title: Children Of Christmas (Orchard Paperbacks)
author:  Cynthia Rylant 
description: Six Christmas stories by the Newbery Honorwinning author converge to portray the sensitive moods of togetherness, loss, belonging, privation. Garnet Ash has lived alone in an out-of-the-way house ever since his parents died; his solace is growing Christmas trees, and folks ride out to his place once a year. Francis spends part of Christmas Eve with her father in a diner where a stray cat is fed and sheltered. Philip's grandfather comes for the holiday and misses his dead wife; Philip tries to show him "you've got us." Silvia walks the streets of New York, looking for Christmas in the eyes of strangers. Frankie waits yearly for the Christmas train to arrive in the mountains with a special package for him. And Mae, while hungry and sick, tries to find shelter and instead stumbles across a picture of a woman and a baby and stars in the sky. Rylant's Christmas is a sad and lonely one, but her ability to summon the joys of the season through her writing is extraordinary. Schindler's illustrations, appropriately, are both reserved and inciting. A Richard Jackson Book. Ages 8-up. <br />Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
  						    	
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  # The Carpenter’s Christmas Romance
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # The Carpenter’s Christmas Romance
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Needing a miracle, Mandy Williams headed to Milwaukie where she hoped to find
  a stable job and a place to raise her two-year-old son. What she didn’t expect
  to find was Blake Jessop, her first love. His violet blue eyes still captivate
  her heart and his peaceful soul is like a siren to her troubled heart. But she
  broke Blake’