Children, Books and Advent
Monday, December 13th, 2010
Advent is celebrated by Christians in the four weeks leading up to Christmas Day. At our house, we have taken to setting out an Advent wreath with candles and lighting the candles in succession during the weeks before Christmas while we have dinner. We also have Advent calendars — one with chocolates, and the other stuffed with candy canes that our children eat day-by-day. This year, my daughter and I have the added pleasure of enjoying an on-line Advent calendar that celebrates each day with a magical scene from a wintry village.
One of my reading pleasures this Advent is librarian Sue Fisher’s blog, Mouse-traps and the Moon. For Advent, Sue is featuring a blog post each day on the best child-focused book sites she’s found on the Web. I know it’s getting close to mid-December with my post today, but you can always scroll back to Sue’s earlier posts to see what gems she’s found from Dec. 1. In fact, that’s just what my daughter and I did together this past Sunday afternoon when it simply was too cold to do anything outside. We watched videos on the Peter Rabbit site, heard Spike Milligan recite “On the Ning Nang Nong,” played games on the Jan Brett author site — these are some of the delightful interactive sites Sue links to in her posts. Do check out Mousetraps and the Moon. You can have a fun time with your child exploring these sites and learning about some great books for kids.
