Holiday Adventures for Kids

By Michael J. Larson

Increase the holiday fun for your children or grandchildren by sharing a holiday story with them.

Holiday Adventures for Kids contains nine holiday stories: Valentines Day, April Fools Day, Easter, Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas and New Years Eve. Each story is filled with adventure and fun and dont be surprised when a lesson or moral awaits the stories conclusion.

Children age seven and under would enjoy being read to. However, eight year olds to early teens can enjoy reading the stories themselves.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Jul 21, 2014
• ISBN: 9781490843292

Michael J. Larson

The author has spent forty years teaching young people. As a biology teacher it is not surprising that he would choose two sparrows to remind us what happened in Joseph of Arimathea’s tomb on that first Easter. He and his wife Kathie live in western Minnesota on a small acreage with a large garden.

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ISBN: 978-1-4908-4283-7 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4908-4329-2 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014912012

WestBow Press rev. date: 7/18/2014

Contents

Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day The Valentine Card

Easter

Easter The Easter Bunny

April Fools’ Day

April Fools’ Day April Fools

Fourth of July

Fourth of July Firecrackers

Halloween

Halloween The Little Green Pumpkin

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Stuffing the Turkey

Hanukkah

Hanukkah The Hanukkah Bonfires

Christmas

Christmas Cole and the Christmas Coal

New Years

New Years The New Year’s Eve Rescue

Author and Illustrator Information

This book is dedicated to all children with the wish that their

holiday memories are fun-filled, joyful, and loving.

The Valentine Card

The steep, snow-covered hill was perfect for sledding. Tina and her five-year-old brother, Timmy, had made many trips down the hill on their red plastic sled.

My teacher told me to remind you to be good, teased Tina.

Mom is your teacher, giggled Timmy.

That was true. Tina was in the sixth grade, and her mother was her teacher.

Every day after school, Tina babysat her brother so her mother could correct papers and prepare for the next school day.

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Okay, Timmy, let’s set a new distance record on this slide!

Tina pushed off quickly, jumped on the sled, and crouched behind her brother.

Whee! the pair screamed as they whizzed down the hill.

As the sled slowed and stopped, their neighbor, Mr. Coleman, pulled up to the curb. As he stepped out of his van, he said, Hi, kids. Are you having fun in the snow?

You bet! replied Timmy, and the two children watched as Mr. Coleman carried a vase of flowers to his front door.

"Mrs. Coleman is going to be happy to