We Wish You A Crazy Christmas: Strange Christmas Cards Postcard Book Cards – 17 Nov. 2011

This collection of oversized Christmas greetings postcard is quite unique. The postcards are beautifully produced on thick card with high-quality printing, bringing out every detail of the fascinating illustrations. Looking at the (sadly undated) images you realise just how standardised our idea of an appropriate Christmas picture has become. This collection is far more wide-ranging than the usual robins, snowmen, Christmas trees, stashes of gifts, etc. Most tend to the bizarre and, while compelling, are oddly unsettling. A giant fish lands a puny man on a fishing rod; a hideously sentimental image of a chubby little girl with a sprig of mistletoe is labelled 'tos it's tismas...' Don't buy these if you want 'nice'. Almost all are creepy, some downright sinister. Be warned that the front-cover picture of a leering pine-cone and tree bauble pushing a slightly traumatised-looking doll on a swing isn't included as a postcard.

Great fun, very happy with these.

I love these! Many of the post cards are hilarious and, without fail, they are all a little odd. I'm looking forward to sending these out this coming Christmas to give everyone a bit of comic relief. I would definitely buy these again and recommend them for anyone so has a good sense of humour.

Some really off base Christmas cards. Some of which had to be really stretching it to be called Christmas cards. Strange and different. A look into the past and wondering, "What on earth were they thinking?"

Belle carte de Noel, différentes et colorées. Beau format de carte et résistante

I was hoping that mostly all of these would be on the completely absurd and creepy side - that's just my personal taste. However, while there were a handful that fit that particular criteria for me, the rest are mostly just odd. Odd in the sense of, How does a picture of a shoe, or a dog fetching a stick in the water, or an image of five puppies bursting out of paper... convey Christmas? So if you're looking for Christmas postcards that are not so humorously weird but just a bit a left of center, then I recommend these. Also, larger than most postcards, so I was pleased with the extra room for writing. Great quality card stock - comes in a book WITHOUT perforations, but tears out easily enough.ps - sorry for the angles - added them right side up, yet still the pics uploaded weird. Hope these help!

Really only bought this item because I wanted the postcard that was on the cover of the book. However the cover postcard was not included so was a bit disappointed.