#aSIMPLEchristmas :: a new book to add to your bookshelves this season that will get your kids stirring :: review

With Christmas just around the corner, we have our slew of Christmas books out. These books are boxed up with all our Christmas decorations 11 months out of the year. So, when we get these out, it’s like Christmas happened the day after Thanksgiving! We do all our Christmas decorating on “Black Friday”. Instead of shopping, we decorate together. It’s so wonderful!

And speaking of wonderful, I am sharing a new book with you all today that I introduced to my girls a couple weeks ago. Perfect timing too as everyone is talking about Christmas and we are having our annual Christmas Event occurring right now! I pulled the book out and showed it to the girls that night. We sat down and read it together. It kept their attention the whole time as they wondered what the little mice were going to do next! It’s a super cute spin on something that “could” happen in their fun little minds!

Below, you can find a little more about the book, so you too can decide to add this to your Christmas book collection.

Do you and your children read special books during the holidays throughout the year? I’d love to hear what you do with fun books like the one in this post today!

You can pick up Merry Stirring Mice on Amazon ($15.69 as of the date of this post) as well as direct through THIS LINK, for $17.95.

“Author Cynthia Dreeman Meyer shows us what really goes on the night before Christmas in her book, Merry Stirring Mice, a delightful turnaround on the claim “not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.”  Watch Mama Mouse and Papa Mouse show their kids – Max and his little sister Molly – how to prepare for Santa.  “Help your sister stir the candy cane mix,” Mama Mouse begins.  Soon come the sugarplums, the candy canes, and finally the note that says “For Santa.”

Meyer is a preschool music teacher, the creator and founder of her hometown’s annual Christmas Tree Festival, and a retired trial attorney.  She is also an award-winning Christmas-tree decorator.  In fact, the inspiration for “Merry Stirring Mice” was a tree she created for the Tree Festival several years ago, adorned with mice uncharacteristically stirring on Christmas Eve.  During class trips to the Festival, Meyer invented a story to go with the tree about Santa’s secret team of mice, stirring all over the world to make candy for the stockings.  Children and teachers loved the story, encouraged Meyer to write it down, and that’s how it all got started.

Merry Stirring Mice is a treat for parents and children to share, with plenty of new territory to be contemplated:  How does Santa get down the chimney?  How do the stockings get stuffed?  What is a magic mouse ladder?  And lo and behold, there’s even a mouse version of the traditional story, “The Morning of Christmas!”  And children will enjoy searching for the mischievous spider capering through all the illustrations (he’s never mentioned in the written story), and seeing if they can find his name.”