About
I am a retired residential/commercial painting contractor. Twenty years ago we moved from a busy city to the middle of a cornfield in a sparsely settled rural township and love it. Professional sports bore me, and no wonder; none of my (former) hometown teams – baseball, football, or basketball – has won a national championship since 1964. I’d rather read a book.
The only subjects that interest me are those you're not supposed to talk about in public: religion and politics. That leaves weather.
Description
<p><span style="color:#000000;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial, 'sans-serif';font-size:10pt;">Santa’s Birthday Gift was written in response to a grandchild’s question, after reading the story of the Nativity.<span> </span>She asked, “But where’s Santa?”<span> </span>This story tells the story of the Nativity and then goes on to tell the story about how when Jesus is born, Santa sees the star at the North Pole and travels to see the baby. Since he is a toymaker, he brings his bag of toys - and offers them to the Christ Child, and then to all the people of the town. His birthday gift to Jesus is a promise to bring gifts to all good boys and girls each year on the Christ Child's birthday</span></p>
Story Behind The Book
Summaries of novels can be found in multiple volume sets in most public libraries in the U.S. and in a confusing array of formats on the internet. Many high school and college libraries have study guides available that provide brief synopsis of novels modern and classic. And at colleges and universities, papers are available written by scholars adept at analyzing and critiquing novels and their authors.
None of these sources, however, as far as I can determine, treat classic novels of the late 18th century through the early 20th century as they are treated in Fifty Classic Novel Summaries. It stands alone.
It is my hope that the summaries will encourage readers to learn to love reading classic literature. A companion volume to Fifty Classic Novel Summaries is planned, which will feature fifty additional summaries.
