I don't know if this is the best place to post this but...here goes:
Over the last couple of years I have found some "trivia" type Christmas books on clearance, at used book stores and at library sales. We get them out every year. I set them out in a basket on a table in the family room and family and friends who come over never fail to pick them up at random and "I never knew that"'s and discussions never fail to materialize on their own. I thought I would list the ones I have and ask if anyone has others that I could look for to add to my collection.
Here are the ones I have:
Quiz the Season: The Book of Christmas Trivia by Heather Revesz
A small little book broken down into different sections like Traditions/Customs, Christmas Around the World, Movies, Small Screen, Holiday Music, Tastes of the Holidays and Christmas Poems, Books and Literature.
Christmas Favorites: Holiday Music ( no author listed )
This little hardback book tells the stories behind 15 favorite Christmas songs. Very interesting. The weird thing is I can't find this book on amazon or anything. It is from 2005 and published by http://www.sourcebooks.com I went on their website and found it not really functioning???
"Tis the Season: Christmas Trivia
This is a box with cards in it. Imagine the box of question cards from a Trivial Pursuit game and that is exactly what it is like. Each card has different categories on it etc...
Christmas Trivia by Jennie Miller Helderman
Another trivia book that has a lot of biblical history, US presidential Holiday trivia and modern trivia too
The Christmas Conversation Piece: Creative Questions to Illuminate the Season by Bret Nicholaus and Paul Lowrie
This book is more like a journal starter question book and has a lot of thought provoking questions to ask yourself or others. It is a book in a series of question style books by this set of authors.
Advent and Lent Ideas for Children: Camels, Carols, Crosses and Crowns by Sheila Kielly
I just found this book and love it! It takes modern symbol of Christmas ( the book has 37) and looks at the origin, history , meaning of that symbol ... the book has some great expansion activity ideas of each symbol as well as specific scripture passages to go along with each. It is written from a religious standpoint BUT doesn't have to be used that way. My idea for this book for when my children are older is to make an advent calendar out it - "open" one symbol a day and explore it in depth, do the activities for it and use it as the basis for learning about the depth and meaning behind all the "things" we associate with the holidays but don't understand or acknowledge.
Holly, Reindeer and Colored Lights: The Story of the Christmas Symbols by Edna Barth
I found this book at a library sale and this author has a book like it for almost all major US holidays. It shows the origins of all the tradition and maybe not so traditional Christmas symbols. Again- a very interesting book.
Someone recently told me about these 3 books- although I haven't seen them myself yet:
Quizmas Carols: Family Trivia Fun with Classic Christmas Songs by Gordon Pape and Deborah Kerbel
Family Quizmas: Christmas Bedtime Stories and Trivia Fun by Gordon Pape and Deborah Kerbel
Quizmas: Christmas Trivia Family Fun by Gordon Pape and Deborah Kerbel
I would love to know about any other books of similar nature for Christmas or other holidays for that matter!
pixiestick
Over the last couple of years I have found some "trivia" type Christmas books on clearance, at used book stores and at library sales. We get them out every year. I set them out in a basket on a table in the family room and family and friends who come over never fail to pick them up at random and "I never knew that"'s and discussions never fail to materialize on their own. I thought I would list the ones I have and ask if anyone has others that I could look for to add to my collection.
Here are the ones I have:
Quiz the Season: The Book of Christmas Trivia by Heather Revesz
A small little book broken down into different sections like Traditions/Customs, Christmas Around the World, Movies, Small Screen, Holiday Music, Tastes of the Holidays and Christmas Poems, Books and Literature.
Christmas Favorites: Holiday Music ( no author listed )
This little hardback book tells the stories behind 15 favorite Christmas songs. Very interesting. The weird thing is I can't find this book on amazon or anything. It is from 2005 and published by http://www.sourcebooks.com I went on their website and found it not really functioning???
"Tis the Season: Christmas Trivia
This is a box with cards in it. Imagine the box of question cards from a Trivial Pursuit game and that is exactly what it is like. Each card has different categories on it etc...
Christmas Trivia by Jennie Miller Helderman
Another trivia book that has a lot of biblical history, US presidential Holiday trivia and modern trivia too
The Christmas Conversation Piece: Creative Questions to Illuminate the Season by Bret Nicholaus and Paul Lowrie
This book is more like a journal starter question book and has a lot of thought provoking questions to ask yourself or others. It is a book in a series of question style books by this set of authors.
Advent and Lent Ideas for Children: Camels, Carols, Crosses and Crowns by Sheila Kielly
I just found this book and love it! It takes modern symbol of Christmas ( the book has 37) and looks at the origin, history , meaning of that symbol ... the book has some great expansion activity ideas of each symbol as well as specific scripture passages to go along with each. It is written from a religious standpoint BUT doesn't have to be used that way. My idea for this book for when my children are older is to make an advent calendar out it - "open" one symbol a day and explore it in depth, do the activities for it and use it as the basis for learning about the depth and meaning behind all the "things" we associate with the holidays but don't understand or acknowledge.
Holly, Reindeer and Colored Lights: The Story of the Christmas Symbols by Edna Barth
I found this book at a library sale and this author has a book like it for almost all major US holidays. It shows the origins of all the tradition and maybe not so traditional Christmas symbols. Again- a very interesting book.
Someone recently told me about these 3 books- although I haven't seen them myself yet:
Quizmas Carols: Family Trivia Fun with Classic Christmas Songs by Gordon Pape and Deborah Kerbel
Family Quizmas: Christmas Bedtime Stories and Trivia Fun by Gordon Pape and Deborah Kerbel
Quizmas: Christmas Trivia Family Fun by Gordon Pape and Deborah Kerbel
I would love to know about any other books of similar nature for Christmas or other holidays for that matter!
pixiestick
