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"A Charleston Christmas Storybook" is a charming collection of family tales set in Charleston, South Carolina celebrating the most joyous time of year in in America's most beautiful city. Journalist and writer Bruce Smith covered Charleston for more than three decades for The Associated Press, the world's largest news organization. His news stories, photos and video of Charleston have appeared across South Carolina, throughout the nation and around the world. His family Christmas tales have been called "A Lowcountry Yuletide Tradition" by The Post and Courier and "An offbeat celebration of Charleston at Christmas - enjoyable and imaginative" by The State of Columbia.The Christmas tales capture the magic of the season in this timeless city of pastel buildings, bluestone sidewalks and quaint sheltered gardens. Each story is illustrated with photo artwork showing the setting. One of the world's most popular tourist destinations, Charleston captures the hearts of all who visit just as it has captured the hearts of those lucky enough to call the historic city home."A Charleston Christmas Storybook" includes the tale of the rather stuffy British mice who visit their Charleston cousins and are treated to a trip to the steeple in "The Bells of Saint Michael's" "Magnolia" is a carriage horse who will only pull her carriage without a driver and with a carriage load of children. "Lights in the Palms" tells how residents of the nearby Isle of Palms debate whether the trees lining Palm Boulevard should be decorated for the season with sophisticated and stylish small white lights or large, somewhat gaudy colored lights loved by children everywhere. They must decide what is best for the "character and integrity of this blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this Isle of Palms."In "Teresa and Prioleau," another story about small rodents, Teresa and her family of mice travel from the wonderful cathedral on the north side of the street to visit their snobby, self-absorbed cousins thrice removed who live South of Broad. Here they have an encounter with Pouncer the Cat. "The Burghers of Boughburg" also have to deal with a cat after Fur Feet comes to visit their Christmas village in what is the greatest crisis to hit Boughburg since the "Blizzard of Brown Needles" when the tree started shedding long before Christmas and "The Great Flood" when the preschool denizens of the house spilled water on the village while filling the tree stand. Rabscalpin, still another cat, hits on an ill-thought-out scheme to free all the residents of the South Carolina Aquarium in "The Great Escape." In "The Colonial Lake Light Caper" two young boys learn that pinching the red bulb from a wooden Rudolph in a house fronting on Colonial Lake really isn't keeping in the spirit of the season.These and other tales capture the magic of a Charleston Christmas and the volume is perfect as a gift or as a holiday keepsake. The tales are suitable for all ages with stories youngsters will cherish and wry humor that older readers will enjoy as they share the tales. As The Beaufort Gazette put it: "Smith is building on his reputation as a Southern storyteller."
Living in the Lowcountry gives opportunity to see many kinds of wildlife. While playing outside, friends notice an alligator swimming in the pond across the street. Deciding not to get close to the water, the friends run home to alert the adults. Parents see the alligator and remind everyone to stay away from the pond. The children decide to name the gator "Grumpy the Gator" because of the grouchy look he gives them when swimming away.God created alligators, too. We need to be safe and stay away from the gators. They want to be left alone.In Grumpy the Gator, we are reminded to be careful around alligators. Always tell an adult when we see a gator.
Children's tales of the joy of the Christmas season set against a backdrop of America's most charming city. Share the wonder of a small boy who greets one of Claus' reindeer beneath the foggy, moss-shrouded oaks of Charleston's historic Battery; meet Butter the golden retriever, who nurses an injured teal back to health in the marshes along the Ashley River; ride cobbled streets with Magnolia, the carriage horse who refuses to pull without a carriage filled with children; discover the magic of The Silver Locket, in which two young girls share a wondrous Charleston snowfall & learn the true meaning of the season. Ten stories by award-winning journalist, poet & writer Bruce Smith - the Charleston correspondent for the Associated Press whose stories about Charleston & the South Carolina coast have been published throughout the South, across the nation & around the world. 110 page, perfectbound trade paperback. Illustrated with black & white renderings of Charleston scenes. Cover illuminated in silver, red & black. $11.95 retail. To order: Marsh Wind Press, Box 1596, Mount Pleasant, SC 29465; 803-884-5957.
Many of North America’s most beloved regions are artfully celebrated in these boardbooks designed to soothe children before bedtime while instilling an early appreciation for the continent’s natural and cultural wonders. Each book stars a multicultural group of people visiting the featured area’s attractions and rhythmic language guides children through the passage of both a single day and the four seasons while saluting the iconic aspects of each place.
Madeleine L'Engle's beloved Austin family stars in a cozy Christmas story, "The Twenty-four Days Before Christmas." Vicky Austin's family does one special thing each day of December to prepare for Christmas. This year, they're also preparing for the birth of a new brother or sister, due after the New Year. Vicky is worried that the baby will come early—what kind of Christmas Eve would it be without Mother to help them hang up stockings and sing everyone to sleep with carols? This classic story of an old-fashioned Christmas is accompanied by merry illustrations by Jill Weber. This special eBook edition includes bonus content not available in the print edition: · Christmas in New York essay by Madeleine L'Engle · Reproductions of 7 unique L'Engle family Christmas cards created and illustrated by Madeleine L'Engle· First chapter of the Newbery Award–winning A Wrinkle in Time
In the year of Our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-eight, a time which will never come again, in a country which will never exist again, a miracle took place... so begins THE SILVER FLYER, A CHARLESTON CHRISTMAS STORY. Lawrence Anderson Armstrong has created a masterful work in which harsh reality and the quirky effervescence of fate intertwine the lives two boys, their absent father and the spirit of Christmas. The beautiful old city of Charleston, South Carolina, where Lawrence Anderson Armstrong was born and grew-up, provides a Dickensian atmosphere as the story moves through the city on Christmas Eve. The characters Jack and Harry are vividly drawn. They seem to have stepped off the pages of a Damon Runyon story as tough guys with hearts of gold. Old Simon Brewer and Joe Sams add the grace and wisdom of the ages seeing life from the downward curve. Axel Caine is the vicious, heartless villain that keeps the reader wondering what will happen next. If you loved IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, THE BEST CHRISTMAS PAGEANT EVER, MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET, and THE MIRACLE AT MOREAU, then THE SILVER FLYER is a must have book to capture the spirit of Christmas.
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