Good morning and I have something to tell you I think my family is the only one in the world that doesn’t have a Elf on the Shelf. Although, in the past I did think about purchasing our own Elf on the Shelf but something has always stopped me.
This morning I would like to let you know we have a new book for this year’s Holiday Gift Guide, and I am thinking now that it has arrived that I should invest in a Elf as well as his pet the Saint Bernard that I saw at the store yesterday.
Without further ado I was sent ” 101 Things To Do With Your Christmas Elf” written by Jason Deas in exchange for this review which will take place after Christmas and the thoughts in the review will be all mine and my friends and family and no, one else.
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Christmas is a magical time of the year. How often have you lain in bed, visions of sugar plums dancing through your head? Maybe you’ve began to gently drift into a dream when, suddenly, you realize . . . you didn’t move the elf!
That darn elf. Making you get out of bed when you’re all snuggled up after a long day of gift-wrapping. But you know that if you don’t move it, the kids will begin to unravel the Christmas secrets you’ve worked so hard to preserve over the years! Before you know it, they’ll think Santa isn’t real and they’ll be all grown up. Fine, you say to yourself, I’ll get up and move the freakin’ elf. However, as time goes on, your kids start to notice the elf’s moving to the same spots over and over, doing the same old things. It starts to become less believable.
For when you’re stuck in this predicament, author Jason Deas has developed 101 different ideas of what to do with your Christmas elf. Get St. Nick’s assistants off the shelf and into a variety of creative situations that will amaze and amuse your children:
Make your elf some skis for water skiing and snow skiing.
Set up your elf like he’s been working out all night long.
Put your elf in a boat in the bathtub!
Create a drum set with a few cans, pots, plastic containers, and other odds and ends.
Have your elf become a mechanic and fix a toy car
Filled with Christmas spirit and humor, 101 Things To Do With Your Christmas Elf is your handbook to surviving the December and making sure you keep your little holiday helper stays on the move.
Jason Deas has taught art in elementary schools for fifteen years. He is a songwriter, sculptor, and makes a mean pot of chili. Most of his writing used to take place at Georgia campgrounds, inside a three-man tent or sitting at an uncomfortable concrete picnic table. He wouldn’t have had it any other way until he one day found a 70’s-model camper where he now writes in luxury. After writing Birdsongs, a mystery for adults, his nieces asked him to write a book for kids. He granted their wish and wrote Camp Timber View. He had so much fun writing it he wrote another middle grade novel titled The Big Stinky City. He wrapped up the Benny James mystery series with books titled Pushed and Brushed Away. Jason also started a new series with a book titled Private Eye.
Other releases include:
The Painter, a coming-of-age novel set in 1992 Athens, Georgia.
Boar’s Head Cove, a new adult novel.
101 Things to do with your Christmas Elf (A guide for parents and grandparents)
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
