A Cheer for the Year

<p>A Cheer for the Year offers a poetic calendar of holiday treats the feeling you get when a friend presses a box of decadent chocolates in your hands and you didn't even know that's what you were missing.</p><p> </p><p>Author/poet Raven Howell lights sparklers flips pancakes and dances us merrily through the year while illustrator Meredith Fern's paper cut-outs create the friendly imaginative and expressive home for each verse.</p><p></p>