We spend all year trying to keep our children nice and calm, relaxed and peaceful and then whip them up into a frenzy for Christmas Day. Fortunately it wasn't quite that crazy, we've all had a round of colds or related symptoms, so it was a nice pleasant family day with some added snoozing.
As expected, there were books and we've already read a few throughout the day. Bedtime was relatively normal, the excitement of the morning had been overtaken by tiredness and some new books to look at.
First up was Peanuts: Merry Christmas Snoopy!
Tiddler
I picked up What a Wonderful World in a bookshop shortly after it was released. I adored the illustrations by Tim Hopgood, he really has done a magnificent job bringing this joyous song to life as a picture book. It is the Bob Thiele/George David Weiss song made famous by Louis Armstrong. I refrained from reading it in the style of Satchmo. It is a little tricky trying to read a song that I'm so familiar with but I managed it. Linus seemed to enjoy it, although he was a little tired by that point. The copy we have has a CD attached, with the Louis Armstrong song and a reading by Sophie Aldred.
The illustrations are awesome, the book would make an ideal new baby gift. I could even see the pictures making up a series of wall art.
As an extra Christmas bonus, there's a video from Satch below, oh yeeeeeah!
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