Best holiday books for children according to redditors
We found 156 Reddit comments discussing the best holiday books for children. We ranked the 43 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 156 Reddit comments discussing the best holiday books for children. We ranked the 43 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
I love books like this for a “gender reveal”
I usually just wing it, but since people seem to like them, I've started jotting down the patterns. I'm looking into opening an Etsy shop someday, but until then, have your wife check out this book for the basic body and head patterns.
We haven't explicitly told her Santa isn't real, just haven't gone out of our way in a creepy deceptive manner.
We did buy this book for my stepson. It's pretty amazing. It basically tells the story of the original Saint Nick giving in secret to families in need, and other people working to carry on that tradition of being kind without expecting rewards. Then it talks about how much joy parents get in seeing their children be happy without getting "credit". And of course, it closes by reminding kids that their friends may still believe in Santa and that their families will tell them when the time is right and not to spoil it for them.
The books u/pudgethefishpb is referring to are Julian is a Mermaid and Jacob's New Dress (or possibly "Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress", but I like Jacob's New Dress a bit better). A couple other good ones are Sparkle Boy and Pink is for Boys. Picture books are an awesome way to gently bring up the topic of how others might respond to his clothing choices and how he can confidently respond; and all of these books show supportive families, which is always nice to reinforce as well.
The Strega Nona books are a good option, it’s about Italian folk tales.
Rupert’s Tales, which is about a pagan bunny. Different stories teach about the Wheel of the Year and the different pagan holidays, about the basics of magick, etc. One of the Wheel of the Year books involves Ostara which is basically the original Easter, so it’s seasonal!
The Elsie and Pooka series, which is a book series that started as a magazine for pagan children.
Here’s The Lady With Ten Thousand Names, which is an anthology of goddess stories. This one isn’t a picture book though, so maybe put it on the list for the future.
The Witch Next Door, which is a cute picture book that has a friendly witch.
Check out:
The (Wonderful) Truth About Santa https://www.amazon.com/dp/0990592839/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_8cLUDbCVX8MAE
We have used this book to explain Santa to our kids. Without going into details, the book preserves the idea without delivering a lie.
She did a lot of it custom but her base is typically based on a book she loves - Creepy Cute Crochet
Also this book is so cool!
http://www.amazon.com/Creepy-Cute-Crochet-Zombies-Ninjas/dp/1594742324
I've made a few zombies and the robot before.
The Three Robbers?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0714848778/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=DZ1THAIDVQWT&coliid=I1ZQTE1GT5GSEY
Time for a new interface!
Looking for:
I know most of these interfaces are $500-600 (focusrite saffire pro 40, 18i20, etc.) but I'd like to stay under that if possible. Even if it means going used.
This Tascam is tempting, but I have a feeling it's garbage, and it's missing things I want like ADAT in/out. Bet the pre's are junk. But it's only $280! lol
http://www.amazon.com/TASCAM-US-1800-4-out-Audio-Interface/dp/B0044FU6T2
I am very tempted by these used/returned units on ebay. Can anyone speak to the resilience of this model? I don't mind buying used as long as there are not a ton of known issues, which Google hasn't shown there is with the 18i20.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/141332841271?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
This package is also interesting, but MXL stuff is hit or miss. Thoughts?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/171308000178?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
Thanks!
I went googling and geeked out (and may have also squee'd) when I saw these.
Star Wars Crochet
creepy and cute
Also check out the Edwards Menagerie and Crochet ever after in Amazon.
Looks good! Did you make this from the Creepy Cute Crochet book? This is the cthulhu I made from that book. Yours looks slightly different (the tentacles), but it is still really good too!
Also, once I started using patterns, it really helped me develop my "free style" amiguri skills. So in short, good job to you!
I basically just use single crochets for all my amigurumi. I usually freehand them, and so I never really think of using anything fancier, even though I've done plenty of Irish crocheting, etc.
If you're hesitant about how to get started, a book like Creepy Cute might help, just to get you used to working with things that small in a structured way. All the stitches used in it are very simple.
