Icicle’’s First Christmas

Icicle is a young Emperor Penguin who lives on the southern tip of Argentina. She is very shy and is about to experience her first Christmas with her colony. All the penguins create ornaments and decorations for the Celebration Tree on Christmas Eve and Icicle does not know what to make. This is compounded by the fact that she must explain to the colony why she made the decoration. She does not know what to do until her mother tells her the story of the first Christmas. Come walk with Icicle as she travels around the peninsula trying to decide what to make and figure out how she can tell everyone how she feels about Christmas.

R. W. Thompson received his B. S. in Education from Westfield State University before embarking on a career teaching U. S. History, World History, Latin America History and World Geography at the middle school level for fifteen years, and coached football, baseball and wrestling at the high school and junior college level. During that time period he earned his Master of Educational Administration degree and served as an elementary principal in a school with grades K-8 for seventeen years. He is now retired and lives with his wife in Westfield, MA. Icicle’s First Christmas is his fifth children’s book. The others are; Waddle’s Big Adventure, Daydreaming, A Baseball Story, Mrs. Mouse’s Christmas and The Crystal Butterfly. They also are published by Create Space Publishing and are available at Book Club Bookstore & More, 2 Main St, Westfield, MA, The Rinnova Arts Building on Elm St in Westfield, www.amazon.com and www.barnesandnoble.com. He also has had several articles and short stories published in SOUTHWOODS; A journal for Country Living and poems published by The National Library of Poetry Contact: Robert W. Thompson, (413) 562-6271, robert.thompson58@verizon.net Website: www.rwthompson-author.com