Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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Looking for Easy Christmas Crafts?

Randel McGee specializes in paper crafts. 

Watch Randel McGee's how-to video to create an easy Christmas craft from our Paper Crafts for Christmas book. This book is written in simple language with step-by-step instructions and photos illustrating each step. Patterns for the crafts are also included.

Available in library binding and paperback.

More Enslow Christmas Titles!

Which of Santa's reindeer has bad manners? Rude-olph!

ISBN: 978-0-7660-3542-3
Library Binding
Library price: $15.95
Grades 3–4

I don't know about you, but right around this time of the year I could use a good laugh. Ha-Ha Holiday Jokes to Tickle Your Funny Bone  from our Funny Bone Joke series is written with 3rd and 4th graders in mind, but adults will enjoy a chuckle from them as well. Besides Christmas, other holidays included are: New Year's Eve/Day, Valentines Day, St. Patrick's Day, Arbor Day/Earth Day, Easter and Passover, Patriotic Holidays, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. You can keep this title on display all year round!

ISBN: 978-0-7660-2776-3
Library Binding
Library Price: $23.95
Grades 5–up

For a little bit older students, Celebrate Christmas from our Celebrate Holidays series for grades 5–up is a great title.

Over the past few centuries, Christmas has evolved into one of the most popular and well-known holidays. But few people are familiar with its past. Long before Christmas focused on Santa Claus, the giving and receiving of gifts, and even the celebration of Jesus’ birth, it was a pagan holiday that observed the changing of the seasons. Learn how Christmas was born and how it grew into the holiday we know today.

Christmas-Count and Celebrate!

ISBN #: 978-0-7660-3103-6
Library Bound: $22.60

Enslow's elementary title, Christmas-Count and Celebrate! is a momentous way to count your way into the Christmas spirit! Children grades one through three can count from one to ten as they learn about the different aspects of this extraordinary season. This title also features words to know as it tells the story of Christmas. Part of the Holidays-Count and Celebrate series, this Christmas title is sure to help elementary aged children learn as they celebrate this wonderful time of year!

For our Christmas book giveaway, which ends today, go to one of our e-catalogs and pick out Christmas titles that you would like for free. Like us on Facebook, and write on our Facebook wall, letting us know which title you would like to receive. We will choose one reader by the end of the week. The winner will be announced on Facebook on Monday!

Enslow's "Paper Crafts for Christmas" Offers Hands-On Holiday Craft Fun

Children are already in mid-season form for Christmas excitement. Channeling this good feeling and energy into spirited, fun activities requires suitable materials and a little bit of planning. Books featuring hands-on activities, such as craft creation, offer useful ways to go that are suitable for classrooms and for the home.

Enslow's excellent Paper Crafts for Christmas provides the activities and step-by-step instructions needed for successful holiday activities. Author and storyteller Randel McGee's book is written in simple language, with photos illustrating each step in the preparation and execution of each craft. The book contains patterns and projects appropriate for the holiday. McGee's 48-page work also contains a short introduction to the holiday, so that young readers better understand the craft activities' connection to this special time of year.

McGee's book is part of Enslow's twelve-title "Paper Craft Fun for Holidays" series. Each title is available in library-bound editions for $17.95 (price represents a 25% institutional discount for schools and libraries).

Today begins our Christmas book giveaway!

978-0-7660-3805-9 Library
978-1-59845-174-0 Paperback

Looking for Christmas books for your preschool students? Christmas, Enslow's preschool title, includes a surprise twist at the end of the book. Available in both library and paperback editions, this title will keep preschoolers guessing until the end! A free educator's guide is also available for this book.

For our Christmas book giveaway, which only runs through Thursday, go to one of our e-catalogs and find one of our Christmas titles that you would like for free. Like us on Facebook, and write on our Facebook wall, letting us know which title you would like to receive. We will choose one reader by the end of the week. That winner will be announced on Facebook on Monday!

What is Thanksgiving?



ISBN #:  978-0-7660-3701-4



As we approach the last few months of the year, we begin to anticipate and think about the year-end holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas. Titles in Enslow’s I like Holidays! series, written by Elaine Landau, can help teach children in grades K-3 about these shared events. What Is Thanksgiving? is a great way to help the family prepare for this holiday that is fast approaching. It features words to know and full-color photos as it tells the Thanksgiving story from its history to how we celebrate today.

I Like Holidays! is a great series year round as it contains titles appropriate throughout the year: What Is Christmas?, What Is Halloween?, What Is St. Patrick’s Day?, What Is Thanksgiving?, What Is the 4th of July?, What Is Valentine’s Day?, and What Is Veteran’s Day? Each library bound title costs $21.26 and has 24 pages, vivid color photographs, and an activity that relates to the title.

Make What Is Thanksgiving? part of your family’s feast this year!

Christmas Reading for Early Learners

If there were ever a "perfect" time to engage children with books, the Christmas season is it. The season's marvelous stories enchant children and encourage them to explore the world of their imaginations.

Christmas, a new title included in Enslow's "All About Holidays" series, continues in this wonderful tradition. Author Dorothy Goeller's 24-page title balances engaging text and full-color illustrations to create an engaging reading experience. The book's 6" x 7" trim size makes the tactile experience of reading -- turning pages, holding the book, seeing child-friendly type size -- approachable for pre-K students. Sight words and simple sentences provide a useful "way in" for kids to connect vocabulary with the holiday season in which they're immersed.

The library-bound version makes a fun, thoughtful gift for families, as well as a useful addition to a media center collection. Christmas is also published in a paperback edition ($6.95), which is ideal for classroom libraries or for supplemental classroom material resources. The title's value-added features include a free, downloadable teacher's guide. You'll find it at the Enslow Classroom website: http://www.enslowclassroom.com/.

Elementary students can learn about Christmas

Written by the next generation of McKissacks, Christmas—Count and Celebrate (and the rest of the titles in this series) is a useful tool for teaching children about holidays. This easy-to-read book is enhanced with color photographs to make the learning experience fun.

Interested in learning more about the series? Click here.