About this title: While preparing for Hanukkah, Trisha and her family learn that many of their neighbors have scarlet fever and have been quarantined. Knowing they won't be able to enjoy their holiday when their friends are too sick to prepare for their Christmas celebrations, Trisha and her family secretly deliver Christmas trees, each decorated with a wooden goat hand carved by Trisha's grandfather, to all their friends and neighbors. Color illustrations accompany the text.
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780689808623ISBN:0689808623
Description: Polacco, Patricia. Good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Picture book. 32 p. Contains: Illustrations. Intended for a juvenile audience. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
ISBN-13:9780689808623ISBN:0689808623
Description: Good. 0689808623 Former library item may have library binding and show stamps, stickers or other marks. Items not meeting quality expectations may be returned. Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Aladdin
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780689838576ISBN:0689838573
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: ALADDIN PAPERBACKS % SS
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780689838576ISBN:0689838573
Description: New. While Trisha and her family prepare for the Jewish holidays, the neighboring Kremmel family is preparing for Christmas. When scarlet fever strikes the Kremmel family, Trisha and her grandmother help make the Kremmel's Christmas a special one. Full-co... read more
"This is a very sweet story of... holidays, I guess, and neighborliness, presumably based upon an event in the author's life.
She and her family were preparing for Hanukkah when they realized that all their neighbors were sick with scarlet fever... and the kids were basically going to have no Christmas at all because they and their families were too sick to celebrate. Nobody wants to think of their friends as giving up their holiday, so Patricia's family, who was luckily all well, prepared small Christmas trees for their neighbors and decorated them with the wooden toys they'd made for their own Hanukkah.
This is exactly the example of charity that's right for kids to learn about. You do something nice for people because it's the right thing to do, and you do it gladly. You don't bemoan giving up your things, and you don't expect a reward (although they get one in the form of their neighbors continuing to be good friends.)
A good message for any time of year, whatever your beliefs."
"I've never actually found a copy of this book; I should just order it from Amazon. It was published many years ago in the Lands End Christmas catalog and I've never forgotten it. It's a great story about being true neighbors. It's a beautifully written tale about a Jewish family that makes Christmas special for neighboring families who have been stricken by a flu epidemic. It made me cry.
Why is it that my favorite Christmas stories are the ones that make me cry?"
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