
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The Holy Night Selma Lagerlöf Illustrations by Ilon Wikland Hardbound $17.00 |
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Of all the tales in Selma Lagerlöf's The Emperor's Vision and Other Christ Legends, this one has always been my favorite. It is really a story within a story, and both stories are as near to my heart as any I've ever encountered. The one story is about Selma as a very young child who is remembering how loving and deep and kind her grandmother was; and how very empty life became when grandmother died. Before that, though, Grandmother told many, many stories, each ending with "This is as true as that I see you and you see me." And on one Christmas Day, Grandmother and Selma were both left at home because one was too old and the other too young. Both were sorry not to be taken to early Mass to hear the singing and to see the Christmas candles. And as they sat together Grandmother began to tell a story . . . Thus begins the inner story of this tale, one of the truest of the many legends that have sprung up as humanity tries to grasp the wonder of the First Christmas. A man goes out to find fire to warm his wife and newly born son. He comes at last to a shepherd, who sits by the very fire he is seeking -- but the shepherd has a hard, angry heart and is in no way inclined to be helpful to the father. From there we hear how all the world worked to help that father and soften the heart of the shepherd. This is a story that still sends tingles of wonder through my body and brings tears to my eyes just to think about it. I hope you and your children come to love it as much. |
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The Old Shepherd's Tale Christopher Nye Paintings by Henri Sørensen Heirloom quality hardbound, dust jacketed, large format $17.95 |
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This story brought tears to my eyes, it is so poignantly beautiful, the perfect compliment to the festival of Christmas. An old shepherd shares the stable with his animals on the night Mary and Joseph arrive and give birth to the infant Jesus. Miraculously, the stable fills with angels and with light, and the ox, the donkey and the cow are able to speak to each other and to the old shepherd. Each animal gives a special gift to the Child - the donkey (speaking for all donkeys) offers protection and safe passage into Egypt; the ox shares his strength with the Child, strength enough to become a carpenter and eventually carry a large cross; the cow offers the nourishment of her milk, that the Baby may become a strong man. The shepherd goes on with his life of tending these and other animals, but when able to do so, shares the miracle of that night with those who do not know of it: a man beating an ox to make it labor harder, runs to find a second ox to help the first when he learns of the ox's gift to the Child; the shepherd buys starving donkeys, grazes them back to health and then sells them to a good home; the forgetful milkmaid never again leaves the cow unmilked once she learns of the cow's gift. The shepherd sees the greatness of these beasts -- and shares that vision with us in this story that goes straight to the heart. For all ages. |
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The Way to the Stable Max Bolliger Illustrated by Arcadio Lobato $15.95 |
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A lame, surly-tongued shepherd lives near Bethlehem. When a choir of angels appears bringing good news of a child, he turns away. When the other shepherds set out to find the child, he just watches them go. Why bother - they are just chasing a dream. At last, he sets out to follow them, not to find the child but to gloat at their folly. What happens when he finally reaches the stable? A miracle, of course!! A wonderful Christmas tale for ages 3 - 9. |
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Stories for the Festivals of the Year Irene Johanson Softbound $19.95 |
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I had never heard of this little treasure of a book until a few weeks ago. In fact, I had never seen a copy until those I had requested sight unseen arrived at my door. It's been a long time since I was in a community where simple yet deep and beautiful stories were told at festival times -- Irene Johanson has brought that all back to me and offers it to anyone who opens her book. Although these tales for the Christian festivals are indeed told for children, it is hard for me to image anyone who could listen to or read these stories without loving them. Most of the stories are quite short, which is good not only because they can be told at bedtime, but because there is so much imaginative gold contained in each that these small portions allow the heart to wrap itself completely around the stories and lets the mind imagine each one to the fullest. Contents:
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The Emperor's Vision and Other Christ Legends Selma Lagerlöf Softbound $16.95 |
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Mary's Little Donkey Gunhild Sehlin Softbound $12.00 |
