Most of the shapes are meant to be photocopied, folded and cut along pre-printed guidelines to create the animal-themed snowflakes. Some are designed for children as young as age 3, while others are more challenging for the truly artistic adult. “100 Amazing Paper Animal Snowflakes” comes with templates for all ages and skill levels. The novel has Banville’s name on it, but it is also a classic. Now we have Snow, just to add to the mystery. She liked keeping her hands busy and was cutting traditional snowflakes for her Christmas tree, when suddenly she came up with the idea of incorporating the snowflake cutting with the animal shapes she was seeing on TV.įrom there, her animal-themed designs took off and grew into designs of all kinds - a viola or other musical instruments, initials - even silhouettes of people. Greene, after all, was happy to sign his name to his own entertainments. Her animal snowflake papercutting came to her one evening while watching a nature program on television. Rated: Moderate (for young readers) for some teenage drinking, some mild swearing and lots of kissing.A storyteller, as well as a snowflake maker, Nichols regales patrons at her Snowflake Station in the City Museum’s “Art City” with one of her father’s “Polish wolf stories,” as she and visitors snip their way through a unique snowflake design.Īs an artist and former pre-school art teacher, Nichols has always been creative. Lauren Myracle has the unenviable job of following John’s and Maureen’s stories: how on earth do you top those two? She does admirably: she not only had the story with the best title - “The Patron Saint of Pigs”, she told a very sweet story of a girl - Addie - dealing with the after effects of a mistake she made - cheating on her boyfriend - and she managed to tie in all three stories in a very touching, very, alright, Christmassy way.Ī great collection of stories, great for both fans of the authors and of YA romances alike. The best part was his exploration of “happy middles”. John’s romance isn’t swoon-worthy, but it’s very John Green: sweet, yes, but with just the right touch of cynicism. Of course, it isn’t easy (it’s a blizzard, for goodness sake!), and of course, there’s romance along the way. Tobin, JP, and the Duke head out - yes, in the blizzard - to make it to the Waffle House so the guys can drool over the cheerleaders. They get a call from Keun, who’s working at the Waffle House in town, after the cheerleaders from Maureen’s story invade the store. John Green takes over in the next story, “A Cheertastic Christmas Miracle,” writing from the point of view of Tobin, who’s just hanging on Christmas Eve with two of his best friends, JP and the Duke (who’s a girl).
Let’s just say that not only does Maureen have a gift for comedic writing, she writes the most swoon-worthy kisses.
Off the train Jubliee goes (who wants to be stuck on a derailed train with a bunch of cheerleaders? Not Jubilee.), and into the path of Stuart. But when her Scrooge of a landlord, Oscar Bittlesman, raises her rent, it seems nearly impossible for Christina to continue business on the wharf. You just have to.) The train only gets as far as a small town in North Carolina, where it gets stuck because of a blizzard. Christina Antonioni is preparing for the holidays at her Nantucket toy shop, unpacking last-minute shipments and decorating for her loyal Christmas shoppers. (Point of fact: you have to love Maureen for including a smorgasbord in this story. Maureen Johnson gets the book started with the first of the three novellas, “The Jubilee Express.” In it, our main character, Jubilee, is thrust upon a train bound for Florida because her parents, Christmas-village collecting nuts, are arrested on Christmas Eve, throwing a wrench into Jubilee’s best-laid plans to go to her boyfriend’s family’s Christmas Smorgasbord. It was not only quite clever, it was very fun to read. A character from the first would make an appearance in the second, and again, in a different way, in the third. The book’s form is one of the cleverest things about the book: three stories written by three leading YA authors, all interconnected. So, it really doesn’t have to be a Christmas book, technically. Think of it this way: it’s several romances that happen to be set at Christmastime. Honestly, although the title is Let it Snow, and there’s a picture of a present on the front, this book is not really a Christmas book. John Green is the award-winning, 1 bestselling author of books including Looking for Alaska, The Fault in Our Stars, and Turtles All the Way Down. By Maureen Johnson, John Green and Lauren Myracle Let It Snow by Nancy Thayer (Goodreads Author) 3.
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