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Christmas With Grandma Elsie (The Original Elsie Classics, Book 14) (Bk.14)

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This was a wonderful Elsie book with many thrills in it.
Again, like the last few books, the story centers on Lulu Raymond---Elsie's granddaughter.

The holidays have arrived and all of the family has grouped together at Grandma Elsie's house for the fun. There's snowball fights, sleigh rides, charades, stories, and other amusement provided by ventriloquist, Cousin Ronald. There's even quite a bit of suspense!

The book closes after some of the most dramatic events draw to an end. But I'm left longing to continue into the next book.
I enjoyed each and every chapter, as something new is always happening.
This is one of my favorites!

There's an awful lot of religious dogma in this book. I managed to get through 45% of the book before I just couldn't take it any more. Mormons, in particular will not appreciate this book because the author believes they are as ungodly as heathens and Christians need to pray to save them from their ways. If you can wade through the religious nonsense, there's really a sweet story there. Everyone loves everyone, the parents are teaching their children to have respect for themselves, their elders, and for others. The author acknowledges that the U.S. owes the "Indians" and the "colored" people, the first because we took their land and the later because we enslaved them. However, because of the era this book was written in, all the servants are "colored" and their speech is written in the old school manner - "ye'sir" "ye'sim" - you get the picture. Although this family believes it's better to serve the lord than to go into any other business, they are somehow very wealthy. There's a lot of talk about just how wealthy they are, but that they don't squander their money on frivolous things and must give to others who don't have their privileges.

The Christmas at Grandma Elsie's was over and done with before the book was half way finished and then it dives deeply into religious dogma, and when I found I could no longer read around it, decided not to finish the book.

Only for the deeply religious.

I'm sorry, but this book was too preachy...and I go to church every Sunday. When the dad wishes all his children to be missionaries, when the book calls all Mormons evil, when non-believers are called heathens, etc. It just gets too judgmental and intolerant, it totally turned me off. The kids are so scared to do anything wrong and are so unrealistically "good". It was not my kinda book...ICK!!!

First, I love the fact that I was able to download this using my Kindle app for FREE! I've read several reviews for this book that said it was 'too preachy' or 'too much religious dogma'. This book contains many scriptures, but everything written comes straight from the Bible. I thoroughly enjoyed this lovely Christmas story! Although it is fiction, it goes to show that families can be close and adults and children alike can chose to act/think/speak the right things, according to what the Lord would be pleased with. Again, I found this to be a lovely Christmas story that touches the heart!