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The stubborn, dirty little donkey who is of no use to anyone in Nazareth becomes a quick and willing helper under Mary's care. But Mary and Joseph have to leave Nazareth in obedience to Caesar's decree, and the donkey carries Mary to Bethlehem where the Child is born. The donkey hopes to carry Mary and her son quickly back to Nazareth, but instead they have to flee to far-away Egypt . . . Gunhild Sehlin worked for over twenty years as a UN children's worker in Jordan and Jerusalem. |
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Christmas Plays from Oberufer Edited by Hélène Jacquet Softbound $16.00
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For hundreds of years, ordinary people in the small Austrian village of Oberufer
on the Danube gathered in the local tavern at Christmastime to perform these plays
for their neighbors. With their roots lost in medieval times, the plays gradually
evolved to incorporate a unique blend of folk humor and profound reverence in their
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A Christmas Story Karl König Softbound $16.95 |
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This gentle and imaginative story was woven by König from experiences undergone by a community of handicapped children and their helpers when a child in their midst had died. Also contained in this volume is the report of a journey, which König undertook in 1961 to several European towns connected with the tragic life of Kaspar Hauser, whose extraordinary being had for so many years been an inspiration to him in his work with handicapped children. |
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Plays for Christmas Karl König Softbound In general, the plays are to be performed by teenaged and adult actors. $8.95 |
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Plays occupied a special place in Karl König's creative life. He didn't write them as 'works of art,' rather, he wrote them when a special constellation within the community in which he lived inspried him - a constellation of people and events within the festival being of the year. For him, they were a way of bringing the spiritual impulse of the time into direct connection with human beings and their lives. Plays for Christmas contains:
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Christmas Stories Together Estelle Bryer and Janni Nicol Softbound $19.95 |
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Celebrating Christmas Together Estelle Bryer and Janni Nicol Softbound $16.95 |
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The Christmas Story Book Collected by $29.50 |
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The Christmas Story Book is one of the best anthologies of Christmas tales available anywhere. The stories are a colorful colleciton, carefully choses to show the spirit of Christmas in many different facets. The book is divided into five sections: Advent, the Birth of the Child, Christmas night through the ages, Christmas in the world, and the Three King's time. Authors include Hans Christian Andersen, Leonid Andreiev, Jane Clement, Maxim Gorki, Gerhard Klein, Selma Lagerlöf and many more. |
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The Christmas Star Mary Thienes-Schunemann A Naturally You Can Sing Production Songbook and audio CD $21.95 |
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- Mary Thienes-Schunemann Tears filled my eyes several times as I listened to the CD that accompanies this extraordinary song book. It was not just that the music and singing were so very beautiful, nor was it that the songs were so well chosen, nor even that they brought back some of the best memories of my life. It was that Mary's music is all these things and something much more as well - The Christmas Star is quite simply a sun-drenched outpouring of hope and love. What could have been just one more nice collection of Christmas carols has, through her healing artistry and deep sensitivity, come into the world a gleaming, golden gift of life offered to our children and their children beyond. I can't think of a better gift for your children, your family, yourself - a true celebration of the Light of Love kindled in the darkest season. |
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A Child's Christmas in Wales Dylan Thomas Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone Softbound $9.95 |
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What to say about this great tale of Christmas with Aunts in the kitchen and Uncles in the parlor, of snowballs and cats, fires and dinner gongs, and the myriad other adventures available to a wide-eyed child in snowy, Christmas-y Wales? Actually, I don't know quite what to say, other than if you haven't read it yet, do. You'll love it. If you have read it, well, do read it again -- it is too jam-packed with delight and love not to go back to at least once a year, especially at Christmas time. This edition is the one with the very best, right-on-target illustrations, just right for the story and just lovely on their own. As an invitation for more fun (and to remind those who've read it why it's such a frolic), here's the opening page:
Have a wonderful Christmas! |
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The Clown of God Tomie dePaola $7.00 |
