Tomie Depaola's Book of Christmas Carols
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers · Print & ebook · October 25, 2022
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- Who it’s for
- Families seeking an illustrated collection of Christmas carols and sheet music
- Themes
- Christmas traditions, Christmas carols and music
- Genres
- Songbooks, Christmas & Advent, Christian Holidays & Celebrations
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This beautifully illustrated collection has been carefully refreshed with its thirty-one classic Christmas carols illustrated by the beloved Tomie dePaola that will be perfect for making the holidays merry and bright. Christmas is a time for warm family gatherings, the sharing of gifts and festive meals, and everywhere, there is music! Carols with familiar melodies and lyrics telling stories of events from long ago have delighted young and old for generations.
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This intricately illustrated collection of Tomie’s favorite Christmas carols, first published in 1987, highlights dePaola’s love of Christmas and its traditions and is the perfect family gift to celebrate the holiday. Vibrant, glowing paintings illuminate every page of sheet music, and for six of the carols, a foldout page opens up to reveal the carol dramatically illustrated across three pages in a triptych-like design.
Where it sits
| Christmas & Advent | 68% |
|---|---|
| Songbooks | 59% |
| Christian Holidays & Celebrations | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Christmas & Advent
- Songbooks
- Christian Holidays & Celebrations
- Authors
- Tomie dePaola
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
- Published
- October 25, 2022
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Christmas traditions · Christmas carols and music
- Reading lane
- Christmas & Advent