Here are two that we really liked from this weeks stash.

I also found this one was made into a movie. It is over a hour and a half long so it really fleshes out the story and very beautifully filmed. My kids really loved watching the story come to life in this film version.

I remember one year Sophie told every Santa she came across that she really wanted a stuffed Cheshire cat that she had seen at Costco. It was the only thing she wanted and just knew that Santa would come through. It ended up being by her Stocking Christmas morning and she was thrilled. But when night time came, she didn't want to sleep with it or even have it in her room with her. It had to sleep out in the living room because it was too scary. She continued to have bad dreams about this Cheshire Cat so we ended up getting rid of it.
I remind her of this Cheshire cat whenever she wants something that she feels she just has to have in hopes that she will think about the gift and make sure it is really what she wants.
It is a good thing there are so many Christmas books at the library. We are going through a bunch of them everyday. I think I need to get Ian and Henry library cards so that they too can each check out 5 books. Then we could have 20 Christmas books out at the same time. We have gone through that many this week. Do you have any that you think we really need to try?

4 comments:
I love My Penguin Osbert.
The story of the Penguin Osbert and the Cheshire Cat are certainly true to life. How many things do we think we want and then when we get it, the reality doesn't measure up to the expectation. I enjoyed reading the two books to the children when I was there. Did you get the "Miracle of Jonathan Toomey" from Netflix? It is an excellent Christmas story.
We'll request those 2 at our library. When we went this week, most of the Christmas books were picked over. Thanks for the suggestions!
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