The Solid Mandala by White Patrick

The Solid Mandala by White Patrick

Special Letter to Santa

Magical AND Merry Christmas tale about Giving and Believing in the spirit of Kindness all year long.

When a sweet girl, Brooke Lynn, sends a personal letter to Santa Claus, she hopes and prays he will receive her special request for her friend. Endless visions of elves, flying reindeer, and St. Nick delivering gifts swirl in her head. Did this curious youngster hear Santa Claus late last night or was it all a dream? Rising early to the excitement of the day, she tiptoes down the stairs and spies a red box under the tree marked Brooke Lynn. Daring to peek inside, she slowly lifts the lid. Will the gift of helping others shine through?

Mom said, We'll visit Santa soon,

so, Brooke Lynn make your list by Noon.

I wrote a letter last night, too,

from me to Santa for review.

Excerpt from My Lil' Santa Visit

Mistletoe, holly, and yuletide festivities are delicately woven throughout each vibrant illustration accompanying this sparkly rhyming story.

If you loved other books inspiring Kindness and Giving such as My Magical Gifts, The Crayons' Christmas, or The Night Before Christmas, then this book will be the perfect holiday present Great fun for Early Readers.

Patrick White (1912-1990) was born in England in 1912, when his parents were in Europe for two years; at six months he was taken back to Australia, where his father owned a sheep station. When he was thirteen, he went to school in England, to Cheltenham, where it was understood, the climate would be temperate and a colonial acceptable. Neither proved true, and after four rather miserable years there he went to King's College, Cambridge, where he specialized in languages. After leaving the university he settled in London, determined to become a writer. His first novel, Happy Valley, was published in 1939 and his second, The Living and the Dead, in 1941. During the war he was an RAF Intelligence Officer in the Middle East and Greece. After the war he returned to Australia.

His novels include The Aunt's Story (1946), The Tree of Man (1956), Voss (1957), Riders in the Chariot (1961), The Solid Mandala (1966), The Eye of the Storm(1973), A Fringe of Leaves (1976), and The Twyborn Affair (1979). He also published two collections of short stories, The Burnt Ones (1964) and The Cockatoos (1974), which incorporates several short novels, a collection of novellas, Three Uneasy Pieces (1987), and his autobiography, Flaws in the Glass (1981). He also edited Memoirs of Many in One (1986). In 1973 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Upon his death, The Times wrote, Patrick White did more than any other writer to put Australian literature on the international map.... His tormented oeuvre is that of a great and essentially modern writer.

Thomas Keneally has won international acclaim for his novels Schindler's Ark, Confederates, Gossip from the Forest, Playmaker, Woman of the Inner Sea, and A River Town. He is most recently the author of the biography American Scoundrel: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780140029758
ISBN 10	0140029753
Title	The Solid Mandala
Author	White Patrick
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	1974-05-30
Number of pages	320
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.