Little Golden Book - Jingle Bells!

I remember seeing this book a couple of times as a kid, but I don't think i actually owned it. maybe a cousin or babysitter had a copy. I came across it recently in a used book store and was immediately taken with the illustrations, with the animal's faces and the moody scenery (like the image of the silhouetted sleigh under the moonlight).

This was originally published in 1964, but this copy is a reprint from 1981.

Now, the front page credits a J.P. Miller with the illustrations, but if some of those animals don't look like Richard Scarry characters, then I'm the Grinch.

And I'm not.

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Little Golden Book - Frosty the Snowman!

This was the very same Frosty the Snowman book I had as a youth, and with its cherub-faced kids, 1940's feel (look at the cars) and illustration style that reminded me of the old-fashioned wrapping paper used by my grandparents, I'm sure it had a very big part in shaping my love for simpler, old-timey Christmases.

As a little tyke, I would pore over the drawings in this book, in love with the chocolate chip eyes on the kids and slightly freaked out by Frosty's red boots, never quite attached to him, floating on phantom legs.

But as I look back on it now, this example of one of my first impressions of the Christmas season, I just want to go outside and build a snowman and hope a magical hat blows by.

Enjoy...