Joe Bev Releases "The 13 Days of Christmas" - 13 Holiday Radio Specials in 13 Days

The 13 different holiday specials are airing on public radio, streamed at BearManor Radio, and podcasts on demand at www.Waterlogg.com and other websites.

Veteran, award-winning radio producer Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev) is releasing 13 holiday radio specials over the next 13 days.

Bevilacqua is calling it "The 13 Days of Christmas".

"I just couldn't stop at 12 specials," admits the workaholic, who is currently recovering from prostate cancer.

The "Baker's Dozen" begins with The Cartoon Carnival Christmas Party. (See details below.)

The Cartoon Carnival podcast can be heard for free on iTunes, Stitcher and other websites, including Tunein: CARTOON-CARNIVAL All 15 Joe Bev hours can be heard podcast on demand for free  at http://www.waterlogg.com. 12 of the specials will be streamed for free over The BearManor Radio Network at: http://www.bearmanormedia.com/ radio/bearmanorradio.html Joe Bevilacqua Christmas Programming is available to all public radio stations via The Public Radio Exchange at: http://www.prx.org/series/22441-joe-bevilacqua-christmas-programming.

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Public radio stations running 
Joe Bev's specials include:
The Joe Bev Holiday Treat: WAMU
A Jazz-O-Rama Christmas Special: WVAS
A Jazz-O-Rama New Year: WVAS

1. Cartoon Carnival
The Cartoon Carnival Christmas Party
An hour of holiday joy, hosted by Joe Bev's early childhood versions of Willoughby and the Professor, presenting rare and classic holiday themed cartoon audio and music including Stan Freberg, Daws Butler, Marian Richmond in "Sleepy Santa," "The Christmas That Almost Never Was," and "Christmas Dragnet," plus music from "A Charlie Brown Christmas" by Vince Guaraldi, "The Chipmunk Song," Burl Ives sings "Have a Holly Jolly Christmas," Thurl Ravenscroft sings "You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch," and Sammy Davis Jr. sings "It's Christmas Time All Over the World."

2. The Joe Bev Experience: "Christmas Special"
3. The Jazz-O-Rama Hour: "A Jazz-O-Rama Christmas"
4. The J-OTR Show:  "The Christmas That Almost Never Was" & "Holmes Creepy Christmas"
5. Fred Frees Favorites: An Audio Book Sampler: "A Rockabilly Christmas", "The Christmas I Saved Macy's", "The Gift of the Magi"
6. Audio Classics Archive with Terry Salmonson:  "A Tour Of Santa's Workshop", "Lum and Abner's Christmas Story" and "Goodbye, 1941" with Jack Benny.
7. The Lost OTR Show: "The Big Show" with Tallulah Bankhead.
8. What's Cookin'? with Chef Steve Mendoza: How to Cook a Turkey
9. Aroma Thyme Radio with Chef Marcus Guilliano: Healthy Christmas and New Year
10. The Comedy-O-Rama Hour New Years Special: Camp Waterlogg: "A Year in Review"
11. The Jazz-O-Rama Hour: A Jazz-O-Rama New Year
12. The Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention Celebrity Interviews: James Darren and Robert Colbert from "Time Tunnel"
13. The Joe Bev Holiday Treat

Joe Bev
 (Joe Bevilacqua)

A full announcement of each show will be be released one per day until December 25.

More at http://www.joebev.com, http://www.dawsbutler.com, and http://www.comedyorama.com.

