Christmas

With the holidays nearing, the post office has two new Christmas stamps and the usual array of postage for other holidays available.

Tink and Ranj have fun playing in all the Christmas decorations :) Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com).

There are all kinds of Christmas miracles, as USA TODAY’s Bob Minzesheimer discovers in four illustrated books for young readers.

Bonbons that look like iridescent red and green Christmas ornaments. Orange slices coated in serious dark chocolate. One-bite oblongs filled with raspberry or cinnamon-honey. These are some of the treats that Antoine Amrani, a former pastry chef of Le Bec-Fin restaurant in Philadelphia, now makes in a small factory near the city. His chocolates offer a balance of bittersweet and deep flavor …

“What if December looked different this year? What if we all gave Christmas away?”