Impish
The Christmas Elf
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All through the summer and into the spring, Light dances and skips and glimmers and sings, Across the frozen tundra where ice forever rests, Where reindeer and polar bears are permanent guests. Gently the light fades into long, lasting night, For a deep winter’s rest, to let the frost bite. As bleak and desolate as a ten-thousand-foot hole Dark’s a six-month-visitor at the North Pole. For hundreds of years, Impish dreaded this black, Cold and lifeless, it filled every crack. And with it brought sadness to this little elf; For Impish found happiness in light itself. Until one bleak night a thought popped in her head, As she shivered ‘neath the covers in her tiny elf bed.
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About the Book
Impish the Christmas Elf is tired of the long, dark winters that overwhelm the North Pole. In an attempt to lighten both her mood and dreary days as a gift-wrapping elf, she develops a ploy to make Christmas gift-giving even more fun for good boys and girls. What does Impish have up her tricky elf sleeve? ... And, will she pull off one of her famously impish tricks on you this Christmas?
About the Author
Amanda McIlwain Hauser wears many hats: professional educator, wife, mother, and author. Growing up on a farm in rural Indiana, Amanda led a life brimming with imaginative quests and romps across the midwestern countryside. Writing at an early age, she earned many scholastic awards before graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in elementary education. Valedictorian of the class of 1998 at St. Joseph's College, Amanda went on to earn her Master of Education degree in curriculum and instruction at Indiana Wesleyan University. After spending nearly 15 years in the elementary classroom, she developed a year-long homeschool curriculum that immersed her children in various experiences throughout the entire United States. She and her husband are now busy raising their eight beautiful children in central Indiana where Impish visits them each and every Christmastime.