Product Description

A best-selling Christmas classic - for five years running - is now available as an irresistable gift set! This beautifully-packaged gift set includes the award-winning hard-cover edition and CD recording of James Earl Jones reading the story, with full orchestral accompaniment. Also included is a custom-crafted special edition ornament from The Cat's Meow - the leading source for authentic wooden collectibles. Quantities will be limited, so order now while supplies last.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2340605 in Books
• Published on: 2000-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover

From Publishers Weekly
Now with a new cover and new size (8 11/16" x 7 7/8"), The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey (1995) by Susan Wojciechowski, illus. by P.J. Lynch, pairs what PW's starred review called an "elegant, poignant" story, about the spiritual reawakening of a bitter man, with richly detailed watercolors of an early-American setting. Ages 6-12.
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From Booklist
Ages 4^-9. "Christmas is pish-posh," grumbles Jonathan Toomey, the best wood carver in the valley. He's a Scroogelike recluse; but he's a gentle grouch, it turns out, and he hides a sad secret. He's transformed, not by Dickensian ghosts, but by an eager seven-year-old boy and his widowed mother who ask him to make them a Christmas creche. The story verges on the sentimental, but it's told with feeling and lyricism (he "traveled till his tears stopped" ). Lynch's sweeping illustrations, in shades of wood grain, are both realistic and gloriously romantic, focusing on faces and hands at work before the fire and in the lamplight. In a beautiful, elemental scene, the angry wood carver stands on the threshold of his home, disturbed by the gentle widow and her son who want his help and will transform his life. Hazel Rochman

Ingram
Pushing his friends and neighbors away in his grief over losing his wife and child, gifted woodcarver Jonathan Toomey finds his life changing when the widow McDowell asks him to carve a special Christmas gift and allow her young son to watch.