Reindeer Dust Book Review

I received Reindeer Dust Book free to facilitate this review. Affiliate links may be in this posting. Thanks for supporting my blog.

I love celebrating Christmas with my family and all the old traditions that we keep during the holiday season. These traditions, beliefs, and customs have been passed down from generation to generation. My family has a holiday reading tradition that we practice. We read holiday books every year at Christmas Eve. I also love creating new traditions and learning about others as well. New traditions can be just as fun as old ones. For our old tradition of our book reading as a family we received a new book this year called Reindeer Dust. This book also has a fun, new tradition within its pages that we have not heard of until now.

Reindeer Dust written by Kate Dwyer and illustrated by Joanne Lew-Vriethoff is a super adorable interactive book about another wonderful Christmas tradition that you can do with your kids this year. At first I thought that this book was all about how the reindeer were sprinkled with magic dust to help them fly (you know, like fairy dust), but as I read the story I came to understand. In this sweet story Santa is so busy he forgets to feed the reindeer on Christmas Eve. When Santa goes out in his sleigh with the reindeer in the lead, they are met with some heavy fog and are very hungry and tired. A clever little boy notices the weather and devises a plan with a recipe of the reindeers' favorite food ingredients (oats for energy, bran for strength, and brown sugar to make it sparkle) to help point Santa and his reindeer in the right direction so that even in the fog he can find the houses.

Image source: reindeerdust.com

The rhyming tale and cute illustrations make this book a wonderful story to read for the Christmas season to promote literacy, but that isn't all that this book has to offer. Along with the lyrical story and illustrations it has the actual recipe for the dust which makes 15-20 servings and a short poem that can be read on Christmas Eve. as the children are sprinkling their reindeer dust. This sprinkling of Reindeer Dust on the ground outside your home so that Santa's reindeer can find you is a special holiday tradition that encourages family togetherness and helps bring the excitement of Christmas and believing in the magic of the holiday back to the children.

So go ahead, sprinkle a bit of magic into the holidays with this fun new family tradition!

Be Social:
Websites: www.reindeerdust.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/sparklingreindeerdust
Twitter: @reindeer_dust

BUY IT


DISCLOSURE/DISCLAIMER: I received this product for free to review. My thoughts are mine and my family's own opinion and have not been altered by anyone else. I did not receive any other compensation for doing this review. Affiliate links may be in this posting. Thanks for supporting my blog.

ReindeerCam, Track Santa With NORAD, Lighting of the National Christmas Tree, etc.

• ReindeerCam is a fun website that lets your little ones see Santa's reindeer. They can even see Santa feed the reindeer at 10 am EST and again at 5 pm EST. My kids love to watch them and so do I. They are adorable!

• Track where Santa goes during Christmas to deliver gifts with the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). Volunteers at the Tracks Santa Operations Center in Colorado Springs are monitoring Jolly Old St. Nick's progress around the world since 1955. You can also track his journey with Google's Santa Tracker.

•  You can watch the lighting of the National Christmas Tree and see the White House Christmas Tree.
 

• At Elf Yourself you can magically transform yourself into a dancing elf :)

• Some families have adopted an Elf On The Shelf. The pose-able elf figurine watches over your kids in the day time and reports back to Santa at night whether they were naughty or nice. You hide it at night and have your children find it in the morning. You can also pose it in so many different ways before your kids wake up. Children love playing hide and seek with the elf and it is a great discipline tool for parents during the holiday for their kids.

• Get a FREE personalized video from Santa for your child at Portable North Pole.

What websites do you love to visit during the holidays?  

DISCLOSURE/DISCLAIMER: I am posting about these fun websites because I love them and thought you might enjoy them too. My thoughts are mine and my family's own opinion and have not been altered by anyone else. I did not receive any compensation for posting about these.