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Tomie de Paola's retelling of the French legend of the clown whose final gift to God is a selfless outpouring of his talents is gloriously sensitive, graceful and ultimately deeply moving and inspiring. His luminous watercolor illustrations are bright, alive and graceful - juxtaposiing the stucco, tile and stone buildings of medieval Europe as a backdrop to the bright costumes of The Clown of God. The result is one that delights the eye as it assures the heart that all shall truly be well. The story culminates on a Christmas Eve of long ago, yet alive in our hearts to this day. The Clown of God remains a family favorite--our teenagers (and their parents) still pull it off the shelf to remind themselves of the truer things in life. Illustrated with Tomie de Paola's characteristic humor, good taste and beautiful use of color. A gift for children ages 6 and older. |
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Lara's First Christmas Alice O. Howell Softbound $9.95 |
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The day I sat down to review this book, I felt as if I had been given a Christmas present -- the kind that are wrapped in beautiful paper with big ribbons and then, when you open them, there inside the box is just what you've been hoping for. That's how wonderful Lara's First Christmas is -- a warm, loving tale that everyone in your family is sure to want to hear each and every Christmas season. It will bring you warm-hearted smiles, giggles of delight, and tears that come from a place far within. In the end, you'll know that life is a gift and that life is good - love indeed rules the world. Lara and her parents are refugees, fleeing a country "in
the East" on the eve of World War II. They find themselves
marooned in an isolated little hotel in snowbound Norway. Left
all alone, Lara finds two eccentric old English guests who teach
her to ski. And she discovers deep love and wisdom from the grandfatherly
carpenter Andreas, who teaches her that Christmas really is a universal
event, open to every heart and every faith. |
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Christmas From the work of Rudolf Steiner Compiled by Helmut von Kügelgen Softbound $13.95 |
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These little books created by Helmut von Kügelgen are just amazing - each and every one of them was compiled with an eye toward the soul needs of teachers. The outcome is that each and every one of them carries within it such warmth, such heart-opening goodness, such hope and love, that they meet not just the needs of teachers, but of all of us. Christmas is densely packed with meditations on the meaning of the seasons, the Gospel stories of Christmas, prayers and verses of resounding simplicity and richness, even a St. Nicolas celebration for children by von Kügelgen makes an appearance. The tenderness and depth of Christmas is of a nature that extends well beyond a time of year -- as, in fact, the original Christmas has done. Contents:
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The Festivals and their Meaning Rudolf Steiner Revised translation $32.00 |
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This is an anthology of 30 of Rudolf Steiner's most detailed descriptions of the primary Christian festivals. Together they form a picture of deeply held, truly joyful, celebration of events that are cosmic and universal, not secular and specific. The cycle of the year is seen as a living organic development that embraces not only the human being but all creation as well. Steiner sees the traditional form of these Christian holidays as having once bespoken the newest revelation of human evolution. Now, the full cosmic significance of these moments requires new understanding and new forms. If you would like to comprehend the meaning of the festivals from an anthroposophic point of view, this is the cornerstone book. |
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Gazing into the Eyes of the Future David Tresemer with contributions from Donald Samson and David Mitchell Softbound booklet $6.00 |
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Love and Its Meaning in the World Lectures by $24.95 |
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In relation to his development of Anthroposophy, love is the
very heart and ground of all Steiner's teaching, the foundation
of all he did, and all he hoped that others would do. These are
the lectures that make that usually implicit assumption explicit
- these are the lectures that reveal the foundation of his work.
Steiner taught that, without love, nothing is possible; but that
with love, we can do everything. Love is always love of the not-yet.
To love is to create; it is to enter selflessly into the current
of time that flows toward us from the future. Wonderful reading! |
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The Four Seasons and the Archangels Rudolf Steiner $20.00 |
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These five lectures are among our favorites. The beauty of Steiner's portrayal of the activities of the archangels Michael, Gabriel, Raphael and Uriel at the four pillars of the year is breathtaking. These lectures picture the alchemy of the cosmos, human beings, plants, animals and minerals moving together through the all the forces of elemental nature to find the balance point of the Earth's true goal. Highly recommended as another key doorway to understanding the cosmic significance of the turning of the year. |
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