Today is 'Go Caroling' Day! 

Here's a spin on another well-known holiday song. If you have kids then the messy mayhem in Deck the Walls! A Wacky Christmas Carol, by Erin Dealey and illustrated by Nick Ward just might be all too familiar. (Although the author claims she is not writing from experience ...)

I love the story of how Silent Night was written but had no idea about so many of the other carols we sing this time of year came to be. Find out all about this in The Carols of Christmas: a Celebration of the Surprising Stories Behind Your Favorite Holiday Songs, by Andrew Gant. Some are very old, others not so much and many

are a combination of an old song, folk song, popular (at the time) song with words that changed with each version. I love that the author also included some of the, mmm 'other' words too ("Jingle Bells, Batman smells" ....) ;-)

And finally, a more quiet telling of a favorite (at least one of mine): Irving Berlin's White Christmas, illustrated by Michael Hague. This book combines my love of this song with my love of snow globes. Nice details, love the snowflakes!

Reading Hermit With Dog