(Ages 5 to 9) The Christmas rose, Helleborus niger, is a winter-blooming plant whose medicinal uses date back well before the birth of Christ. (All ages) A collection of the text and music to over 50 familiar holiday songs, nearly half of them the modern secular songs - the sounds of the mall - decorated with illustrations from old books and magazines. Compiled by Cooper Edens and Benjamin Darling. (All ages) A Russian-born illustrator who lives in Vermont sets the familiar song in a snowy wonderland. (All ages) A charmingly illustrated and thoughtfully annotated collection of 16 stories of European origin from the ''cultures that had the earliest shaping influence on the new country.'' Excellent for reading aloud. STOCKINGS OF BUTTERMILK: American Folktales. In addition to lush illustrations, there's a helpful introduction to the Greek myths and a handsome selection of photographs of classic images of the gods and goddesses in paintings and sculpture. (Ages 8 and up) The author consulted with some contemporary readers before deciding to concentrate on stories about the goddess of wisdom, the goddess of love and the goddess of marriage. (All ages) The contemporary setting of the familiar holiday poem finds the family settling down for their long winter's nap in a yellow frame house in a snow-covered working-class urban neighborhood.
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