Janine M. Fraser

I do not remember how I came across this book. However, I asked my library to purchase it and they did....even though we had to order it from the UK. When I was surprised that they did it, my colleague informed me that "sure enough, like I had thought, we needed to have this book in our collection."

It's the story of Sarah who has two grandmother's. Like most of us. Only one of them is Christian and the other is Muslim. They both tell her their version of the Christmas story. Sarah struggles because she loves both of them.

While I have my own doctrinal beliefs, the reason I wanted this book in the collection was because of its diversity. I have never really found a diverse Christmas book before that relates what many families undoubtedly experience--the melding of beliefs--especially around the holidays. I like that this book was about finding something of commonality. Tearing people down for being different is usually far more prevalent (in real life anyway)

I want to read this one to my own children at Christmas one day… (mer)

Genre: Early Chapter Books
Age Appripateness:3rd grade
Review:It is definatly a thought-provoking book. It is a story about how two best friends become hostile towards each other because of a mistake in their mutual project but eventually break the Guinness record by collaborating with each other to make the longest daisy chain in the world at the last minute. Friends are always friends and even things goes wrong with them, the true final healing between friends always make friendship become stronger. At the same time, we should be more general and tolerant towards our friends because no one is perfect and everyone makes mistakes.
It is a chapter book because the age range for book is typically 6 to 10,and it has large font, lots of black and white illustrations, short chapters and fewer than 150 pages.… (mer)