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Sunday, December 19, 2004

Christmas Tales: Found more of my favorite books, these all Christmas-themed. The The Huron Carol is the Nativity reframed as a Huron legend. "It was in the moon of wintertime, when all the birds had flown..." Hunters take the place of shepherds, chiefs from the West are the wisemen of the East, God is "mighty Gitchi Manitou," swaddling clothes are ragged rabbit fur, and the stable is a bark lodge. Even better, it's a real carol, written by seventeenth century Jesuit missionary Jean de Brebeuf who died in an Iriquois raid on the Hurons.

And what is Christmas without a Tomie DePaolo book? He's got a way with multi-cultural tales, especially Christmas ones. From Mexico, The Legend of the Poinsettia, from Italy, The Legend of Old Befana, and from the American Southwest, The Night of Las Posadas. But my all-time favorite is another Italian tale, Tony's Bread, which tells the story of how our family's favorite Christmas Eve dessert, panettone came to be.

And for adults, in the English tradition of Christmas ghost stories lives on in Robertson Davies's High Spirits. Another book I've read more than once.

posted by Sydney on 12/19/2004 05:19:00 PM 0 comments

Sunday, December 19, 2004

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