Calvin's Christmas Wish

By Calvin Miles

Book Overview

During a very special Christmas set in North Carolina in the 1950s, young Calvin dreams about receiving a green Hoppalong Cassidy model bicycle from Santa Claus, but he worries that Santa is not real. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670842958
• ISBN13: 9780670842957
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: Viking Juvenile
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 20.0" x 20.0" x 20.0"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

A lovely, warm-hearted Christmas book

I met the author of this true story, Calvin Miles, on a bike trip in Vermont. A kinder, funnier, more intelligent guy you couldn't hope to meet. I've never read another children's book that explores, as this one does, children's worries about Christmas: Is there really a Santa? If not, can their parents really afford to buy them the gifts they're dreaming of? The glowing, warm-hearted pictures reflect the safe, joyful feeling Christmas can bring. For me, the pictures of the shiny green bike bring back memories of beloved possessions that took on a magical quality.Since so many children's Christmas classics feature white people only, this is a perfect addition to classroom libraries 'round about December.