Holiday Storybook Stew

Presents recipes and activities for holiday celebrations throughout the year, and includes related stories.

This book highlights more than 40 children's books that feature food and combines them with easy-to-follow recipes and activities.

Fresh, funny, and poignant, My (not so) Storybook Life is old-fashioned humor mashed with literary spoofery. Elizabeth thinks of herself and her husband, Matt, as a modern-day Lucy and Ricky Ricardo. Together they’ve endured paint-color mishaps, sewage disasters, pest infestations, and a schnauzer that poops at tornado sirens. It’s hardly the domestic perfection a young Liz imagined while reading Anne of Green Gables and Pride and Prejudice. Could it be that these literary stalwarts had led her astray? Liz tells the story of her own path to happiness, along the way seeking revenge on her literary heroes: Jo March has to cope with a soul-sucking job, Elizabeth Bennett shepherds a Duggar-size brood of kids, and Anne Shirley deals with a penny-pinching husband. But every comedy is balanced by tragedy. Angela was one of Liz’s closest friends, a kindred spirit who, at age thirty-one, was diagnosed with cancer. Before Angela, Liz was discontented. But it was the journey she took with this friend that made her realize that her house and its decorations and plumbing and dirty-clothes-covered Man Cave were not burdens to be tweaked and perfected, but blessings to be thankful for.

Enjoy this meticulously edited collection, dedicated to the holiday of gratefulness and forgiveness:_x000D_ An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott)_x000D_ Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner (Lucy Maud Montgomery)_x000D_ The Genesis of the Doughnut Club (Lucy Maud Montgomery)_x000D_ Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen (O. Henry)_x000D_ The Purple Dress (O. Henry)_x000D_ An English Dinner of Thanksgiving (George Eliot)_x000D_ Ezra's Thanksgivin' Out West (Eugene Field)_x000D_ Three Thanksgivings (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)_x000D_ John Inglefield's Thanksgiving (Nathaniel Hawthorne)_x000D_ Helen's Thanksgiving (Susan Coolidge)_x000D_ Thanksgiving at the Polls (Edward Everett Hale)_x000D_ Millionaire Mike's Thanksgiving (Eleanor H. Porter)_x000D_ The Thanksgiving of the Wazir (Andrew Lang)_x000D_ The Master of the Harvest (Mrs. Alfred Gatty)_x000D_ A Wolfville Thanksgiving (Alfred Henry Lewis)_x000D_ How We Kept Thanksgiving at Oldtown (Harriet Beecher Stowe)_x000D_ The Thanksgiving Guest (Nora Perry)_x000D_ The Thanksgiving Party and its Consequences (Mary Jane Holmes)_x000D_ The Night before Thanksgiving (Sarah Orne Jewett)_x000D_ Miss Heck's Thanksgiving Party (Ida Hamilton Munsell)_x000D_ A Dear Little Girl's Thanksgiving Holidays (Amy Ella Blanchard) _x000D_ Chanticleer: A Thanksgiving Story of the Peabody Family (Cornelius Mathews)_x000D_ The Kingdom Of Greedy (P. J. Stahl)_x000D_ Thankful (Mary E. Wilkins Freeman)_x000D_ Beetle Ring's Thanksgiving Mascot (Sheldon C. Stoddard)_x000D_ Mistress Esteem Elliott's Molasses Cake (Kate Upson Clark)_x000D_ The First Thanksgiving (Albert F. Blaisdell, Francis K. Ball)_x000D_ Thanksgiving at Todd's Asylum (Winthrop Packard)_x000D_ Wishbone Valley (R. K. Munkittrick)_x000D_ Patem's Salmagundi (E. S. Brooks)_x000D_ Mrs. November's Dinner Party (Agnes Carr)_x000D_ The Visit - A Story of The Children of The Tower (Maud Lindsay)_x000D_ The Story of Ruth and Naomi; Adapted from the Bible _x000D_ Bert's Thanksgiving (J. T. Trowbridge)_x000D_ How Obadiah Brought A Thanksgiving (Emily Hewitt Leland)_x000D_ The White Turkey's Wing (Sophie Swett)_x000D_ The Thanksgiving Goose (Fannie Brown)_x000D_ A Novel Postman (A. W. Wheildon)_x000D_ Ezra's Thanksgivin' Out West (Eugene Field)...