title: Finding Christmas
author:  Helen Ward 
description: PreSchool-Grade 1Late on Christmas Eve, a little girl is still seeking the perfect present for her baby brother. She finds a mysterious shop overflowing with toys, but before she can get someone to assist her, another shopper (whom children will realize is Santa Claus) scoops every single item into a sack and hauls it out the door. She is told, "Not to worry, sometimes the best presents are the ones that find us." Instead of despairing, she decides that her brother would love the newly falling snow, but then a stuffed animal miraculously falls from the sky, a gift from Santa. The images of the little girl wandering alone along dark streets and the Dickensian toy shop with its elf-eared shop assistants give this large picture book a surreal, almost eerie quality. Despite the vagueness of the moral (did Santa give the bear to the girl because of her tenacity or because of her resignation?), the spectacle of the toy shop with its fabulous array of strange and wonderful playthings will entice young children.<i>E. M.</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  # Coming Home to Me This Christmas
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CP Ward
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  “Coming Home to Me This Christmas”
  
  
  Copyright **©** CP Ward 2019
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The right of Chris Ward to be identified as the Author of this Work has been
  asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act
  1988.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in
  a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the
  prior written permission of the Author.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This story is a work of fiction and is a product of the Author’s imagination.
  All resemblances to actual locations or to persons living or dead are entirely
  coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # By CP Ward
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [I’m Glad I Found You This
  Christmas](http://get.180g.co/blink/?id=B07F5ZM8LN&store=Amazon&fc=gb&ds=1)
  
  
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