Jolabokaflod: Your Favorite New Holiday Tradition
Get behind Iceland's “Yule Book Flood” this holiday
season and read books on Christmas Eve or just over the school break. What a great tradition!
Iceland has a Christmas Eve book tradition of
jólabókaflóð or Yule Book Flood. Everyone in Iceland gets a catalog of all the
new published books in their mailbox at the start of the holiday season and
they start buying books. They exchange books on Christmas Eve and then spend
the evening reading them!
The Yule Book Flood started during WWII when
imports were limited but paper was cheap and available. The country was too
small to support year round book publishing so they flooded the market with
books at the end of the year. Books became the traditional Christmas gift.
For the next 15 school days, I will be flooding
you with book recommendations. Maybe one of these titles will be your perfect
Holiday read over the break. You don’t have to buy these
books...just get them from your school library!
Here is the Link to my Google Slides for the first 6 days of my Book Flood!