ALSO HEARD ON: WGTD, Wisconsin Public Radio, Sound Stages Radio, WHRO-Norfolk, VA, The 1920s Radio Network, Toon Radio, Pawling Public Radio, Radio New Zealand, Prairie Public, Moab Public Radio, KAZU, WNMU-FM, KREV, WMMT, KAWC, Red River Radio Network, Marfa Public Radio, KCUR, WEZU, WSNC, Troy Public Radio, WCMU Public Radio, WRPI, KUAT, KUHF, KVMR, WRFA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WHRV, KVMR, WUCF, WFIU, KRPS, KUT, WLRN, WTIP, WNCU, KEOS, KRUA, New Hampshire Public Radio, KGOU, Delta College Public Radio, WPSU, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KMXT, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WEFT, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, WRVO, WYSO, WMPG, WGUC, KRPS, WEKU, Oregon Public Broadcasting, WXXI, Yellowstone Public Radio, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, WHRV, WVAS, WDCB, WMUK, KCCK, WAMC, Here and Now, WGBH, KWIT, KDUR, WGUC, WJFF, WILL, WNPR, WCAI/WNAN, KTNA, WKSU, WKMS, AMU, KSTX (KPAC), KERA, WFCR, WUAL, KZYX, KCPW, Stan, Delmarva Public Radio, KRCB, WKNO, KSJD, KFSR, KUHF, KQED, Spokane Public Radio, WUIS, WEKU, WEPS, WNCU, WPSU, KUOW, KUHB, KTXK, Raven Radio, WQUB, WCOM, WMUB, KGLT, KDNK, KMXT, KSFR, WVPE, South Dakota Public Broadcasting - Radio, KSUT, KUVO, KDLG, KVNF, KUHB, Yellowstone Public Radio, WERU, KSRQ, WKSU, KRCB, GAUF, WUSM, WDNA, KUGS, WGCU, KFAI, WUTS, East Village Radio, KAOS, KBBI.

Waterlogg Productions has everything you need for the Holidays!

Let's get ready to Celebrate!

Waterlogg
Holiday Collection

• By: various authors
  Performed by: Joe Bevilacqua and a full cast
• Runtime: 5.2 Hours
• Recording: Audio Theater
• Release date: 12.1.2013
• Publisher: Blackstone Audio
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4829-4523-2

This collection of stories features holiday tales for both young and old!

The Christmas That Almost Never Was

It is Christmas Eve at the North Pole, and Santa Claus has lost his “remembery.” Now only a child who has been good for a full year can save Christmas! Producer Joe Bevilacqua has unearthed this vintage 1940s recording of the charming Yuletide children’s radio play, written by and starring Daws Butler, the voice of Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, and most of the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters. Also heard in this old time radio show is Don Messick, the voice of Boo Boo Bear, Ranger Smith, and Scooby Doo.

Daws Butler’s Halloween Happening

A new production of the classic radio play by the voice of Yogi Bear, Daws Butler!

Pedro’s Christmas Fables for Kids

Visit Santa at the North Pole, witness the birth of Jesus, go inside Noah’s Ark, and more with these timeless short stories that will charm and entertain your whole family! Produced with wonderful sound effects and music by veteran radio theater producer Joe Bevilacqua and performed by him and his wife, Lorie Kellogg, these Christmas stories include “The Best Choice,” “A Forced Christmas,” “Bula the Traveler,” “Christmas Presents,” “The Please-O-Meter,” and “The Little Christmas Star.” Other stories include “The Tidy Toys,” “The Match and the Toy Men,” “Problems on the Ark,” “A Colorful Head,” “A Drop of Water,” and “Balloon Acrobatics.”

Pedro’s Halloween Fables for Kids

Goblins, fairies, witches, and ghosts! These short Halloween themed stories by noted Spanish children’s author Pedro Pablo Sacristan will charm and entertain your whole family! Produced with wonderful sound effects and music by veteran radio theater producer Joe Bevilacqua, and performed by husband and wife team Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg, the stories include “The Creature in the Attic,” “A Different Take on Halloween,” “Waking Nightmare,” “The Evil Goblins,” “The Brave Boy and the Multicolored Ghost,” “The Monster in the Wardrobe,”“Forever a Monster,” “Bewitched Tongues,” The Funny-Looking Fairy,” and “The Evil Millisphore.”

A Waterlogg Double Feature

A Waterlogg double feature from husband and wife team Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg

First is “The Joe Bev Valentine Treat.” This is a charming hour of stories (real and fictional) about love hosted by veteran public radio producer Joe Bevilacqua.

The hour includes “Who’s Afraid of a Virginian’s Wrath,” “A Valentine from Graham Nash’s Mac,” “Ode to a Transfer Station or Love Poem for the Dump,” “A Mathematical Valentine,” “The Love of Lee the Horselogger,” “Marian the Librarian Finds Love at the Bookmobile,” and “Valentine Vignette.”