You might also want to take a look at /r/Amigurumi!
Firstly, I second LazerA's comment. I can't personally speak for the classic commentaries he mentions, but if they're classics, you can't really go wrong. Everything else he says is spot on (I would just add/clarify, re: going quickly: the important thing is to keep people engaged, interested, and involved. But if you can elaborate without losing people, that's excellent. Also, faffing is the real killer. Eg when no one can decide what wine to try next and the pouring becomes an event in itself).
Personally, I prefer the standard Artscroll as others have said. Not despite, but because it is just the basics, with a basic translation. I find there's more than enough to discuss just in the pshat and the midrashim mentioned in the Haggadah itself. (And this is enhanced greatly, as others have said, by going through something (or a selection of things) more in depth.
And you can't go too far wrong with Artscroll products, as a general rule. They sell a bunch of different Haggadahs, it seems.
Other than that, we generally have a large selection lying around. The family standards are the Becker (especially for the halachic element. What to do when), the Maharal Haggadah, of course, is a compilation of the Maharal's very deep explanations of the themes in the Haggadah. I've heard that Rabbi Berel Wein's Haggadah is very good. As kids we enjoyed this. And others I can't remember off-hand.
Per this comment (about feminist values etc), there's A Different Night, which I don't personally agree with, but some people I know enjoy. It includes commentaries and thought from a broad spectrum of Jewish thought, and lots of interesting customs and ways to keep various people engaged.
An Amazon search for Haggadah give thousands of results, some look extremely interesting. I can't recommend the ones I haven't seen, but it might be worth taking a look, you might find exactly the thing you're looking for :)
Pattern is from the "cyber zombie" pattern found in Creepy Cute by Christen Haden!
tl;dr ... Most holidays are a single-day event with narrow and well-defined cultural expectations that don't include going to see a movie, whereas Halloween and Christmas are more like season-long celebrations based around broad, fictional ideas that loan themselves to new interpretations and reruns of favorite stories alike.
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I think that one key difference between Christmas and Halloween and other holidays is that Christmas and Halloween aren't really individual holidays ... they are entire holiday seasons.
Think about it. Halloween is pretty much the entire month of October. People put up house decorations. They buy candy. The entire month is spent building up to the actual holiday.
And the holiday itself? Because it represents "everything spooky" to our culture, it loans itself to a variety of different stories. Any vampire, ghost, demon, possessed child, or serial killer can be easily marketed during the entire month of October.
I recently self-published my first children's book. Its a Halloween story, and the artist and I were busy taking pre-orders for it and approaching book sellers and doing marketing from September onward.
And because this story is seasonally relevant, there's a chance that we'll be able to drum up sales every single year. These aren't strategies the artist and I thought about when we set out to create a children's book, but they've certainly been good lessons to learn.
Thanksgiving, in contrast, is a single day. It's part of the nebulously defined "holiday season," falling between the big Halloween event and the Christmas build-up. I mean, let's be honest ... Christmas sales and programs are already playing well before Thanksgiving takes place.
So culturally, Thanksgiving is less of a season and more of a simple holiday.
Additionally, there's not much mystical or magical about the holiday that can open itself up to stories. We understand the very real history about Thanksgiving and we tend to whitewash/ignore it in favor of giving thanks that we could spend $500 on a plane ticket to go home to ignore our relatives in favor of stuffing our faces and watching football games.
Which leads to another interesting point ... we already have pre-established traditions for Thanksgiving. Those pre-established traditions don't leave a lot of time
Check out this list of best movies opening on Thanksgiving. Some of these movies are explicitly Christmas movies. And some, like Frozen, are definitely geared towards the winter/Christmas spirit.
Now [check out this list of best movie openings, period]. Frozen, the #1 Thanksgiving release, is #141 on the all-time releases. People are busy during Thanksgiving. Busy with family. With shopping for Christmas. With the aforementioned feasting and football.
