November is National Adoption Month! For this last
Spotlight, we focus on a holiday icon!
Culled mostly from Wikipedia:
In the
gloomy city of Sombertown, ruled by the ill-tempered Burgermeister
Meisterburger (voiced by Paul Frees), a baby arrives on his doorstep, with a name
tag reading "Claus" and note requesting that the Burgermeister raise
the child as his own, despite the Burgermeister's objections. He then orders
his right-hand man and lawkeeper Grimsley (also voiced by Paul Frees) to take
the baby to the "Orphan Asylum." On the way there, a gust of wind blows
both sled and baby far away, to the mountain of the Whispering Winds. There,
the animals hide him from the Winter Warlock (voiced by Keenan Wynn),
a powerful wizard who dislikes anyone trespassing his land. The animals then
bring the baby to the other side of the mountain to an elf
family by the name of Kringle. Led by Tanta
The
rest of a holiday classic! So put one foot in front of the other to get the DVD today!
In “serious”
literature, L Frank Baum (does the name sound familiar – he wrote books about a
certain land that lies somewhere over the rainbow) wrote in “The Life and
Adventures of Santa Claus” that the foundling waif was instead adopted by the
fairy/nymph Necile. It’s a great book and I read it every Christmas season (along
with :A Christmas Carol”, too.)
Be sure to visit Abby’s Road on Facebook for more Spotlights including Lance
Armstrong, Nancy Reagan, Steve Jobs and Gary Coleman (never thought you’d see
those people in the same sentence, did you?)!
This is the
last blog spotlighting famous adoptees for National Adoption Month! Next month
I’ll have more news on Abby’s Road and my new books! Also lots of comic book reviews,
a review of the last Hobbit movie and other nerdly goodness!
“Abby’s Road, the Long and Winding Road
Join Mike and Esther as they go through IUIs and IFVs, as
they search for an adoption agency, are selected by a birth mother, prepare
their house, prepare their family, prepare themselves and wait for their
daughter to be born a thousand miles from home.
Winner, Honorable Mention, 2014, Great Midwest Book Festival
Abby’s Road is available at Amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/Abbys-Road-Long-Winding-Adoption/product-reviews/0692221530/ref=cm_cr_pr_top_recent?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending
at Barnes and Noble here: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/abbys-road-the-long-and-winding-road-to-adoption-and-how-facebook-aquaman-and-theodore-roosevelt-helped-michael-curry/1119971924?ean=9780692221532
and at Smashwords here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/457270
Copyright 2014 Michael Curry
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