My Review
Keeping Christmas Magic is a delightful children's book that explains the true story behind Santa Claus and his Christmas Magic-Keepers. Younger children who still believe may not want to read this, just in case it spoils things for them, but older children who may be questioning things could benefit from such a book.
It's a magical, feel-good read, with a heartwarming overall feel to it. And even if older children no longer believe in Santa, they can still believe in the magic of Christmas and gift giving, especially if they have younger siblings who do believe.
As a parent myself to a teenager and a 6 year old, we keep the magic alive by giving gifts to L (teen) from Stormy Claus (our cat, who is Santa's extra-special helper around the holidays), and P (6 year old) still gets gifts from Santa. It works for us. That's how we keep our Christmas magic alive.
I really enjoyed this book, and I think parents who may be trying to come to terms with older children no longer believing, or perhaps questioning things, will benefit from having this book on hand.
5 stars!
Guest Post
Judge the Book by Its Cover
One of our favorite sayings is “Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover.” It’s great because it reminds us to be thorough and not superficial when evaluating merit. But given the amount of effort that publishers put into book covers, the message must not be landing.
Our book is no different. We worked almost as hard on the cover as we did on the writing and illustration. But whereas most authors want a cover that commands attention from a distance so that weary travelers in airports notice it, we wanted something that would be utterly uninteresting to its intended audience...children.
The
proper place for keeping Christmas magic is in a box with your Christmas
decorations, hidden away with the Elf on the Shelf, or on a bookshelf high
above the wandering eyes of a precocious 6-year-old who can read well enough to
discover the secret before her time.
You see, our biggest fear in writing this book is that a child might find the book and read it on their own without their parents. Our goal is to make an otherwise hard conversation into a beautiful moment instead by giving parents a story that keeps Christmas as magical as possible for as long as possible.
So, in our case, please judge this book by its cover. We hope that its dark brown cover with hard to decipher script will help you keep the secret on the chance that its accidentally left out where a child might stumble upon it.
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