Books with author Anthony Jones

Have you ever wondered where Father Christmas, the Elves and the Reindeer live when it isn’t Christmas, or how they manage to deliver presents to all of the children in the world in a single night?If you live in a house that hasn’t got a chimney or has a roaring fire on Christmas Eve, how does Santa get in and out?Read Billy Bonkel in the Grooldome and discover the answers to these mysteries.

The time has been, but happily exists no longer, when it would have been necessary to offer an apology for such a book as this. In those days it was not held that Beauty is its own excuse for being; on the contrary, a spurious utilitarianism reigned supreme in literature, and fancy and imagination were told to fold their wings, and travel only in the dusty paths of every-day life. Fairy tales, and all such flights into the region of the supernatural, were then condemned as merely idle things, or as pernicious occupations for faculties that should be always directed to serious and profitable concerns. But now we have cast off that pedantic folly, let us hope for ever. We now acknowledge that innocent amusement is good for its own sake, and we do not affect to prove our advance in civilisation by our incapacity to relish those sportive creations of unrestricted fancy that have been the delight of every generation in every land from times beyond the reach of history. The materials of the following Collection have been carefully chosen from more than a hundred volumes of the fairy lore of all nations;

“I wonder when in the world you're going to do anything, Rudolf?” said my brother's wife. “My dear Rose,” I answered, laying down my egg-spoon, “why in the world should I do anything? My position is a comfortable one. I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one's income is ever quite sufficient, you know), I enjoy an enviable social position: I am brother to Lord Burlesdon, and brother-in-law to that charming lady, his countess. Behold, it is enough!” “You are nine-and-twenty,” she observed, “and you've done nothing but-” “Knock about? It is true. Our family doesn't need to do things.”

As most toddler parents can relate, one of the biggest recent developments I've seen in my 3 year-old daughter, Ashlyn, has been that of an ever-inquisitive mind - noted by the hypnotic flow of a few signature questions that 10x whenever we leave our home.“Mommy, Daddy What Is This?” is inspired by our family visits to the grocery store accompanied by Ashlyn, with the title paying homage to her most trusted go-to catchphrase. As a full time dad-chef, I personally make a lot of grocery store runs with Ashlyn in tow, constantly exposing her to and familiarizing her with an array of produce - ranging from the everyday Gala Apple to and exotic variety of Roamnesco.My vision with "Mommy, Daddy What Is This?" is to share a food-centric educational system that my family & I have adopted via our produce section escapades - highlighting one produce item per letter in the alphabet, from A to Z. My greater mission is to inspire fellow toddler parents to re-imagine grocery trips with their children as exciting educational journeys that also happen to stock the fridge (and lunchboxes) with healthy and delicious meals and snacks!