Sunday Randomness #275: Bringing puzzles back: December 2024 with 44, 45, and 46 Baking, Bunnies, Laundry

Bits and Pieces 300 piece Baking Cookies-makes me want to start the holiday baking right now!

Gibson 550 piece Holiday Village with bunnies.  Fun but the snow looked very similar and was a little hard to put together.

Ceaco 550 piece Paws Gone Wild with dogs doing laundry.  I just had concerns about the dogs being around all the laundry cleaners and chemicals.  And I just can't approve of the dog in the washer and doubt the dogs wouldn't be freaked out by the vacuum cleaner.  Just have to remember to suspend my beliefs in reality when working puzzles.  

 

Author/Illustrator 13: A Berenstain Christmas

Jan and Stan Berenstain have so many books out on so many subjects over so many years.......
So....to narrow it down a bit, I've picked a few of their Christmas books.

Just to give you a rough idea, their website lists over 80 First Time Storybooks alone (those are the thin paperback ones like The Berenstain Bears and Too Much TV and The Berenstain Bears and the Truth and the one above on the right of The Berenstain Bears Meet Santa Bear). They have dozens more including hardcover books and classic beginning readers.

Jan and Stan met in an art class in 1941. While Stan served in the Army during WWII, Jan served as a civilian doing engineering drawing and working as a riveter in an aircraft factory. They later married and had two sons. Their first book was published in 1962 and they continued to write many, many more books dealing with the challenges of family life. Stan passed away in 2005 at the age of 82 but Jan and their son Mike continue to write stories featuring Mama, Papa, Brother and Sister Bear. For more information about the Berenstain Bears, visit the official website at www.berenstainbears.com.

Author 8: Brenda Haugen celebrates Halloween

Brenda Haugen has written dozens of books for Compass Point Books-many of which are biographies. She has a few books written in the series "Holidays and Celebrations" of which Halloween is one of the titles. The book focuses on the origins of Halloween in Ireland and England and mentions some traditions such as that of Christians going house to house for pieces of soul cakes and they would in turn promise to say prayers for the families that fed them. She mentions that bonfires were lit to scare away bad spirits and they did make lanterns out of carved vegetables. We will celebrate Halloween in a couple of days!

To find more books by Brenda Haugen visit compass point books.