Santa, we've got your back this season

NEW YORK - Dec. 3, 2013 - PRLog -- Nothing's  as pesky as  picking those little presents, the ones you forgot to put on your list.

We're talking about the one for the office gift swap and the charity gift basket (Will the recipient be six or sixty?  Able to eat?), not to mention the impossibility of getting the number of children right at the blended family party or the fact that your kids need something small for more than one teacher and, by the way, they're secret Santas, too.

We've got their backs and yours, too.  Red Rock Press offers delightful small (but not tiny, ) full-hardcover, dust-jacketed  books, 5 and a half inches by five and a half inches,  for everyone NOT on your list.  Most go for only $7.99 at www.redrockpress.com or about the same price as a nice holiday card. They're also available at Amazon and other bookselling sites.

Each of our  celebration  books is by a different author and relates charming little-known back-stories about  a particular Christmas custom.   Santa Claus, for example, was not always fat and jolly, garbed in fur-trimmed red or the driver of a reindeer-drawn sleigh.   Learn more and see artistic renditions of his favorite purple and yellow outfits and his earlier preferred transport modes.

Consider the multifold tasks of winged Christmas angel, some musical and some not, or the meaning of each flower in a Victorian Christmas bouquet.   Or make a gift of the true history of the puppy on the Christmas hearth or the black cat which signified  good luck in the New Year or the bedecked horses and birds who  graced 19th-century holiday cards. For the poetry lover, there is a singular volume of verse, Celebration: The Christmas Candle Book,  that gracefully  reflects on the meanings of holiday lights.

Each book is illustrated generously with fine reproductions of images on an international array of antique Christmas Cards.  The books on Santa Claus and Christmas Angels also come in the form of detachable, usable holiday postcards---30 of them for what might now be the purchase price of one alone.

We even have a perfect holiday gift for the recipient who may not believe in Christmas:  Here Comes the Snow, by Rosemary Jarski, is a compedium of fact, anecdote and lyric on the glory of snow, from a single flake to a shimmering white blanket, illustrated with outstanding black and white photographs.

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