Second is “The Comedy-O-Rama Hour Valentine Special: Cupid Comes to Camp Waterlogg,” a comic one-hour radio play by Joe Bevilacqua, performed by Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg, plus Cousin Kenny Savoy, Jim Folly, Tom Giannazzo, and Reagan Bonjorno Leonard. Recorded in the woods of Napanoch, New York, and at Carolyn’s on Broadway in New York City.

The Gift of the Magi

O. Henry’s classic Christmas short story is charmingly told by Lorie Kellogg and Joe Bevilacqua. William Sydney Porter, known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer, whose short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and clever twists.

© 2010–2012 by Joe Bevilacqua, Waterlogg Productions

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The Best of Cartoon Carnival, Volume 2: 

The Holiday Specials

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Many of our projects are for sale on our website:
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"What is Waterlogg Audio?"

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Via Waterlogg Productions and Blackstone Audio, the husband and wife producing team created audio in many genres: radio drama and comedy, documentary, interview, biography, autobiography, and archival rarities.

On July 1, 2014, Joe Bevilacqua, aka Joe Bev, will release his 103rd audio title for Blackstone Audio: A Joe Bev Cartoon Collection - 7 Hours, 6 CDs.

Founded in 1987, Blackstone Audio is the largest independent audio book publisher in the United States, offering over 9,000 audiobooks. Blackstone selects titles which include exclusives, bestsellers, movie tie-ins. Blackstone releases 50-75 new audiobooks each month with simultaneous releases available on CD, MP3-CD, and digital formats.

Joe's Waterlogg Productions Podcasts:

Joe Bev & Lorie Kellogg Provide All the Voices for a Christmas Comedy-O-Rama Hour

Comedy-O-Rama #42:

"The Adoption
of Andy" 

part of The Joe Bev
3-Hour Block
starts at 

2:30 pm ET /
11:30 am PT, Saturday, Dec. 22 on CRAGG 

 http://www.cultradioagogo.com

A Christmas Comedy-O-Rama Saturday, December 22, 2:30 pm ET - listen online for free at cultradioagogo.com

This Saturday, December 22, at 2:30 pm ET / 11:30 am PT, "The Joe Bev 3-Hour Block" will include radio comedy, classic jazz and radio drama, starting with The Comedy-O-Rama Hour, then The Jazz-O-Rama Hour and The Joe Bev Experience following. Listen online for free at http://www.cultradioagogo.com.

Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg provide all the voices for this Saturday's Christmas Comedy-O-Rama Hour: "The Adoption of Andy," part 42 of their weekly "Camp Waterlogg serial.

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Husband and wife duo also improvise all the dialogue, based on a predetermined scenario.

Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev) describes the process as similar to how Larry David creates "Curb Your Enthusiasm".

"More like Larry David Meets Edgar Bergen," says Bev, who (together with Lorie Kellogg) improvise all the voices in each hour, including Sgt. Lefty, Ellis the Boatkeeper, Adam Maxwell, Andy, Woody, Abner Bibberman, Olive Pitts, Elise, Mrs. Terwilliger, Lkie, Courtney and others.

In "The Adoption of Andy," Abner has kidnapped Andy just as he is about to live with his new dad Sgt. Lefty.

The hour also includes the Christmas fables "A Forced Christmas" and "The Little Christmas Star" by Pedro Pablo Sacristan, voiced by Kellogg and Bev.

Joe & Lorie  performing in
The Vaudeville in the Catskills

Now in its 42th week on Cult Radio-A-Go-Go! (and its 102th since 2002 including the Sirius XM broadcasts), The Comedy-O-Rama Hour is produced by Joe Bevilacqua (Joe Bev).

The couple have been working together since they met in 1996. They recently toured with their Vaudeville in the Catskills stage show, in which they performed "Lambchops" the classic Burns and Allen comedy routine, and Bev MCd and performed the classic Abbott and Costello routine Who's On First? with Bob Greenberg. A second tour is planned for 2013 (TBA).

