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Ladies I am at a loss for the name of a book I read the children two Christmases ago. It was written midcentury or earlier. There was a family with several children, a Dr father and the mother was expecting a baby. The children were preparing for a Christmas play at school. Each day of Dec the mother added one more decoration to the tree or house. Ended with a big snowstorm where they were stranded at home and the baby was born Christmas Eve.
This was a smallish chapter bk. I can't find it anywhere when surfing for Christmas books since the library generally pulls up a gillion cartoon character bks : P If this rings a bell for anyone please let me know. Thanks! Kim
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Sounds like Madeline L'Engle's The 24 Days Before Christmas. Karen Edmisten blogged about it recently, so you can check out her post and see if it sounds like the right book. I haven't read it yet myself, but it stars the Austin family, one of my favorite fictional families of all time! (Meet the Austins, The Moon by Night, Ring of Endless Light.)
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Thank you so much Lissa! This is the book! It has been driving me to distraction the past weeks. I am so pleased to learn there are more books in the series too! It was one of those books that stayed with me.
Kim
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An amazingly quick turn around on that, Lissa! (And how wonderful that Karen had just happened to post on it. Did you see the link to Cay's old post in Karen's comments??)
Anyway, I just wanted to take this opportunity to tell you all about a site that I love -- it's Loganberry books Book stumpers. You can post your own "stumpers" -- descriptions like Kim gave (it does cost $2) and read others stumpers and solutions. I really enjoy reading them and occasionally solving one, thereby connecting someone with a "long lost loved one."
Try it here
Now, I'm off to see if my library carries The 24 Days Before Christmas 
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kim what are the other books in the series? Can you post a link? We loved this book.
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Lissa mentioned the titles of the other bks. My library only has Meet the Austin's but I have that reserved. Kim
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Kim,
I'm so glad Lissa was on the ball here!
It is such a wonderful story! Enjoy!
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Jen L. wrote:
| An amazingly quick turn around on that, Lissa! (And how wonderful that Karen had just happened to post on it. Did you see the link to Cay's old post in Karen's comments??) |
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No, I had missed that!! Thanks for mentioning it. Very cool, Cay!
Kim, glad I could help. Karen gets the real thanks, though!
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Kim F wrote:
| Lissa mentioned the titles of the other bks. My library only has Meet the Austin's but I have that reserved. Kim |
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I love the Austin family so much. A while back I blogged about how they have influenced me:
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| I am reminded of Madeleine L'Engle's Austin family (Meet the Austins, The Moon by Night, A Ring of Endless Light—which last is one of my three Most Deeply Moving picks from Semicolon's recent booklist). Life in the Austin household means symphonies booming in the background during housecleaning, family in-jokes about literature and art, animated dinner-table discussions about The Big Questions of Life, evening sing-alongs, a house furnished in books, and car rides punctuated by quotes from ancient philosophers. I wonder, sometimes, just how much my own idea of family life was shaped by my multiple readings of that series during adolescence. I reread them all last winter and found myself grinning at the depiction of an atmosphere I've been striving toward in my own home for some ten years. Well looky there, I thought. Here I've been trying to Meet the Austins in my own living room, and I didn't even realize it. |
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<<I wonder, sometimes, just how much my own idea of family life was shaped by my multiple readings of that series during adolescence. >.
Honestly the one book had that same effect on me. Haunting almost. In those pages was the family I envisioned though I had no real life model for them. L'Engle articulated all that was in my heart. I hope to track down the other titles!
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