BryonySeries at the 2025 North Pole Christmas Market

We are thrilled to participate for the secpond year in a row at the North Pole Christmas Market at Joliet's annual "Light Up the Holidays" event, which is held every year in several downtown locations the day after Thanksgiving.

The Joliet City Center Partnership hosts a wonderful event with live entertainment, ice skating, horse-drawn carriages, visits with Santa, ice sculpture demos, children's Ferris wheel, slide, tree lighting, and a large parade towards evening.

Bertrand and Uncle Barty are super excited to attend the Christmas Market portion of the event, especially we are helping to spread the joys of reading to children of all ages while also finding home for some of their mouse friends.

Here is an overview of BryonySeries books we'll have for sale.

And for every two BryonySeries children's books you donate for Santa Services and the Will County Children's Advocacy Center, you may adopt one of Bertrand's friends (while mice area available for adoption).

Available mice may not resemble these former adoptable mice.

Many mice will also come with a homemade stocking, courtesy of Cindy and her Ribbit-Ribbits.

If all the mice are adopted, we will have other "thank you gifts" available for people who purchase and donate two or more BryonySeries children's books.

Of course, you may purchase any book for yourself or gift giving.

We will also have WriteOn Joliet anthologies for sale, too, plus information about WriteOn Joliet's anthology release party on December 4.

The 2025 North Pole Christmas Market runs from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. November 28 at the Renaissance Center, 214 No. Ottawa Street in Joliet.

For a full list of "Light Up the Holidays" activities, visit jolietccp.com/holidays.