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A soldier’s diary from the front lines of seasonal employment

Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

December 24, 2025 by carmelpie Leave a Comment

My costume is green. I wear green velvet knickers, a yellow turtleneck, a forest-green velvet smock, and a perky stocking cap decorated with spangles. This is my work uniform. ― David Sedaris, Holidays on Ice I’ve read this, listened to the public radio broadcast of David Sedaris’s reading, and I’ve seen a performance of The Santaland Diaries. It’s been a while, so this was a fun yet illuminating reread. David is a thirty-three-year-old man hired to be an elf at Santaland in at Macy’s in […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: childhood, christmas, David Sedaris, elves, holidays, minimum wage, retail hell, Santa, Santa Claus, Seasonal employment, short stories

carmelpie's CBR17 Review No:47 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: childhood, christmas, David Sedaris, elves, holidays, minimum wage, retail hell, Santa, Santa Claus, Seasonal employment, short stories ·
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After you moo, baa and lalala

A Dance with Santa Claus by Sandra Boyton

Smooches! by Sandra Boyton

Iguana Miss You! by Sandra Boyton

When Pigs Fly!: A Song for Dreamers by Sandra Boyton

December 10, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

When my nephews were little I used to read Moo, Baa, Lalala by Sandra Boyton to them. I would read it so many times that I almost could read it without having to actually look at the book itself. Now, I need to make sure my great-niece has it so I can continue the tradition of reading to her (and having way too much fun making voices and sounds with her). And I will also be able to add a few new ones (or at […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: animals, celbrations, christmas, Concepts, dancing, Holiday, music, Sandra Boyton, Santa, smooches

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:553 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Poetry · Tags: animals, celbrations, christmas, Concepts, dancing, Holiday, music, Sandra Boyton, Santa, smooches ·
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To laugh at

How to Make a Lion Laugh (How to Make Them Laugh) by Chris Cate

Ho-Ho-Ho-Larious Christmas Jokes (How to Make Them Laugh) by Chris Cate

January 28, 2025 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

A while back I wrote a review for a couple of Chris Cate’s kids joke books. The following two are both due in September of 2025, one ready for the Christmas holidays and the other for the child in your life who likes jokes. How to Make a Lion Laugh (How to Make Them Laugh) and Ho-Ho-Ho-Larious Christmas Jokes (How to Make Them Laugh) are two new joke books I read via an online reader copy. They are not the “WOW these are the best […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: animals, Chris Cate, christmas, holidays, joke book, jokes, Santa

BlackRaven's CBR17 Review No:55 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: animals, Chris Cate, christmas, holidays, joke book, jokes, Santa ·
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If the Grinch meet Frosty the Snowman there would be Fox

Hello, Tree by Alistair Heim

July 15, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

cbr14bingo Holiday Level 1 & 2 Ho Ho Ho! And big barrel of trouble!  Fox in this rhyming Christmas tail, um…tale is a modern-day Grinch. Only after his heart grew, but he is stealing… (No, really! It makes sense really, just read this picture book!) Hello, Tree by Alistair Heim is a holiday book through and through. It has holiday images on the cover, the story is a rhyming text about all the wonderful holiday things seen in the town. The text itself is terribly […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: Alisa Coburn, Alistair Heim, animals, cbr14bingo, christmas, friendship, Holiday, Santa

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:380 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Poetry · Tags: Alisa Coburn, Alistair Heim, animals, cbr14bingo, christmas, friendship, Holiday, Santa ·
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Picture books are fun

Packs: Strength in Numbers by Hannah Salyer

Share Some Kindness, Bring Some Light by Apryl Stott

Macaroon Mouse the Christmas Eve Adventure by Nancy Brigham

December 16, 2020 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I cannot help myself. Picture books are fun. They are easy and help me think, “Well by George the III, I just accomplished something!” And these three books are ones that I accomplished. Packs: Strength in Numbers by Hannah Salyer (Rating 4) The book starts off with a simple poem like sentence about the connections of together; then BOOM! Sayler starts with examples of animals and their connections to the theme. By the end of our story, we go back to the simple line of […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fiction Tagged With: animals, Apryl Stott, christmas, family, friendship, Hannah Salyer, Mary McSweeney, mice, Nancy Brigham, nature, Santa

BlackRaven's CBR12 Review No:409 · Genres: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fiction · Tags: animals, Apryl Stott, christmas, family, friendship, Hannah Salyer, Mary McSweeney, mice, Nancy Brigham, nature, Santa ·
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I saw Santa be a Grumpy Bear?

December 19, 2018 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

While there are some funny moments in Santa Bruce (one little girls Christmas gift wish is very amusing but makes me a little more a little bit scared! And I am nervous especially of her enthusiasm at the end when she gets something slightly different than what was asked for). But if I was Bruce? I would eat my “family.” If you know the Bruce books by Ryan T. Higgins you know this book. It just has a Christmas theme attached to it. When Bruce […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction Tagged With: animals, bears, Christmas and Advent, Holidays & Celebrations, Ryan T. Higgins, Santa

BlackRaven's CBR10 Review No:463 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fiction · Tags: animals, bears, Christmas and Advent, Holidays & Celebrations, Ryan T. Higgins, Santa ·
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