A Simple Christmas

Twelve Stories That Celebrate the True Holiday Spirit

By: Mike Huckabee

Narrated by: Mike Huckabee

The New York Times bestseller by the former governor and presidential candidate-an instant classic, reissued for 2010.

Christmas has become synonymous with shopping, overindulging, and stress. But according to Mike Huckabee, that was never God's intention. Going back to the Nativity, Christmas is supposed to be about simple things: faith, love, family, and hope. The hard part, in today's crazy world, is remembering that those simple things are the most precious.

Huckabee recounts twelve Christmas memories that range from his childhood in Arkansas to his years as a young husband and father to his time as a governor and then a presidential candidate. These true stories will help you smile, take a deep breath, and maybe slow down your own holiday treadmill.

For instance, as kids, Mike and his sister would sneak open their gifts before Christmas, play with them, then rewrap them so their parents wouldn't notice. The plan worked great until one Christmas when young Mike unwrapped a brand-new football...that was covered in mud. That led to a powerful lesson about patience and a reminder that the best Christmases are the simple ones.©2009 Mike Huckabee; (P)2009 Penguin

Great!!!

I loved this read so much that I bought the book for me to have at home, a gift for a friend, and then used the first chapter when teaching middle schoolers in Sun. school. I highly recommend!!!

A Simple Christmas

I enjoyed it very much. I also liked Mike reading it. He was very good. Thank you for a very nice story written with a lot of promise and hope that you and your wife had even in very hard times. You showed how your faith carried you through. You were so young and yet so mature that it did my heart good to see how you did what had to be done. I sure hope that somday you will be my president. The country would be a much better place.. Good luck, I will be here for you.

Just like Huckabee

This book is indeed just like Huckabee, humorous, entertaining, insightul, and truth revealing. You get a great view of the down to earth lifestyle of a man and wife who live what they believe. It is interesting to here Huckabee's side as he reveals the reality of how the press can twist and distort truth to meet their preconceived ideas and agendas. My wife and I enjoyed it to the point we didn't want it to end.

This a book I must read every Christmas !

I 💜 this book so much , it will be on my Christmas read list every year!