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Title: One Wintry Night: The Christmas Story by Ruth Bell Graham, Richard Jesse Watson ISBN: 0-8010-3848-0 Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: November, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.97 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautifully written, very moving Christmas story
Comment: This charming Christmas story will warm your heart -- Ruth Bell Graham teams with Richard Jesse Watson to tell the story of a young boy away from home at Christmas. I love this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Ruth Bell Graham on the true meaning of Christmas
Comment: Zeb is a young mountain boy who is caught alone in a sudden snowstorm. He ends up taking refuge at a cabin his grandfather had helped to build many years before. The old woman living there shelters Zeb, who has a badly swollen ankle, while they are snowbound. To pass the time she offers to tell him the Christmas story. Such is the simple premise of "One Wintry Night," but Ruth Bell Graham tells about much more than the story of the nativity of Jesus.
I find it meaningful that before the story begins we read the first eleven verses of the gospel according to Luke. These are, of course, essentially the same versus that Linus recites in "A Charlie Brown Christmas," which certainly makes it one of the most recognizable Bible verses for young children. It ends with the declaration of the angel of the birth of a savior, and it is ultimately that aspect which Graham is trying to explain. After all, the whole point of the recitation by Linus was to explain to Charlie Brown what Christmas is all about, and this proves to be Graham's goal as well.
Consequently, the old woman in this story begins the tale with the creation of the universe, and she spends more time talking about the story of Adam and Eve than the story of Jesus, which is told from the perspective of a boy named Aaron and his little sister Anna. Zeb is used to underscore the lesson by asking questions that set up each part of the old woman's narrative.
Richard Jesse Watson provides the illustrations, which are beautiful but sort of unnecessary to the story being told (I actually found myself ignoring them the first time through the book simply because I was caught up in the story Graham was telling; but they are some nice illustrations here). The story has in-text citations for scriptural references, including one from the book of Micah, which is usually a good sign. "One Wintry Night" does a nice job of putting the Christmas story in a larger scriptural context, which should certainly be appealing to some parents looking for something along these lines for their children.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic Book all year long!
Comment: This book shows the Bible to be one story...the story of a loving God saving a fallen people. It's a GREAT perspective. The illustrations are beautiful, and the story very well written. I read this to my kids every Christmas, one chapter per night...They're always begging for more! It's wonderful for Christmas, but the story is so much more than just a Christmas story! Highly Recommended!
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Title: The Crippled Lamb : by Max Lucado, Liz Bonham ISBN: 0849910056 Publisher: Thomas Nelson Pub. Date: 14 October, 1994 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Why Christmas Trees Aren't Perfect by Dick Schneider, Elizabeth J. Miles, Richard H. Schneider ISBN: 0687453631 Publisher: Abingdon Press Pub. Date: September, 1988 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey by Susan Wojciechowski, Patrick James Lynch ISBN: 1564023206 Publisher: Candlewick Press Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.99 |
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Title: The Tale of Three Trees by Angela Elwell Hunt, Tim Jonke ISBN: 0745945937 Publisher: Chariot Victor Pub Pub. Date: February, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Legend of the Candy Cane, The by Lori Walburg, James Bernardin ISBN: 0310212472 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 19 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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