This delightfully quirky celebration of the world's favourite holiday reveals the strange and curious side of Christmas, from how Rudolph got his red nose to what the Star of Bethlehem might really have been, to the real cost of those "Twelve Days of Christmas". Weird Birthday: a random date, a quirky star and no room at the Inn. Weird Santa: will work for just mince pies and a glass of sherry! Weird Trees: lights, tinsel...action! Weird Traditions: flaming pants elephant consomme and Christmas pickles. Weird Tidings: tinsel town, jingle babies and the odds of having a white Christmas. "Weird Festivites: Christmas" sleighings, Lady Santas, kicking the Yuletide bucket. This is a gift book with a fresh approach: not a saccharine Christmas book - this one is filled with weird facts, trivia, stories and lore. Entertaining, illustrated non-fiction, packaged in the Black Dog & Leventhal tradition, it is a great value gift: a chunky hardback at a paperback price, illustrated with photographs plus strange and wonderful artwork by Lisa Weber.
- ISBN10 1579124763
- ISBN13 9781579124762
- Publish Date 1 November 2005
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 4 December 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English