This was a charming little book about the evolution of Christmas in the 20th century. In 1900, there were no such thing as electric string lights or even Christmas cards. By 1999, inflatable yard decorations and electronic skyping of holiday greetings were the new norm.
I learned a lot about Christmas and other holiday traditions here. From things like how the earliest Thanksgiving Day parades had live animals walking in formation down the streets to how soldiers during World War I exchanged holiday pin-up postcards to each other.
Why is there a Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center? How did It's a Wonderful Life become an annual tradition on TV? What is the only Christmas song to be the #1 song on the Billboard charts on December 25th? All those questions and more are answers in this digest sized fact book.
I love to read such a book every year. You'd think by now these things would start getting monotonous. Yet this one was full of a lot of details that I had always wondered about yet I never seem to have gotten the answers to!
Festive fun Worth Consuming!
Rating: 9 out of 10 stars.
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