December 3, 2007
Lyon College News Bureau

Library puts childhood favorites
up front for the holiday season

Childhood favorites, books that make you tear up, readings that become traditional each year at Christmas time – these are what’s up front at the library this December. We have pulled the very best of our collection and put it by the front desk for your reading pleasure. There is adult fiction about Christmas. Who cannot laugh at David Sedaris’ Holidays on Ice or weep in Mr. Ives’ Christmas? Or you can enjoy some anthologies of Christmas readings or pull The Christmas Carol once again.

Have your kids seen the movie Jumanji? How about reading them the book? Or picking out the animals in Animalia or showing them the heroic story of Fireboat, the boat that instantly came out of retirement on the day of 9/11 when all the fire hydrants broke and the New York City Fire Department needed that old boat.

Traditional Christmas readings have to include How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Night Before Christmas, and perhaps The Quiet Little Woman by Louisa May Alcott?

For our young adult readers we also have a shelf of award winning books. Did your boy or girl see Holes? Have they read The Tale of Despereaux, the mouse in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea? Or are they into the Harry Potter series or have they tried out the Narnia books?

Come by and check it out @ the Mabee Simpson Library at Lyon College.