My Merry Christmas

This charming book helps children relate secular holiday customs and symbols—lights, angels, trees, stars, and gifts—to something more important: the story of Jesus’ birth.

This charming book helps children relate secular holiday customs and symbols -- lights, angels, trees, stars and gifts -- to something more important: the story of Jesus birth. Die-cuts and sparkling glitter artwork enhance the illustration. For ages 3 & up. 12 pages.

Publishers Weekly

Sparkles and die-cuts are the novelty features in the board book My Merry Christmas: And the Real Reason for Christmas Joy by Sally Lloyd-Evans, illus. by Linda Clearwater. Rhyming text describes the religious meaning of holiday rituals: "The lights that glitter on the tree/ Tell us Jesus came to be... / A light for us, and so we say,/ ... / `Light our path, dear Lord, we pray.' " Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

Sally Lloyd-Jones is a leading writer of inspirational books for children, with an expertise in conveying biblical truth to young children. She is the author of three bestselling children’s Bibles, including the Gold Book Award-winning Baby’s First Bible and, most recently, the Moonbeam Award Winner - The Jesus Storybook Bible. She has written many picture books for children, including Handbag Friends, Time to Say Goodnight and the critically acclaimed, How to Be a Baby: By Me, the Big Sister.