AWW Christmas Collection by AUSTRALIAN WOMEN S WEEKLY

$35.00 NZD

Category: Christmas

This is a comprehensive collection of Christmas recipes, both traditional and modern. It contains recipes for everything you're likely to want to eat on Christmas Day: breakfasts, drinks, finger food, starters, the big Christmas main course, vegetables and salads, Christmas puddings, Christmas cakes, mi nce pies, chocolates. But there is more to this book than that. There are edible gifts u cookies, jars of fruit mince, individual puddings and cakes. As well, there are ideas for Christmas wrappings, decorations and table settings. And to top it all off, there are innovative recipes for those inevitable Christmas leftovers, so Boxing Day will be a feast too. ...Show more

Christmas Crafts by Catherine Woram

$38.00 NZD

Category: Christmas

Christmas is the perfect time to get crafting and decorate your house the homemade way. Rather than buying expensive, mass-produced Christmas decorations, follow the ideas and projects in Christmas Crafts and make your own stylish and fun creations. Decorating the Christmas tree always kickstarts the fe stive celebrations, and in the first chapter you will find masses of new ideas, from chandelier beads suspended from velvet ribbons to felt stars and cinnamon stick bundles. The next chapter focuses on wrapping presents, and here there are giftwrap projects using boxes and bows, paper and fabric, buttons and ricrac. The third chapter on cards also features labels and gift tags, and the projects range from fun snowmen greetings cards to stencilled and stamped cards which you can easily make in large numbers. The dining table takes centre stage on Christmas Day itself, and the chapter on table settings suggests different themes and colour schemes, from sophisticated silver to red-and-white country style, to traditional red, green and gold. There's nothing nicer than receiving a homemade present, so the section on foodie gifts includes chocolates, festive cupcakes, chocolate brownies and biscuits to hang from the Christmas tree. And finally, as Christmas is the time for children of all ages, there is a chapter on makes for kids, including brightly coloured paper chains, paper snowflakes and pompom decorations. ...Show more

The Story of Christmas Advent Calendar by Mary Packard

$40.00 NZD

Category: Christmas

Clearly, the format is just irresistible. Wonderfully illustrated and brimming with Christmas spirit, the calendar features 24 jewel-like miniatures board books, nestled in a three-panelled, stand alone backer. The books are numbered 1 through 24, and, like the peek-a-boo windows on an Advent calendar, are meant to be opened one per day from December 1st through Christmas Eve. Read in sequence, they capture the magic of the first Christmas, from Gabriel's visit to Mary (Book 4) to the three Wise men gazing at the star (Book 9) to Jesus' birth (Book 24). Each book is one of four different trim sizes and features a gold thread loop so that after it's read, it can be hung on the Christmas tree. ...Show more

The 12 Days of Christmas: A Collection of Holiday Favourites by Margaret Fulton

$30.00 NZD

Category: Christmas

Christmas is a time of tradition, of sharing meals and memories with family and loved ones. The 12 Days of Christmas makes this time even more special, with its collection of 60 holiday recipes for the festive season from Australia's favourite cookery author Margaret Fulton, showcasing indulgent seasona l favourites and fresh new flavours like Roasted Stuffed Turkey Breast, Baked Guinness Ham and a delicious traditional French Roast Chicken dinner. This is every cook's essential guide for the holiday season. ...Show more

A Tree for Christmas by Jane Riordan; Eleanor Taylor (Illustrator); Mikki Butterley (Illustrator)

$20.00 NZD

Category: Christmas

It wouldn't be Christmas without a Christmas tree but when Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet set off to find the perfect tree in the Hundred Acre Wood they soon run into difficulties ... But perhaps with the help of their friends Eeyore, Rabbit, Tigger and Owl, they'll be able to make this a Christmas to remem ber after all. A warming winter tale for fans of The Best Bear in All The World, with delightful new illustrations. ...Show more

