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Happy Boxing Day Celebrations. Boxing day holiday is here. List out the items for the day after Christmas to give out by its history and fun traditions.

I checked this book out for an assignment last year but ended up not using it. I'm really glad I came back and read it. 

I love the Dillons. Their illustrations are always so beautiful. There was no reaching for words for less used letters like you so often see in alphabet books. I really liked the inclusion of the map to see where each people comes from and the brief insight to their traditions. I wish there were more information on both the people and their traditions but then it would be a different book. 

I don't know if I have one particular favorite holiday tradition, but one of my favorite moments occurs on Christmas Eve, when we walk through the silent, festively-decorated night-time streets of our neighborhood on our way to church.  I am not a hugely religious person, but it's not Christmas for me before I haven't heard the story from St. Luke's gospel, chapter 2, retold to me and sung the associated Christmas carols in church -- and I love that contemplative walk, and finally having time to duly appreciate the love and creativity that some people put into their holiday decorations.  This year, alas, my mom wasn't able to walk all the way (in fact, the way things are looking, those days may be over once and for all), so I only got to take my walk belatedly and after, alas, some of the decorations had already been removed again.  However, there was still plenty of loving care to admire and enjoy (including in the windows of some of our neighborhood's tiny shops):

(Task: Tell us: What is your favorite holiday tradition?)

I wasn't crazy about this.   Maybe I just didn't see the point, or maybe The Darkness is just too dark for me right now.   (Although I did like the next Darkness book better.)

Then again, I probably should have known that The Darkness and Visigoths would have gotten kinda dark and maybe I should have even know it would have been a big pointless.