Home for Christmas: Stories for Young and Old (Plough Publishing)If you're giving one book for Christmas, make it this one. Jim Trelease, author, The Read Aloud Handbook They are some of the warmest childhood memories, those unhurried evenings around the fireplace, Christmas tree, or dinner table, when there was time for a story. Now, with this collection, you can keep the story telling tradition alive in your family, and pass it on to your children or grandchildren. Home for Christmas includes twenty time honored

Veteran storyteller and nature lover Thornton W

to sailing off to foreign lands in his imagination

he was a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design and a professor of design at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

writing with the wisdom of maturity and the incandescence that comes of love

The ultimate antidote to screen time – outdoor play with your kids

full of creepers and crawlers

Hello in There: A Big Sister's Book of Waiting

Mark Twain at the Movies

A Kite for Moon

Sam McBratney's timelessly endearing story

She has four grandchildren

There are a couple of hundred helpful annotations that first-time and veteran readers will find intriguing