review by Stacie Skinner
Louisville.com
December 2003
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With several authors giving stories and input to the final creation of A Kentucky Christmas, editor George Ella Lyon creates an atmosphere throughout the book including evolution of the holiday, Christmas. Including recipes, poems and short stories, A Kentucky Christmas can be read as a novel or as several short stories but one thing is for sure it is hard to put down.
To put it plainly, A Kentucky Christmas has made its mark and will be cherished for Kentuckians for years to come.
Description:
A celebration of holiday poetry, fiction, essays, recipes, and songs by more than sixty of the Bluegrass state’s finest writers. Gathered here are writings from some of the legendary voices of Kentucky—and the nation—as well as original Christmas stories and poetry from some of the state’s emerging talents. Among the contributors to this handsome collection are Kentucky’s visionaries, storytellers, historians, singers, cooks, children’s authors, and poets, including all five Kentucky Poet Laureates. A delight for anyone interested in Kentucky literature, history, or traditions, A Kentucky Christmas promises to be a wonderful holiday gift, a treasured family keepsake, and a necessary addition for libraries and for personal collections.
George Ella Lyon is the award-winning author of more than thirty books for children and adults, including With a Hammer for My Heart ,Catalpa ,Borrowed Children , and Mother to Tigers . She lives in Lexington, Kentucky.
A Kentucky Christmas
Kentucky / Holiday
Edited by George Ella Lyon
Penguin Putnam
416 pages
$28.99
kentuckypress.com
