Twelfth Day

By Isabel Anders
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Published: Aug. 24, 2011
Words: 22936 (approximate)
Language: English

Short description

In Twelfth Day, Anders offers families the opportunity to extend the meaning and celebration of Christmas through its true length of “Christmastide” … learn about the fascinating facts and beliefs that underlie our holiday traditions … and solve a mystery of mind and heart—providing a full-blown holiday experience for young and old alike.

Extended description

When Christmas-tide
Comes in far and wide,
With holly and ivy clad,
Twelve days in the year,
Much mirth and good cheer... (Read more) When Christmas-tide
Comes in far and wide,
With holly and ivy clad,
Twelve days in the year,
Much mirth and good cheer
In every household is had.
—From The Praise of Christmas (1630).

In her young adult novel Twelfth Day, Isabel Anders offers readers ages 8-14 and their families the opportunity to explore and extend the meaning and celebration of Christmas, one day at a time.

Readers will live and learn through the days, as they delve into long-buried and forgotten midwinter lore—and apply its lessons to modern-day challenges along with 13-year-old twins Brian and Brie.

Through the exciting unfolding of Christmastide’s Twelve Days, the fascinating facts and beliefs that underlie our holiday traditions come to light and are put into practice, helping the twins solve a mystery of mind and heart.

Isabel Anders does for the Twelve Days of Christmas (that is, the days AFTER Christmas Day) what Jostein Gaarder did for Advent (the weeks leading UP to Christmas) in his popular, family-friendly, chapter-a-day gift book The Christmas Mystery (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996).

Twelfth Day entertains and intrigues, even as it teaches how Christmas solstice traditions, and their spiritual meanings, have built up through the years.

A full-blown holiday experience for young and old alike, a family holiday reading experience to enjoy and revisit yearly.
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Tags

epiphany, christmas mystery, christmas traditions, twelve days of christmas, middleschool age, christmas customs, christian celebration

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