The Candle in the Window

by Grace Johnson and Eoin Colfer

Book Overview

Refusing to celebrate Christmas in his disillusionment, German cobbler Gunther is surprised when visitors to his shop place a candle in his window that they say will light the way for the Christ... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800718151
• ISBN13: 9780800718152
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.9" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

The Candle in the Window

I shared this with my third graders and they loved it.

A joyful and faithful holiday commemoration

Based on a story by Leo Tolstoy, The Candle In The Window is a children's picture book about the true meaning of Christmas. A lonely, unhappy cobbler who finds no joy in life encounters the holiday proceedings of awaiting the Christ Child's visit. He prepares to welcome Christ, yet the gifts he has planned end up going to other needy souls. It is a young girl who shows him the eternal value of this, for Christ's own words have proclaimed the testament of good deeds in the terms "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of my brethren, ye have done it unto me." A joyful and faithful holiday commemoration adapted by Grace Johnson, The Candle In The Window is warmly illustrated by Mark Elliott and very highly recommended.