Product Description

Nearly half a million gift–givers have brought the light of Christmas into the heart of someone special with Thomas Kinkade’s I’ll Be Home for Christmas. This new, more compact, caseside–printed edition will appeal to the more price–conscious admirers of America’s beloved “Painter of Light^®.”

More than 20 of Kinkade’s radiant Christmas paintings—favorites from the Victorian Christmas and Home for the Holidays series—are highlighted by stories, quotes, poems, and carols that evoke the spirit of the season.

From elegant white sparkles woven throughout snow–covered treetops...to colorful, glittering lights decorating a Victorian gingerbread house...to a tree shimmering with candles and framed in a glowing window...this very special book will fill heart and home with Christmas dreams and memories.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1238217 in Books
• Published on: 2005-06-01
• Released on: 2005-06-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 48 pages

Ingram
The luminous windows of Thomas Kinkade's cozy English cottages and gracious Victorian houses welcome you home with the brilliant lights of Christmas. Eighteen paintings are paired with quotes, poems and carols that evoke Christmas.

Customer Reviews

Beautiful and inspiring
The book has beautiful illustrations and very touching and inspirational messages, quotes, etc. on each page. It was given to me as a gift and I love it! It will be something I treasure through my life.

Seasonal inspiration from America's "Painter of Light"
Anyone not aware of Thomas Kinkade's artwork hasn't been paying attention in stores for the last five years or so. With his old-fashioned images of a romantic yesteryear that probably never existed, Kinkade has become America's most-published artist. In "I'll Be Home for Christmas," he specializes in snowy landscapes, glowing cottages with smoke coming from rock chimneys and horse-drawn sleighs bringing visitors for Yule festivities. Text for the book comes from seasonal writings by Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Washington Irving, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Kenneth Grahame, Isaac Watts and, of course, the Gospel of Luke. The artwork is the most notable feature: Large scenes are mixed with close-up details that reveal Kinkade's brushstrokes. People familiar with Kinkade's work know that he hides little letter 'N's throughout his paintings (the number that appears under his signature indicates how many are in that particular painting) in honor of his wife, Nanette. The printing in "I'll Be Home for Christmas" is so good that they are visible on almost every page. This isn't a thick book, nor heavy Christmas reading, but it certainly sheds some beautiful light on the spirit of the season.