Tag: J.M. Barrie

Life and Adventures of Santa Claus – L. Frank Baum

Whether you have already gotten into the spirit of the season, of gift giving, and curling up on a cold winter’s eve, or are still searching for that elusive trigger to put you in a more festive frame of mind, this collection is full of stories to start December off with what so many of us think of when we think of the year winding down.

This unique collection of the greatest Christmas novels lists in it’s Table of contents:
Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum)
Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth)
The Little City of Hope (F. Marion Crawford)
Heidi (Johanna Spyri)
Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie)
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (L. Frank Baum)
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
Christmas with Grandma Elsie (Martha Finley)
Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery)
The Christmas Angel (Abbie Farwell Brown)
At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald)
Black Beauty (Anna Sewell)
The Christmas Child (Hesba Stretton)
Granny’s Wonderful Chair (Frances Browne)
The Romance of a Christmas Card (Kate Douglas Wiggin)
Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame)
The Birds’ Christmas Carol (Kate Douglas Wiggin)
The Wonderful Life – Story of the life and death of our Lord (Hesba Stretton)

Copies of Life and Adventures of Santa Claus and other novels have been added to the current CheerUp.Fun Free eBook Collection.  The first 100 people to sign up (new library as of Dec 1) should receive a free copy added to their Kindle Library.  To sign up, click this link, and follow the prompts at the Amazon page.  Once you have joined the CheerUp.Fun Free eBook Library, as recommended books are selected and shared during the month, they will be added to your Kindle Library.

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Peter Pan

It may be a safe bet to say everyone has a favorite Peter Pan quote.  Whether they realize it or not is perhaps up for discussion.  From “second star to the right, and straight on ’till morning” which my own family has used as a quip when asked if we have directions for where we are going, to “All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust,” Peter Pan, and Pixie Dust references, pop up more often than one might expect.

Certainly we all seem aware, “All children, except one, grow up.”   And there are some adults who have started to understand why that one did not want to grow up.

While some are aware of just one Peter Pan novel by J.M. Barrie, it was in fact part of a series of stories featuring characters and a fantastical environment that captured the imaginations of multiple generations, generating not only movies and television shows, but also further books inspired by Peter, Wendy, the Lost Boys and Neverland itself.

Publication Order of Peter Pan Books

The Little White Bird (1902)
Peter Pan (1904)
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906)
When Wendy Grew Up (1908)
Peter and Wendy (1909)

Chronological Order of Peter Pan Books
The Little White Bird (1902)
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906)
Peter Pan (1904)
When Wendy Grew Up (1908)
Peter and Wendy (1909)

(The Publication and Chronological order lists were found at Book Series In Order – http://www.bookseriesinorder.com/peter-pan/)

Copies of Peter Pan have been added to the CheerUp.Fun August eBook Club.  The first 100 people to join should automatically receive a copy.  For more information on how to join the CheerUp.Fun August 2017 eBook Club Click Here.

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