So even if a Thanksgiving movie were to be released and do well critically and commercially -- like, say, Planes, Trains and Automobiles -- there simply isn't a big chance that it will become strongly associated with that holiday. There isn't a big "Thanksgiving window" where people will be interested in tuning in to watch a 30 year-old movie instead of the latest episode of Scandal or the MNF game of the week.
Same with a holiday like Easter. Or Independence Day. Or Memorial Day. These are all individual days that don't have an entire season dedicated to them. They are all based on historical and/or religious events that have a limited number of imaginative stories to be told. Tell a story about an Easter Bear and people will look at you like you're crazy because we have a very set canon for what Easter is about and the limits of how we celebrate it.
Tell a story about a Memorial Day Bunny and you're going to get a lot of pissed off military veterans.
On Christmas, however, anything can happen. Opening presents is associated with wishes coming true, with magic happening. So why not a snowman that comes to life? Why not have George Bailey saved by an angel? Why not invent a Grinch to tell cautionary tale about materialism? Why not create a reindeer with a red nose for marketing? Why not penguins and polar bears drinking Coca Cola?
There's simply a much broader idea base from which you can tell your story.
And that answers the question about Jewish holidays as well ... they simply have a very limited appeal to a very limited audience that is already engaged in cultural activities on those days. Why make a movie for five people who aren't going to be going to movies on that day?
I think that Valentine's Day, however, is its own unique holiday for the film industry. People explicitly go on dates to the movies on this day. So there is a strong market for romantic movies on this day. They don't all explicitly deal with Valentine's Day, ostensibly for the lack of "magic" stories that Halloween and Christmas have. After all, there's just no basis in our culture for wishes coming true or shared cultural experiences on Valentine's day. No trick-or-treating or gift-giving or sledding. If you're lucky, you get flowers and a date.
So Valentine's day gets movies programmed for it, just not movies written about it.
Ultimately, I think that it's a good idea to try to write a script for a Christmas or Halloween movie. It's kind of like getting to work with an IP that has an established fan base, and something that could potentially make your idea more marketable.
Writing for an under-served holiday may be tricky, but as ID4 and Groundhog Day show us, it can also be a great way to market a clever idea. I mean, ID4 would have been a great sci-fi movie no matter what. But attaching it to the holiday just leveled up the camp and awesomeness and gave it instant name recognition and "event" status. And Groundhog Day would have been a fine comedy even if Phil had been a newsman covering a county fair in the boondocks. Having the movie take place on Groundhog Day, however, gave it an extra bit of charm and an identifiable marketing strategy.
Anyway, that's a really long rant, but I hope it helps!
It's called Creepy Cute Crochet. I have the same book but haven't used it yet. I keep saying it will be next! http://www.amazon.com/Creepy-Cute-Crochet-Zombies-Ninjas/dp/1594742324
Also, I think I recognize that figure (amigurumi): it looks like it's from this book. I recently got it as a gift and it's pretty neat! I've only done the cthulhu that you can see on the top right of the cover but it has a lot of other fun patterns.
Edit: I see there's also an Idiot's Guide to amigurumi that might help you. Haven't read it myself, but Idiot's Guides are usually pretty well laid out.
One more sit that might interest you is Ravelry. It's an online knit & crochet community and it has a lot of free patterns, and lots of helpful people on the boards.
Creepy Cute Crochet is the reason that I learned how to crochet. You said 'cute', right? It's right in the name! (Yeah, okay...it's mostly monsters. They're cute, tho.)
My only complaint is that the pictures that go with teaching you how to make a magic circle are so small as to be meaningless. If you already know how to make one, you're golden. If not, YouTube.
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I want a hat in blue and white, like a TARDIS hat!
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Do you have Creepy Cute Crochet?
My grandmother taught me the basics when i was a kid.. but all i could remember was the straight basic crochet and double crochet.. so i made a about 50 scarves last winter.. a bunch went to folks on here.. but i got this book. I had to watch some tutorials on youtube, but ive been slowly attempting some things.. mostly just making shapes till i get them right!
Your stuff looks great and more ambitious than mine!
One of these?
