Old Father Christmas

by Berlie Doherty

Book Overview

One Christmas Eve, as two young children are walking through the snow-covered countryside, they come across a man who looks just like the Old Father Christmas in their picture book at home. They dream... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812063546
• ISBN13: 9780812063547
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.9" x 10.5"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Delightfully Gentle Nostalgia Piece

If you appreciate the gentle nostalgia of a Victorian Christmas, this lovely book is for you. A delightful read-aloud story for parents and grandparents to share with their own family treasures. Who minds a story within a story? It is important that modern children realize the simple pleasures of bygone days, when toys were fewer in number, but lasted much longer and were greatly prized! Meloni's wonderful color illustrations (authentic and detailed) recapture the charm of this distant era, and will hold the child's interest while an adult reads. This quiet tale should stimulate quality-time discussions about warm family values at Christmas. An 8-year-old country boy and his 6-year old assume that an old man who is carrying a pine tree is actually Father Christmas. Their childlike logic projects their own expectations of his bringing them their first Christmas tree--a custom initiated by Prince Albert (from his native Germany). Is the old man really the special personage they wish him to be or will they be disillusioned by adult logic? A truly beautiful book where both story and illustrations blend to create the peaceful glow of a distant Christmas--no farther away than the reader's heart!