Waiting for Christmas: A Story about the Advent Calendar

by Kathleen Long Bostrom

Overview

Little children throughout the world wait impatiently for Christmas to arrive. As parents know, it can seem as if the days just crawl by. Now your family can learn and put to use Advent traditions from the country of Germany during the Christmas season. No doubt mothers have long been inventing ways to keep young children occupied during the Advent season—like Gerhard Lang’s mother, who in the mid-1800s helped her young son count the days on a calendar of cookies. In 1908, the grownup Gerhard, a printer, created the first commercial Advent calendar, twenty-four tiny pictures in the form of a calendar, from his fond memories. Waiting for Christmas tells the story of the young Gerhard—a story children everywhere will recognize as their own—and teaches us that we must wait patiently as we prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780310866992
Publisher:	Zonderkidz
Publication date:	01/05/2010
Series:	Traditions of Faith from Around the World
Sold by:	HarperCollins Publishing
Format:	eBook
Pages:	40
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

About the Author

Kathleen Long Bostrom is a full-time writer who previously served as an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church USA. She has published more than fifty books that have sold over two million copies and are printed in thirty languages, including Russian, Indonesian, and Afrikaans. She is a prior president of the Presbyterian Writers Guild and holds membership in the Author's Guild, PEN, and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.

In 2013, Kathleen was named the Distinguished Alumna from her alma mater, Princeton Theological Seminary, due to the widespread reach of her books for children. She was awarded the David Steele Distinguished Writer Award in 2014, the most prestigious writer's award given by the Presbyterian Church (USA). Kathleen taught a class on writing for children at the 2016 Buechner Writer's Workshop held at Princeton in June 2016 and is a sought-after speaker and workshop leader around the country.

Her husband Greg is also an ordained pastor and they live in Carlsbad, California, two miles from the ocean and near their three grown children who are all in the film business in Los Angeles.