What Child Is This?: A Christmas Story

by Caroline B. Cooney

Book Overview

When seventeen-year-old Matt tries to find a family for an eight-year-old foster child, his attempt backfires and both of them need a Christmas miracle This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385323174
• ISBN13: 9780385323178
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Wonderful Book for Christmas!

This is an amazing book; with a great lesson to it. I love to read this book at Christmas time to my younger sisters. It has such a powerful message. You should buy several to pass out this year at Christmas. Believe me you won't regret it.

What person will not love this?

Orphans have no hope most of the year, but Christmas is a time for all the hope you can muster. So as a gesture of kindness Matt offers to hang a special bell on a special tree for Katie. Matt and Katie are orphans at the same foster home, Matt has no hope anymore but all Katie wants is a family. It is a Christmas Eve that no one will ever forget, not Tack, Liz, Allison, Katie, or even hopeless Matt. It's the time when one insignificant orphan's wish comes true. This is a heart warming book that will teach you the real meaning of Christmas. Everyone in this book will grow just a little above their normal selves. I think that every one should read this book during Christmas. We all stray from the path of giving, but this will remind us that all is takes is a little giving to make a child smile. Fiction

What Child is This?

I admit that I'm one of those people who love Christmas. I decorate, bake, sing carols, shop and usually drive my family crazy trying to get them into the Christmas spirit. As a high school English teacher and librarian, I'm always looking for good books. One day in the supermarket I happened to see and then buy What Child Is This. It touched my heart in a way that few books ever have. I bought a copy for my best friend and gave it to her for Christmas. Last year I ordered 5 more for my sisters-in-law. This year I intend to order more to give to coworkers and other friends. The message is simple, we're all in this life together and we need to care for and take care of each other. Katie's out there alone and is like so many people in this world who need and desperately want a family.

This book can only be described by fate.

This book shows how the meaning of Christmas can be lost. In this book two sixteen year olds only want one thing for Christmas. They want Katie, age 8, to get a family for Christmas. This book is so enteresting because you have to wait until the every end of the book to find the outcome. It does not have just one good part. This book has several good parts. It defines love, loss, and hope.

Celebrate the spirit of the holiday

In the hurry-up holiday that Christmas has become, What Child Is This puts the spirit back into the season of peace, hope and love. All that and more is in this gem of a story that leaves you hungry to experience the true meaning of Christmas. I'm partial to Christmas stories in general, but this book shines like a child's eyes on Christmas morning.