Children Holiday

All I want for Christmas is...a new Geek Girl story! Harriet Manners knows a lot about Christmas. She knows that every year Santa climbs down 91.8 million chimneys. She knows that Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer was almost definitely a girl. She knows that the first artificial Christmas trees were made out of goose feathers. But this Christmas is extra special for Harriet, because four days ago she had her First Ever Kiss. Now she just needs to work out what's supposed to happen next....

It is five days until Christmas, and Winston has a Very Curious Mystery to solve. He has hazy rememberings of another mouse, and he just knows that someone very important to him is lost. After promising Oliver that he will be back in time for Christmas, no matter what, Winston sets out on an exciting round-the-world adventure to find the missing mouse, helped along the way by wonderful old friends and delightful new ones, too.

The Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival celebrates the end of the harvest season. As such, food plays an important role. While the food varies by region, the sense of togetherness under a moonlit sky lasts long after the last bite of mooncake has been eaten.

With Alligator's Halloween party starting in two hours, Cat and Mouse think up ideas of costumes.

Ava seems to stand out at the Halloween party, especially because her witch costume includes a mop instead of a broom.

Whether it's Halloween or just an opportune time for home theatricals, every so often an occasion calls for fake blood. But how do you make fake blood? We have the recipe.

What kind of fruit could be a boat, a race car, and a work of art? An Atlantic Giant Pumpkin!

Lilu wants to help her family get ready for the big party celebrating Diwali. When Lilu’s father can’t find the traditional Diwali oil lamps, Lilu finally knows how she can help. She uses her clay to make colorful new lamps for the celebration.

Bebeto hears his parents planning for his sister Ana'a birthday. He sets up a wonderful surprise for Ana!

Observers of Ramadan fast from sunrise to sunset. Asef faces a lonely day at school while fasting for the first time.

Mouse works hard to make a costume to wear in the Halloween parade. Then he realizes he can't walk fast enough in the costume. His friend Cat comes up with a great way to solve this problem.

Meg loved to make mud pies. But mud pies didn't taste very good. For Meg's birthday, instead of mud, Mom made mud pies with graham crackers, peanut butter, and chocolate pudding!

A girl named Nina celebrates her birthday with her family and enjoys eating chocolate mice—her favorite treat! When she wants more, her mother says that she must wait a year. Eager with anticipation, she celebrates other holidays and enjoys the seasons. By her sixth birthday, she can't wait to enjoy the chocolate mouse treats again!

It’s the New Year in Thailand! Songkran is Fa’s favorite holiday. She loves the traditions—and the food!—that go along with it. Each year she hopes to play a special role in one of her family’s cultural ceremonies. Will this be her year?

Pitch, the Nightmare King, and his Fearlings had been soundly driven back by Nicholas St. North and company in the first Guardians’ adventure. But now Pitch has disappeared completely—and out of sight does NOT make for out of mind. It seems certain that he’s plotting a particularly nefarious revenge, and the Guardians suspect he might have gone underground. But how can they find him there?

Valentine's Day is Abby's least favorite holiday. Mushy stuff like valentines, red hearts, and a school dance turn her into a Valentine's Scrooge. When Ross Brown, a perfectly nice guy in Abby's English class, invites her to the dance, Abby tries to set him up with her twin sister, Anna.

Now available in an audiobook bundle, this charming collection of sweet holiday stories celebrates love in all its forms, from some of our favorite Amish authors!

Christmas is coming and everyone around 16-year-old Liz Kitchell is busy with preparations. The big houses in her neighborhood are shimmering inside and out with luxurious decorations. And her parents are trying to impress all their friends with extravagant parties and expensive gifts. But Liz feels empty inside. In her English class, her group has to write a composition: How do you get what you want for Christmas?

Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate. The first one said, "Oh my, it's getting late." Join Pete the Cat as he rocks out to this cool adaptation of the classic Halloween song "Five Little Pumpkins".

Larry Woiwode brings us into the simple and anxious rhythms of life for a Norwegian farm girl in the first decade of the 20th century. Christmas Eve falls in the midst of deprivation as Mette's family prepares to journey to her grandparent's farm. When her father fails to bag a big deer on the journey, they arrive, like everyone else, almost empty-handed. Yet despite frustration and disappointment, this extended family combines their meager resources to create an unexpected marvel that transforms the family's Christmas.