Decorated Gingerbread by Annie Rigg

$30.00 NZD

Category: Christmas

Get your piping bags ready and let baking queen Annie Rigg inspire you to create all sorts of cute and quirky gingerbread characters and shapes. Once you know how to make the dough and you have got to grips with Annie's icing techniques, you'll be ready to start decorating. Adults and kids will love the ideas in the Cute chapter. From a gingerbread family to a fluffy sheep, there's something here to bring a smile to someone's face. When you want to really show off your decorating skills, why not turn to the Pretty chapter? Bring a box of beautiful autumn leaf cookies to a Thanksgiving dinner, or a batch of pretty shoes to a Mother's Day tea party. Christmas, Halloween and weddings are all perfect occasions for Festive gingerbread. If you're tired of bringing out the same Christmas ornaments year after year, bake some wreaths or snowflakes and hang them on the tree. Fill the house with the delicious smell of baking cookies and start decorating! ...Show more

A Pirate's Twelve Days of Christmas by Philip Yates

$17.00 NZD

Category: Christmas

Ahoy mateys Christmas be comin, and even pirates celebrate! In this exciting, vibrant, high-seas reimagining of The Twelve Days of Christmas," a brave cabin boy receives marvelously mysterious gifts for 12 days. But who are they from? With a lively sense of fun and rhythm, and energetic pirate slang, Ph ilip Yates and Sebastia Serra create a delightful world all their own and the perfect introduction to a traditional Christmas carol for the Advent season. Carefully abridged from the original hardcover for a board book audience." ...Show more

Simon and the Holy Night by Eve Tharlet

$35.00 NZD

Category: Christmas

My Treasury of Christmas Carols and Stories by Hinkler Books

$25.00 NZD

Category: Christmas

Fill the year with festive cheer and celebrate the holidays with My Treasury of Christmas Carols & Stories. This beautifully illustrated book captures the spirit of Christmas for the entire family to share. This timeless collection of traditional Christmas carols, poems, rhymes and stories contains all the delights of the season, from the first Christmas to Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. The sound of Christmas will ring with favourites such as Jingle Bells and Silent Night. The book also includes adaptations of much-loved holiday scenes from classic tales including Wind in the Willows, Anne of Green Gables and Little Women. Stunningly presented in padded hardback with gilt edging and place-holder ribbon, this is the fifth title in Hinkler's Treasury series; added to My Nursery Rhymes Collection, My Treasury of Bedtime Tales, My Treasury of Fairytales and My Treasury of Five-Minute Tales. ...Show more

The Twelve Prayers of Christmas by Candy Chand

$33.00 NZD

Category: Christmas | Series: Harperblessings

This text contains 12 simple and heartfelt prayers written from the perspective of those in attendance at Christ's birth.

Dickens at Christmas by Charles Dickens

$40.00 NZD

Category: Christmas

It is said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas, and within these pages you'll certainly find all the elements of a quintessential traditional Christmas brought to vivid life: snowy rooftops, gleaming shop windows, steaming bowls of punch, plum puddings like speckled cannon balls, sage and onion stuf fing, miracles, magic, charity and goodwill. This beautifully produced "Vintage Classics" edition gathers together not only Dickens' Christmas Books ("A Christmas Carol", "The Chimes", "The Battle of Life","The Cricket on the Hearth" and "The Haunted Man") but also stories that Dickens wrote for the special seasonal editions of his periodicals "All the Year Round" and "Household Words", and a festive tale from "The Pickwick Papers". A must-have for Christmas, this edition should be as necessary to your festivities as holly, mistletoe and silver bells. ...Show more

The Book of Christmas by Jane Struthers

$25.00 NZD

Category: Christmas

What is the significance of holly at Christmas? When should you make your figgy pudding? Why was the Old Lad's Passing Bell rung on Christmas Eve? And who was Good King Wenceslas? Did you know that, long before turkey arrived on our shores, it was traditional to serve a roasted wild boar's head at Chris tmas? Or that our Christmases were once so cold that Frost Fairs were held on the River Thames? Christmas Day was first celebrated on 25 December in the fourth century CE. But when should our Christmas decorations come down - Twelfth Day, Twelfth Night ...or Candlemas? And why? Packed with fascinating facts about ancient religious customs and traditional feasts, instructions for Victorian parlour games and the stories behind our favourite carols, "The Book of Christmas" is a captivating volume about our Christmas past. ...Show more