The woodcutter's Christmas / Brad Kessler ; photographs by Dona Ann McAdams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kessler, Brad

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christmas tree growing.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.).

Christmas tree growing--Fiction.

Homeless women--Fiction.

Homeless women.

Vermont.

Vermont--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

54 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Council Oak Books, 2001.

Summary:

Each year a New York family looks forward to the day in early December when the Woodcutter arrives and sets up his Christmas trees on the sidewalk below their apartment. Cheerful, yet mysterious, the Woodcutter seems more at home with his trees than with other humans. Every year, his trees sold, he packs up his truck on Christmas eve and returns to Vermont.

Then one year, the Woodcutter doesn't show up. He and his trees begin to fade from memory until a Vermont vacation takes the family past his home. A half-remembered invitation leads to a reunion and elicits the Woodcutter's haunting and heart-warming fireside account of the Christmas that changed his life. The Woodcutter's magical tale of abandonment, generosity, love, and redemption weaves a simple but powerful holiday message: look for the gold beneath the grit, embrace that which has been cast aside.

ISBN:

1571781056

OCLC:

46959614