Press Clippings

‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirr- wait, people were reading books and sipping hot chocolate? Sorry, Clement Clarke Moore, but in Iceland your poem will have to wait. Thousands of families there still celebrate Jólabókaflód, the Yule book flood, on Christmas Eve. They will exchange books after dinner and then read them together, as a family, until bedtime. This unique holiday tradition is just one of the many that have been captured in books that line the shelves at the Worlds of Words Center on campus at the University of Arizona.