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All About Christmas is the first book in the “All About. . .” series by The Good Book Company. The book is full of fun facts about the observation of Christmas as a holiday and about the biblical account of the birth of Christ. This book is unique in that it offers readers the opportunity to gain a fuller understanding of the historical and cultural contexts that existed around the time of Jesus’s birth. It also helps readers understand how Christmas is commonly celebrated on December 25th.
While it is a common tradition to refer to Christmas as Jesus’s birthday, I am grateful that the book explains, “The Bible doesn’t tell us the date Jesus was born, or even the time of year, but he was almost certainly not born on December 25th. December 25th was chosen a very long time ago as a day to celebrate Jesus being born,” (pg. 4).
All About Christmas also examines the history of various Christmas traditions like singing Christmas carols and it gives details about Christmas traditions worldwide. One tradition we enjoyed learning about is the German tradition of finding the hidden pickle in the Christmas tree. My girls found the photo of the fat tailed sheep on page 31 particularly hilarious and I’ll admit, I found it to be funny too. This book is really well done as it is fun and faithful to Scripture. I appreciated the author’s acknowledgment about the Bible not detailing how many magi were present when the magi visited Jesus.
All About Christmas is a really fun book that I see us reading through every Christmas and we look forward to reading the forthcoming book in the same series, All About Bible Animals.
I received All About Christmas compliments of The Good Book company in exchange for my honest review.
