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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) (2005), Edition: 30 Anv, Paperback, 48 pages
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The grumpy old woman had never properly celebrated Christmas until the year that the Star Mother's youngest child came to earth to find out what Christmas was all about.
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LibraryThing member mama-aya
This is probably my very favorite story for my very favorite holiday. It is not a Christian telling of the Christmas Story, but a wonderful journey of understanding and peace, friendship and hardship, love and redemption, and is both heart warming and funny. We read this every Christmas time, as a
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LibraryThing member lorsomething
Great imagination and heart.
LibraryThing member AbigailAdams26
A lonely old woman, forgotten by the people of the nearby village and all by herself in the world, longs to celebrate Christmas in the festive way, with a tree, presents, candles, music and a feast. Up in the sky, Star Mother's Youngest Child also longs for a Christmas celebration, hoping to
Originally published in 1975, and then reprinted in this 30th Anniversary Edition, this "Classic Christmas Story" (as it is styled), offers a celebration of the idea that it is the people around us who truly make a holiday. Through the old woman's interaction with the star child, the reader learns that by providing for others, as the old woman is prompted to do by her celestial visitor, we often are also providing for ourselves. The artwork by Trina Schart Hyman, one of my favorite fairy-tales illustrators, captures the almost folkloric feel of Moeri's story, and the emotional range of her two main characters. Recommended to anyone looking for Christmas stories that are a little bit different, as well as to any Trina Schart Hyman fans.
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witness and experience such a joyous occasion before settling down to his role in the heavens. Dispatched by her mother to earth, in the shape of a homely little boy, the Youngest Child comes upon the old woman's cottage, where at his insistence, the two experience a Christmas with all the trimmings...Originally published in 1975, and then reprinted in this 30th Anniversary Edition, this "Classic Christmas Story" (as it is styled), offers a celebration of the idea that it is the people around us who truly make a holiday. Through the old woman's interaction with the star child, the reader learns that by providing for others, as the old woman is prompted to do by her celestial visitor, we often are also providing for ourselves. The artwork by Trina Schart Hyman, one of my favorite fairy-tales illustrators, captures the almost folkloric feel of Moeri's story, and the emotional range of her two main characters. Recommended to anyone looking for Christmas stories that are a little bit different, as well as to any Trina Schart Hyman fans.
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48 p.; 6 inches
ISBN
0618615091 / 9780618615094
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Once upon a Christmas, there was an old woman who lived in a hut at the edge of the forest, with only her old dog, Uproar, to keep her company. The old woman had only one wish: to celebrate a real Christmas, with a tree and presents and candles and food. High up in the heavens, Star Mother's youngest child makes a wish, too. "Mother " he wails, "just once I want to celebrate Christmas like they do down there " So Star Mother sends him to earth, where he finds a hut and knocks on the door.
A heartwarming Christmas fable. Shame the illustrations are b&w, but they're lovely none-the-less.
A heartwarming Christmas fable. Shame the illustrations are b&w, but they're lovely none-the-less.