Archived Comedy-O-Rama Hours are now podcast on iTunes at:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-comedy-o-rama-hour/id572142422

Bevilacqua is a veteran radio theater producer and voice actor. He also works on stage and is the winner of the 2012 New York TANYS Award for Excellence in Acting. He has performed at the Improv, Caroline's on Broadway, Catch a Rising Star, the Comic Strip, opened for Uncle Floyd, worked with Al Franken, Shelley Berman, Lewis Black and Rick Overton. Joe has also MC'd shows featuring Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Mahr and Gilbert Gottfried. He has been regularly heard on National Public Radio and Sirius-XM Radio and has produced hundreds of hours of audiobooks.

Lorie Kellogg is the co-producer. Kellogg started her education at the Kansas City Art Institute. There she studied painting, printmaking, photography, commercial design and video. She continued to Graduate School at the California Institute of the Arts where she received her MFA in Film/Video. Lorie is a graphic designer creating websites, logos, newsletters, newspaper & magazine layout, package design, ad design, and edits video & audio.

More about Waterlogg Productions at waterlogg.com. 

The Art of Audio #9: "The Christmas I Saved Macy's"

The Joe Bev
Experience

The Art of Audio #9

"The Christmas I Saved Macy's"

I have told many holiday stories on radio over the years. (You can hear many of them on the bottom of this column today.) But the story I get the most requests for is this one I wrote and voiced, which aired on National Public Radio stations in December 2007. (See if you can find the mistake!)

The smell of cotton candy always makes me think of Christmas. It takes me back to the holiday season of 1964. I was three years old, Christmas shopping with my mom at Bamberger's department store in Newark, New Jersey.

Listen to "The Christmas I Saved Macy's"

The store was founded in 1893 by Louis Bamberger, and the building, which was erected in 1912, had a big clock on it. Unlike the sprawling malls of today, Bamberger's took up the entire building and sold everything from ladies underwear to model homes. 

In 1929, Bamberger's was purchased by R.H. Macy Co. of New York City, but it wasn't until 1986 that the name was changed to Macy's when they went national.

Today, there are Macy's across the country, eight of them within driving distance of my home in Napanoch. The store in the Galleria Mall in Middletown (NY) only became a Macy's this year.

My first Beatles album
bought in downtown Newark, NJ - 1964

And you can thank me for it. That's right. The same year The Beatles invaded America, I saved Bamberger's, so if it were not for me, the Macy's we know today may not have existed.

My mom had brought me to downtown Newark so I could see my dad, who was a policeman, directing traffic, white gloves and all, at the intersection of Market and Halsey Streets, where Bamberger's was located.

My black Buster Brown shoes lifted off the sidewalk, as we passed the animated outdoor window displays of Santa and his elves in their workshop, my mom clutching my hand and shoving me through the revolving door into a sea of legs scurrying frantically around me.

In 1964, nearly every kid wore Buster Browns!

After a nondescript visit with Santa, my mom took me into a world I had before never seen—the ladies lounge. It was a handsome place with real wood paneling, glass ashtrays on ornate brass stands and leather chairs in which sat seven or eight Jackie Kennedy look-alikes, wearing pillbox hats, half-jackets and white gloves. They had all kicked off their spiked healed shoes and were rubbing their stockinged feet in between puffs of their cigarettes. A sea of smoke floated above.

My mom sat down, lit up a Marlboro and kicked off her spikes, as I occupied myself by sitting on the carpet and pretending all those shoes were racing cars. 

Suddenly, I heard a woman scream. I looked up and saw flames coming out of one of the ashtray stands. The woman kicked over the stand and jumped up onto her leather chair. Now the carpet was on fire, too. All the woman screamed and jumped up.

A few years earlier, I wasn't so brave!

“Somebody put it out!” urged one woman.

“I can't! I don't have my shoes on!” replied another.

“Me either!” added a third.

I actually do not remember what my mother was doing at this moment, but I do remember the woman who pointed to me as she suggested, “Get that kid to do it! He's got shoes on!”

