Hahaha! I also like this cute tidbit, mostly because I love the illustrations! How strangely surreal is that to have the dead celebrate the Christmas Holidays with you.Ĭhristmas Quizzes and Yuletide Recipes. That should challenge Deary's little suitcase of facts. To those who are born on the 25th of December, could you tell me if this historical trivia is true? A musician friend whose birthday falls on the 25th informed me that he has already seen a lot of ghosts in his 40 something of existence, both dead AND alive. Here are several that caught my attention: Spine-tingling true savage Christmas stories, Christmas crimes, and the truth about various Christmas characters (from Saint Anastasia to Saint Stephen of Sweden to Charles Dickens) was shared with such gruesome relish.ĭid You Noel? One of my favorite parts of the book is when Deary inserted little sidenotes on trivia related to Christmas. Christmas has been as cruel as any other day really.Ī look at the last century from 1917 to 2004 should be enough to convince anyone. All the rotten, woebegone events that transpired during Christmas across the decadesĬhristmas is a time of happiness and joy – that’s what they say, but some people have had a horrible Christmas in the past. The book is rich with Yuletide details ranging from what you can rudely shout out to carol singers (called “croaking old crows or begging brats by Derry) to make them stop the true story behind the “three kings” (were there really THREE kings?) historical timeline of how Christmas was celebrated mostly in Britain, Europe, and the Americas curious Christmas customs and all the rotten things that happened during Christmas day through the years. What makes Terry Deary (and Martin Brown) so amazing and a league of their own is that they do their writing (and illustrations) with so much good humor, hip quasi-blackness of character, and with such incisive understanding of which sick detail would stick to most children’s minds. I am aware that there is that leaning towards books that educate and literary works that bring added information and knowledge to children in SG. My first thought as I was reading this book is that it is something that my teacher-students in Singapore (and a lot of Singaporean Historical Timeline of how Christmas was celebrated through the years Bah! Humbug!”Ĭhock-ful of Facts, Historical Tidbits, and Gory Morsels. People haven’t finished paying for last Christmas! One day of burnt turkey and shrivelled pudding in return for three hundred and sixty-four days of debt. “When it comes to this Christmas a lot of Terry Deary echoed Mr Scrooge’s sentiments about Christmas when he pointed out: I got my copy during the Singapore Books Warehouse Sale for only 4SGD.
PictureBook Challenge Update: 1 out of 72īah! Humbug! is the perfect description for this fabulously witty, sordid, and very unChristmas-like book by the Horrible Histories Creator Terry Deary aptly entitled “Horrible Christmas.” For those of you who have an aversion to anything Christmassy, adopting a supposedly-chic Scrooge attitude, this book is perfect for you.
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