The Greater Kitchener/Waterloo Chamber of Commerce is providing an opportunity for local artisans and authors to present their Christmas-themed materials to the local community.

‘Twas the Night: A Christmas Collection is a family-friendly, faith-based collection of 13 short stories that all take place on Christmas Eve. Readers will travel from Malawi to Mexico, and from ancient Palestine to modern-day Egypt, learning the background of many familiar seasonal traditions and ways that people around the world celebrate Christmas.

Local Kitchener/Waterloo residents pay $CDN 12.99 and receive free delivery and/or shipping with the purchase of this book. Click here for further details.

The book includes the story, Christmas Comes to Schneider’s House; a fictional account set in 1816, incorporates local Kitchener history. It tells a fictional conversation between Joseph Schneider and Pastor George Erb, as they discuss how they can reach out to the group of new English and Scottish immigrants that have come into the Waterloo District.

For those living outside of the Kitchener region, the book is available in E-Book format or paperback at Amazon.com, or for expedited delivery to Canadian readers, at Amazon.ca.