It's our monthly book show and the theme is seasonal books. We talk about books centered on the holidays, fall, winter and the New Year.
Jill Erickson and Vicky Titcomb join us with their picks of seasonal offerings.
Listener book picks:
Trees of the Dancing Goats by Patricia Polacco
The Christmas Menorahs: How a Town Fought Hate by Janice Cohn
Over and Under the Snow by Kate Messner
Murder for Christmas is by Francis Duncan.
Jill's Picks:
ICE: the nature, the history, and the uses of an astonishing substance by Mariana Gosnell
THE FROZEN-WATER TRADE: A TRUE STORY by Gavin Weightman
THE BIG BOOK OF CHRISTMAS MYSTERIES edited by Otto Penzler
OBERLAND by Dorothy Richardson, which can be found in the PILGRIMAGE 4 series.
THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE SNOWMAN by Bob Eckstein
TREES IN A WINTER LANDSCAPE by Alice Upham Smith
KATY AND THE BIG SNOW by Virginia Lee Burton
Vicky's list
Time of the Child - Niall Williams
Brightly Shining - Ingvild Rishoi
Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan
The Dark Side of the Holidays
The Dead of Winter: Beware the Krampus and Other Wicked Christmas Creatures by Sarah Clegg.
An Egg Nog to Die For: A Cape Cod Foodie Mystery by Amy Pershing
Twelve Terrors of Christmas by John Updike and illustrated perfectly by Edward Gorey
Children’s
Christmas Book Flood by Emily Kilgore
Letters from the North Pole by Annie Atkins with letters from Santa
The Joy of Advent: Family Celebrations for Advent & the Twelve Days of Christmas by Rebecca and Stephen Grabill.
Hanukkah by Leslea Newman
A few added old favorites (not mentioned in the program)
Mr. Willoughby’s Christmas Tree by Robert Barry
Christmas Cookie Sprinkle Snitcher by Robert Kraus
Best Worst Christmas Pageant Ever - Barbara Robinson
A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
Santaland Diaries - David Sedaris
