-This is a Christmas miracle like no other, with such richness in image and story that children will return to it again and again-
(Booklist, starred review).
-Without a doubt the most original Christmas book of the year not the least because of its surprising yet, in context, fitting combination of the devout and the surreal.---
The Horn Book, starred review
-The story is sweet, simple and wordless. The illustrations are intricate enough to warrant reading this one over and over.---
American Bookseller -...an upbeat story to treasure for this and many Christmases to come.---
School Library Journal -In a series of meticulously crafted panels, Collington poignantly relates the wordless story of a penniless old woman whose good turn is rewarded-she rescues the village church's nativity scene from a vandal-when the figurines come to life and save her.--
Publishers Weekly, Starred
From the Hardcover edition.
"This is a Christmas miracle like no other, with such richness in image and story that children will return to it again and again" (Booklist, starred review).
"Without a doubt the most original Christmas book of the year not the least because of its surprising yet, in context, fitting combination of the devout and the surreal."--
The Horn Book, starred review
"The story is sweet, simple and wordless. The illustrations are intricate enough to warrant reading this one over and over."--
American Bookseller ..".an upbeat story to treasure for this and many Christmases to come."--
School Library Journal "In a series of meticulously crafted panels, Collington poignantly relates the wordless story of a penniless old woman whose good turn is rewarded-she rescues the village church's nativity scene from a vandal-when the figurines come to life and save her."-
Publishers Weekly, Starred
From the Hardcover edition.
Peter Collington is the author and illustrator of several highly acclaimed books for children. The Chicago Tribune praised him as a "master of wordless picture books."
From the Hardcover edition.