Christmas is a special time at Pumpkin House, where two dolls named Sethany Ann and Nicey Melinda live. Every Christmas they invite their friends to join them for an elegant dinner party and a marionette show. The dolls have fun getting ready for their party: they send out invitations to their guests by Sparrow Post, decorate their very own Christmas tree with silver nutmegs and golden pears, and prepare doll-size cookies and other treats for the party. Then at 'candlelight-time' on Christmas Day the guests begin to arrive, and the evening isn't over until the last carol has been sung around the tree.



Tasha Tudor's delightful tale captures all the charm and magic of an old-fashioned Christmas shared with your dearest friends. Beautifully illustrated in nostalgic watercolor paintings, this book will be treasured by generations to come. The sweet little picture above is a Christmas flyer from the Jenny Wren Press that would be sent out to subscribers near Christmas Time. You can see the little books in the picture and the little cards near the sitting doll in her pretty calico blue gown, she may be gathering her notes together to send them off buy Sparrow Post. This very cute Holiday book called Samantha's Surprise was illustrated by Tasha Tudor's daughter Bethany Tudor, such a cute little book with the ducks and animals around the tree, timeless.