I stood up and quickly stamped out the fire. To shouts of “Thank God” and sighs of relief, the women descended upon me, lifted me up and passed me around the room while they hugged and kissed me. 

Then, the woman who had suggested my act of heroism picked me up, kissed my cheek and smiled. 

Her makeup smelled just like a delicious cotton candy.

  

 

MORE OF MY CHRISTMAS STORIES:

Buy my NEWEST Christmas stories!

Listen to "The Joe Bev Holiday Treat"

 

Listen to "Rockabilly Christmas" with Ray Campi

Listen to "The Cartoon Carnival Christmas Party"

Listen to"The Misadventures of
Sherlock Holmes" Christmas Special

Buy all 10 half-hours of
"The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes"

Best to you all,

Joe Bev.

Joe Bevilacqua is a veteran award-winning actor, writer, author and producer. His audio is available at Amazon, iTunes, and Audible for Kindle, Blackberry, Android, iPhone, iPod or iPad download, or CD purchase or rental. Find out more!

FREE AUDIO - DAY 12 - CELEBRATE the 12 days of Christmas with Waterlogg Prod.

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Enjoy Christmas with the family...

We are posting each Pedro story for free
for the 12 days before Christmas. 

 

12th DAY: "Balloon Acrobatics"  A contest of bugs and balloons.

(click to hear the free audio)  12 of 12

 Visit Santa at the North Pole, witness the birth of Baby Jesus, go inside Noah's Ark and more - with these 12 timeless short stories, by noted Spanish children's author Pedro Pablo Sacristan. They'll charm and entertain your whole family! Produced with wonderful sound effects and music by veteran radio-theater producer Joe Bevilacqua, and performed by husband and wife team Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg. 

Christmas stories include: "The Best Choice", "A Forced Christmas", "Bula the Traveler", "Christmas Presents", "The Please-o-Meter", and "The Little Christmas Star." There are also the stories "The Tidy Toys", "The Match and the Toy Men", "Problems on the Ark", "A Colorful Head", "A Drop of Water", and "Balloon Acrobatics".

AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: Pedro Pablo Sacristan is back with yet another collection of Spanish stories for children, translated into English. And just in time for the holidays, this collection includes 12 whimsical stories with a Christmas theme. This is my third Sacristan anthology and I have to say that I have enjoyed them all very much. Sacristan's stories are written in a simple style that children will love. And parents will love the important life lessons their children will gain from these tales.  Audiobook Reviews from Audiobook-Heaven
©2011 Pedro Pablo Sacristan (P)2011 Pedro Pablo Sacristan, Joe Bevilacqua

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the 10th DAY's story was
: "A Drop of Water"
Are you a dirty or a clean drop??

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 Visit Santa at the North Pole, witness the birth of Baby Jesus, go inside Noah's Ark and more - with these 12 timeless short stories, by noted Spanish children's author Pedro Pablo Sacristan. They'll charm and entertain your whole family! Produced with wonderful sound effects and music by veteran radio-theater producer Joe Bevilacqua, and performed by husband and wife team Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg. 

Christmas stories include: "The Best Choice", "A Forced Christmas", "Bula the Traveler", "Christmas Presents", "The Please-o-Meter", and "The Little Christmas Star." There are also the stories "The Tidy Toys", "The Match and the Toy Men", "Problems on the Ark", "A Colorful Head", "A Drop of Water", and "Balloon Acrobatics".

AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: Pedro Pablo Sacristan is back with yet another collection of Spanish stories for children, translated into English. And just in time for the holidays, this collection includes 12 whimsical stories with a Christmas theme. This is my third Sacristan anthology and I have to say that I have enjoyed them all very much. Sacristan's stories are written in a simple style that children will love. And parents will love the important life lessons their children will gain from these tales.  Audiobook Reviews from Audiobook-Heaven
©2011 Pedro Pablo Sacristan (P)2011 Pedro Pablo Sacristan, Joe Bevilacqua

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Pedro Pablo Sacristan's Spanish Christmas Stories for Children:
Translated into English

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We are posting each Pedro story for free
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the 10th DAY's story was

"A Colorful Head"
What happens when a boy is not happy with his hair color?

