WAITING FOR CHRISTMAS vol.2
An Advent Story Calendar
one story a day from December 1st to 25th
by Annalena Valenti, with the collaboration of the MammaOca team
- size: cms 21 x 30 / in. 8.27 x 11.69
- pages: 128 colour pages, endpapers included
- binding: thread-sewn, soft or hardbound
- cover: matt art paper, 4 colours, laminated, with flaps
- publication: Fall 2024
Waiting for Christmas vol.2 is a collection of 25 Advent stories for adults and children, edited by MammaOca.
In this second Christmas book, the story of what man has always desired and sought is renewed. The longing for happiness that shapes our hearts and constantly makes us yearn for something beyond limits, something that goes ‘beyond’, often described as impossible, a senseless question not to be asked, becomes incarnate, possible, and near with the birth of Jesus. And an extraordinary existence finds meaning and purpose. The impossible exists, as long as goodness is desired, say the voices of these stories, which aim to speak to our lives. Lambs and wolves, little girls and drummers, nightingales and roses, shepherds and kings. Even the Angels ‘rent a house next to ours’.
In the book, you will find Christmas legends by H.L. Chevrillon, G.M. Noventa, stories by A.M. Cà nopi, F. Cavallari, C. Collodi, V. De Domenico, G. Deledda, G. Guareschi, A. Nanetti, R. Sawyer, M. Twain. Poems by F. Chesterton, G. D’Annunzio, E. Dickinson, G. Gozzano, B. Pasternak. Traditional Christmas carols by K.K. Davis, A.M. De Liguori, J.M. Neale, M. Praetorius. Fairy tales by H.C. Andersen… And a recipe.
The illustrations were made in 1922 in Vienna by students not yet fifteen years old from the Children’s Drawing and Painting School of the Austrian painter Franz Cižek.
Waiting for Christmas 2. Advent Calendar or, as they wrote about the last book, the only Advent Calendar that talks about Advent. Twenty-five new stories not to forget, here and now, the Protagonist of the Feast.
A collection of author’s tales, poems, songs, fairy tales and legends from all over the world, to be read as a family, with children, one a day, from 1 to 25 December, in anticipation of Christmas. To be explored while being fascinated by the evocative illustrations full of detail by the students of the Vienna Children’s Drawing and Painting School of Franz Cižek.