Look N Find Scary Monsters
Look N Find Witches Ghosts and Goblins
My son has Apraxia and it has severely effected his speech ability, but not his love of being read to. We read to him 2-3 books a day, sometimes more! We speak Korean at home and it's difficult to get Korean books here in the states, so Amazon has been a great resource for us. Sam would love a new book! This Book about the Lunar New Year would be an awesome way to introduce our traditions to him this year as he was too little to understand last year :)
A Very Scary Haunted House
Figured it out!
Thanks to my parents, who apparently remembered. The book is called Red Wings of Christmas by Wesley Eure. Doesn't look like it was a very well known book.
The e-book is partially available here on Google, in case anyone's interested.
Hi, I didn't forget to find the link, I promise! I just had the hardest time figuring out what it was. Turns out it wasn't a YouTube video at all, but this [Craftsy] (http://www.craftsy.com/blog/2013/09/demystifying-the-magic-ring/) link and the instructions from the book [Creepy Cute Crochet] (http://smile.amazon.com/Creepy-Cute-Crochet-Zombies-Ninjas/dp/1594742324/ref=smi_www_rco2_go_smi_1968491462?_encoding=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0&pf_rd_p=1968491462&pf_rd_s=smile-campaign&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=1594742324&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0XP7ER03Z10ZZ16NZ7SN). The patterns in that book are stupid adorable.
> Onde achou esses supostos livros incentivando trans?
Os mais famosos:
Julian is a Marmaid (inclusive ganhou varios premios)
Jacob's New Dress
I am Jazz (Esse chega a ensinar ate como descrever os sintomas para um medico)
Existem outros que pegam mais no ponto de "aceitacao" e "respeito", que eh legal. Mas como eu disse, todos esses livros tratam trans como algo normal e natural, nao como um disturbio/problema.
As a librarian, I cheer Santa for wanting to read to the kids.
Give these a spin:
Pete the Cat Saves Christmas
Pete the Cat's 12 Groovy Days of Christmas
Mrs. Claus Takes the Reins
Elfie the Elf
The Magic of Friendship Snow
How to Catch an Elf
And this is the Amazon UK link:
Santa and the Naughty Elf
Good morning everyone! I am so excited about spring coming up, winter drug on this year and it may very well continue until May, but I am hopeful. I recently purchased a wonderful book:
https://smile.amazon.com/Elsie-Pooka-Stories-Lora-Craig-Gaddis/dp/1980371008/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1520176654&sr=8-1&keywords=Pooka
I love Pooka stories, for my kid at heart, and it's a really good book to read to children. It is getting me ideas for spring crafts. :) Some of which include a flower crown for Ostara!!
http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Tree-White-House/dp/0805050760
The fact it is 'loosely based on' appears to be this letter http://www.bartleby.com/53/14.html
Check this out: http://www.aghines.com/gary/activities.htm#xmas
>Do you think it's good or bad to cut down trees? Why?
I happen to agree with his ideas on forestry management, but selling it to kids this way, and inflicting an erroneous meme on America is not kosher.
Did you know John Nance Garner actually said the vice presidency was "not worth a bucket of warm piss."?
Supergenius u/wanttoplayball was able to identify the book I was thinking of. The Three Robbers by Tomi Ungerer. I have such fond associations with the book that Comatus brought back. Here's the link if you are interested https://www.amazon.ca/Three-Robbers-Tomi-Ungerer/dp/0714848778
This sounds vaguely like the book "Spooky House" / "A Very Scary Haunted House" by Joanne Barkan - it glows in the dark if that sounds familiar. Some of the covers (including the one I remember) have a Victorian style mansion / spooky setting. Cover 1 Cover 2
I used a slightly modified version of the Grim Reaper pattern from this book: http://www.amazon.com/Creepy-Cute-Crochet-Zombies-Ninjas/dp/1594742324/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
These books are for kids and explain Swedish culture in both English and Swedish:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07G9MP1DZ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07JMZF82D/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i1
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07QBDLWTV/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i3