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K.T. Vaughan, Parish Librarian

If you are looking for ways of calming down your Advent season, take a look at "Unplug the Christmas Machine," by Jo Robinson and Jean Coppock Staeheli (4-ROBu). This volume gives good advice for how to bring spirituality back into the season by reducing the influences of the commercial hype. One way is by spending time talking about the meaning of Advent and of Christmas with your (or someone else's) children.

Below are many of the seasonal books available in the parish library that we have collected over the past two years. Donations of children's Christmas books are always welcome, as well.

"The Bears' Christmas" by Stan and Jan Berenstain (C BER)

"The First Night" by B.G. Hennessey (C-HEN)

"The Elves and the Shoemaker" by Freya Littledale (C LIT)

"Good and Perfect Gifts." An illustrated retelling of O'Henry's The Gift of the Magi by Barry Moser (C-MOSg)

"The Christmas Story" edited by Marguerite Northrup (C-NORc)

"Joy to the World: Christmas Stories from Around the Globe" edited by Savior Pirotta (C-PIRj)

"The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" by Barbara Robinson (C ROB)

"Elijah's Angel: A Story for Chanukah and Christmas" by Michael J. Rosen (C ROS)

"Angel Hide and Seek" by Ann Turner (C-TURa)

"The Twelve Days of Christmas" by Vladimir Vagin (C-VAGt)

"The Nativity" Illustrated by Jaan Wijngaard (C-WIJ)

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