A Christmas Picture Book: Season One A Christmas Picture Book: Season One

A Christmas Picture Book: Season One

A Parade in the Village

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I began arranging Christmas villages on our mantel a few years ago, mostly because villages are harder to set up under a tree, and also to keep our Godzilla cats from stomping them. The fragile cardboard houses are from around 1930 pre-war Japan, and the tiny figures (tin Zinnfiguren) are mostly pre-war Germany. As satisfying as this ephemeral holiday art is to create, I found that it needed a story. I began my Christmas tale with this mantel tableau and have added characters and their stories to it every year for a decade since then. 


A Parade in the Village 


Each Christmas when I begin to assemble my antique village, I run into the same old problem:  the mantel can only fit a dozen or so houses, and over time I have collected more than that. So every year I have to leave well-loved houses and tin figures in their storage boxes, even though Christmas should be their season to come alive. For this mantel, I've assembled fourteen of my very favorite Japanese cardboard houses, along with the cast of tin characters that people them. No Hawthorne, Lemax, or Dept. 56 houses in this village -- just an assortment of sweet, dusty, slightly tattered cardboard structures that have somehow managed to survive three quarters of a century without getting crushed and tossed.  Read and enjoy!

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2016
17 December
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
25
Pages
PUBLISHER
Antoinette Stockenberg
SIZE
3.8
MB
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