(click to buy)  10 of 12

 Visit Santa at the North Pole, witness the birth of Baby Jesus, go inside Noah's Ark and more - with these 12 timeless short stories, by noted Spanish children's author Pedro Pablo Sacristan. They'll charm and entertain your whole family! Produced with wonderful sound effects and music by veteran radio-theater producer Joe Bevilacqua, and performed by husband and wife team Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg. 

Christmas stories include: "The Best Choice", "A Forced Christmas", "Bula the Traveler", "Christmas Presents", "The Please-o-Meter", and "The Little Christmas Star." There are also the stories "The Tidy Toys", "The Match and the Toy Men", "Problems on the Ark", "A Colorful Head", "A Drop of Water", and "Balloon Acrobatics".

AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: Pedro Pablo Sacristan is back with yet another collection of Spanish stories for children, translated into English. And just in time for the holidays, this collection includes 12 whimsical stories with a Christmas theme. This is my third Sacristan anthology and I have to say that I have enjoyed them all very much. Sacristan's stories are written in a simple style that children will love. And parents will love the important life lessons their children will gain from these tales.  Audiobook Reviews from Audiobook-Heaven
©2011 Pedro Pablo Sacristan (P)2011 Pedro Pablo Sacristan, Joe Bevilacqua

NEW REVIEW & FREE AUDIO - DAY 8 - CELEBRATE the 12 days of Christmas with Waterlogg Prod.

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8th DAY was: 

"The Match and the Toy Men" Listen to Your Mother!

(click to hear to buy stories) 8 of 12

Visit Santa at the North Pole, witness the birth of Baby Jesus, go inside Noah's Ark and more - with these 12 timeless short stories, by noted Spanish children's author Pedro Pablo Sacristan. They'll charm and entertain your whole family! Produced with wonderful sound effects and music by veteran radio-theater producer Joe Bevilacqua, and performed by husband and wife team Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg. 

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Christmas stories include: "The Best Choice", "A Forced Christmas", "Bula the Traveler", "Christmas Presents", "The Please-o-Meter", and "The Little Christmas Star." There are also the stories "The Tidy Toys", "The Match and the Toy Men", "Problems on the Ark", "A Colorful Head", "A Drop of Water", and "Balloon Acrobatics".

(Audiobook Reviews from Audiobook-Heaven)

Spanish Christmas
Stories for Children
(Audiobook Reviews from
Audiobook-Heaven)

AUDIOBOOK REVIEW:Pedro Pablo Sacristan is back with yet another collection of Spanish stories for children, translated into English. And just in time for the holidays, this collection includes 12 whimsical stories with a Christmas theme. This is my third Sacristan anthology and I have to say that I have enjoyed them all very much. Sacristan's stories are written in a simple style that children will love. And parents will love the important life lessons their children will gain from these tales.
©2011 Pedro Pablo Sacristan (P)2011 Pedro Pablo Sacristan, Joe Bevilacqua

Let me walk you through a few of my favorites from this collection:

In The Best Choice, a little boy learns that presents are fun, but sometimes they can distract us from the really important things in life.

In The Little Christmas Star, the angels must choose one special star to illuminate a very special event that is taking place on Earth. The brightest and most beautiful star in Heaven thinks the job is too small, so the angels must turn to someone else.

In The Tidy Toys, a little boy likes to play with all his toys and not put them away when he's done, until his toys finally take it upon themselves to teach him an important lesson.

In Problems on the Ark, the large boat suddenly develops a leak! None of the animals are able to stop the leak on their own; it looks like everyone will have to work together.

And that's just for starters. In all, there are twelve charming stories, each with an important lesson for young and old alike.

Handling the narration duties for Sacristan's stories once again is the husband and wife team of Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg. You'll enjoy Joe and Lorie as they create literally dozens of silly and engaging voices that bring the stories to life. Your kids will feel right at home with the cartoon-style characterizations.

Spanish Christmas Stories for Children is just the thing to occupy your young ones on a rainy (or snowy) afternoon. Better yet, sit down and listen along with them. You won't regret spending some time with them, and you won't regret these stories either. It's fun for the whole family.


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