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2. Icelandic Christmas book flood - Wikipedia

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   Icelandic Christmas book flood. The Christmas book flood or Yule book flood (Icelandic: Jólabókaflóðið) is a term used in Iceland for the annual release of new books occurring in the months before Christmas. [1] These books are then purchased as presents to be gifted on Christmas Eve. This tradition makes books the most popular Christmas ...

3. Christmas - Wikipedia

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   The English word Christmas is a shortened form of 'Christ's Mass'. [3] The word is recorded as Crīstesmæsse in 1038 and Cristes-messe in 1131. [4] Crīst (genitive Crīstes) is from the Greek Χριστός (Khrīstos, 'Christ'), a translation of the Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ ‎ (Māšîaḥ, 'Messiah'), meaning 'anointed'; [5] [6] and mæsse is from the Latin missa, the celebration of the ...

4. The Chimes - Wikipedia

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   Explanation of the novel's title. The chimes are old bells in the church on whose steps Trotty Veck plies his trade. The book is divided into four parts named "quarters", after the quarter chimes of a striking clock. (This parallels Dickens naming the parts of A Christmas Carol "staves" – that is "stanzas" – and dividing The Cricket on the ...

5. It's National Read a Book Day: Unwind and escape into a good ...

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   The day to unwind and escape into the pages of a good book. According to the National Day Calendar, Sept. 6 is booked for books and encourages everyone to spend the day reading. Books are an ...

6. The Elf on the Shelf - Wikipedia

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   0-976-99070-9. Website. elfontheshelf.com. The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition is a 2005 American picture book for children, written by Carol Aebersold and her daughter Chanda Bell and illustrated by Coë Steinwart. The book tells a Christmas-themed story, written in rhyme, that explains how Santa Claus knows who is naughty and nice.

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8. List of Christmas-themed literature - Wikipedia

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   Charles Dickens, The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain. Janet Evanovich, Visions of Sugar Plums. Frederick Forsyth, The Shepherd. Jostein Gaarder, The Christmas Mystery. John Grisham, Skipping Christmas. Maureen Johnson, John Green and Lauren Myracle, Let It Snow. C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

9. Ezra Jack Keats - Wikipedia

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   Ezra Jack Keats. Ezra Jack Keats (né Jacob Ezra Katz; March 11, 1916 - May 6, 1983) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. He won the 1963 Caldecott Medal for illustrating The Snowy Day, which he also wrote. Keats wrote A Letter to Amy and Hi, Cat! but he was most famous for The Snowy Day. [1][2] It is considered one of ...