Christmas is Coming! - Tapa dura

Thoughts of Christmas become joyful poems in this celebration of the holiday season. 27 poems illustrate the anticipation, delight, and warmth of Christmas-time. These charming verses will wrap readers up in the exhilaration of decorating the house in Christmas finery, going on the hunt for the perfect tree, and all of the other wonderful events of the holiday season. Accompany a family as they excitedly prepare for Christmas, enjoy the holiday, and then carefully put it all away until next year.
Lovely watercolor illustrations by Mary O'Keefe Young bring to mind Christmas tree lights and shiny presents, the smell of Christmas cookies, and cold snow--great for sledding and building funny snowmen. The joys of Christmas are brightly illuminated in warmly illustrated poems that children will read again and again, year after year.

Charles Ghigna (a.k.a. Father Goose) is a poet, children's author, and nationally syndicated feature writer who helps promote the love of children's literature by speaking at schools, colleges, conferences, and libraries. He has written many books for children and adults which range from the 1990 Pulitzer Prize nominee RETURNING TO EARTH (Livingston University Press), to the popular children's book TICKLE DAY: POEMS FROM FATHER GOOSE (Disney-Hyperion). Debra Ghinga's poems appear in many children's magazines including Ladybug, Jack and Jill, Children's Playmate, Turtle, Lollipops, and Spider. She graduated from Birmingham-Southern College with a degree in history. Besides writing, she enjoys music, reading, folk art, and baseball. Charles and Debra live in Homewood, Alabama.