Mommy, Why Don’t We Celebrate Halloween?

There was a need in the Christian community that was being ignored. It’s Halloween and the Christians who do not celebrate it. Some Christian radio programs, churches, and publishers felt Halloween was too controversial a topic. Many have done programs on alternative ways to celebrate it.

I tell all who challenge me concerning the book, “Mommy, Why Don’t We Celebrate Halloween?”, that it is written to explain to others why my family does not celebrate Halloween, “NOT” why others should not.

This is a resource book. As adults we can choose to ignore Halloween, but what about our kids?  They are the ones out there struggling with this situation. These children need to know there is a resource to give to those who poke fun and question them every October. 

The first year that Destiny Image Publishers went national with this book, they received a call from Anthony LaVay, son of Anton LaVay, who wrote the Satanic Bible. As a new Christian he called to say, “Thank You for producing this book and please thank Mrs. Winwood for writing it. It’s about time someone wrote a book for children. If parents knew what still happens on that night, they would never let their children out of the house. This book will really make an impact!”

Linda Hacon Winwood is a nationally and internationally published children’s author and motivational speaker on literacy. Linda uses her own personal testimony about over-coming reading disorders. Her first book published was “Mommy Why Don’t We Celebrate Halloween?” by Destiny Image Publishers in 1994. It sold over half a million copies. copies nationally and internationally.

It was translated into Italian in 2005, in Slovak and Spanish in the fall of 2009 and in Japanese in 2015. Her second book, “Colored Eggs for Jesse,” was initially self-published and released just two weeks before Easter of 1998 and sold over 900 copies. In the three years following, sales again exceeded 900 copies per year. In the spring of 2003, the book went national through Destiny Image Publishers. In 2015 it was also translated into Japanese.

As a motivational speaker, Linda has travelled as far as Okinawa, Japan where she spoke to groups of children in the U.S. Department of Defense Public Schools and Japanese and American Christian Schools.

Linda has spoken in public and Christian schools and churches in the states of Alabama, Arizona, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Florida and Cuba.

In addition, Linda has presented at AARP groups, retirement centers and nursing homes, womens’ conferences, MOPS, mother-daughter teas and Womens’ Aglow’s events. Mrs. Winwood has been a repeat guest on Christian TV Channel 40 shows including: “Getting Together Show”, “His Place”, and “Exposing the  Lies”.

Linda was also a guest on “Pittsburgh Talks”, a Christian radio talk show on “WORD” radio, “Teenquest Live”, “IMPACT LIVE” in addition to other radio interviews throughout the United States and Canada.

Linda Hacon Winwood is a native resident of western Pennsylvania and currently living in Florida. Linda is married and the mother of four grown daughters and grandmother of thirteen children.

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Visit Linda’s website at http://lindawinwood.com/