About this title: Focusing on the her own family traditions, bestselling author Caroline Kennedy presents a charming collection of favorite Christmas tales to those who love to celebrate the spirit of the holidays. (Holidays)
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Date Published: 11/2007
ISBN-13:9781401322274ISBN:1401322271
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 332 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Date Published: 11/2007
ISBN-13:9781401322274ISBN:1401322271
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 332 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Date Published: 11/2007
ISBN-13:9781401322274ISBN:1401322271
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 332 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hyperion
Date Published: 2007-10-30
ISBN-13:9781401322274ISBN:1401322271
Description: Very Good. This is a very nice hardcover copy. Text is clean, bright and unmarked. Binding is tight and square. DJ is VG. PO name sticker is on FFEP. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hyperion
Date Published: 2007-10-30
ISBN-13:9781401322274ISBN:1401322271
Description: Very Good. Excellent copy ~ 1st Edition ~ 1t Printing ~ DJ in excellent condition showing modest edgewear/rubbing & minor fold & small tear to top edge of rear panel ~ HC in excellent condition w/corners sharp ~ Inside pages clean ~ Binding tight & square ~ read more
"This is a book of all the Kennedy family traditional Christmas stories and poems. I know this is a really random thing to pick out, but a lot of the stories are interesting. It includes modern things, like letters from soldiers in Iraq to their families, which I thought were sad. It's a fascinating book."
"A truly heartwarming compilation of Holiday classics and family stories. Written with a underlying warmth and love of family and tradition that gives one a feeling of hope and a certainty that the human spirit will never be daunted."
"Sowing A Few Seeds of Happiness, December 27, 2007 "Are you willing ... to own, that probably the only good reason for your existence is not what you are going to get out of life, but what you are going to give to life; to close your book of complaints against the management of the universe and look around you for a place where you can sow a few seeds of happiness ... to make a grave for your ugly thoughts and a garden for your kindly feelings ...? Then you can keep Christmas." Henry van Dyke
Oh, how I love this book of Christmas by Caroline Kennedy. It is filled with everything Christmas. Stories written by luminaries, poems, recipes for Christmas Cake that will feed an army, pictures, Caroline's own personal Christmas stories,lyrics and Christmas traditions. And, then, of course, we can fill in our stories of Christmas.
I remember receiving my first 'bride doll' for Christmas when I was 7. She was the most beautiful of dolls, and I had written a letter to Santa Claus requesting her and nothing else. I promised to be oh, so good and to obey my parents. I realized that this doll was very expensive and that Santa might not be able to come through. And, when I found her under the tree I was estatic. I wondered later if my parents had gone without something that Christmas in order to give me that beautiful doll. When I asked my mother, she told me that my father worked several overtime shifts at the post office to be able to give my sister and me the Christmas we wanted. The true spirit of giving from my parents, and one I will never forget.
Caroline Kennedy offers a great deal of information in this beautiful book. There's also a 1961 letter from her father, President John F. Kennedy, to a Michigan girl afraid that the Russians would bomb the North Pole and harm Santa.
After writing that he shared her concerns about atmospheric testing, Presidnet Kennedy concluded: "However, you must not worry about Santa Claus. I talked with him yesterday and he is fine. He will be making his rounds this Christmas." She hadn't known about the letter until the Kennedy Library came upon it for her book, Kennedy says.
"Here are some tidbits Caroline Kennedy uncovered as she researched "A Family Christmas."
In 1659, the Puritans of Massachusetts banned the celebration of Christmas, "which had become known for public drunkenness, licentious sex and gambling."
The American vision of Santa Claus was created by Clement Clarke Moore in his 1822 poem that starts "`Twas the night before Christmas" and was later exported to the world largely via Coca-Cola ads.
Department stores--invented in America--"contributed greatly to the economic growth of Christmas." Macy's began decorating its windows in the 1870s and launched its Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1924. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was created for Chicago's Montgomery Ward stores in 1939.
"The first electric Christmas-tree lights, 80 hand-blown red, white, and blue glass bulbs, festooned the 1882 tree of Edward Johnson, an executive in the Edison Illuminating Co."
America's first public Christmas tree was lit in 1912 by Caroline Kennedy's great grandfather, Boston Mayor John F. Fitzgerald, at 5 p.m., beating New York's Madison Square tree by half an hour." Aileen Jacobson
'A Family Christmas' is one book that should belong in every family that longs for and continues their family traditions. It is a book that can be read year round, but should at least be shared by all at Christmas time. One of my favorite pieces from the book is 'Christmas to Me' by Harper Lee.
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