Cole Family Christmas by Jennifer Liu Bryan, Hazel Cole Kendle and Jenniffer Julich

Cole For Christmas

by: Jennifer Liu Bryan, Hazel Cole Kendle and Jenniffer Julich

Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover: 74 pages
Publisher: Next Chapter PR (September 15, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0981626505
ISBN-13: 978-0981626505
Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.1 x 0.6 inches

Cole Family Christmas is a delightfully wonderful and heart warming story that brings back the traditions and true meaning of Christmas. Set in 1920 America, during a time of financial lows and worries for day to day living, Cole Family Christmas is the true story of a coal mining family, who may not be wealthy in money, but are truly wealthy in love.

This was a time when the Sears Roebuck and Company catalogue had is glamorous and powerful presence and innocence of childhood was strong. The authors have brought the time and each character to life within the delightful pages of this timeless book. To go along with the wonderful story are gorgeous and eye catching illustrations that will remain in the reader's mind long after the last page has been turned.

I greatly enjoyed Cole Family Christmas and feel that it would make an excellent addition to anyone's library. A traditional holiday family story and/or a story read throughout the year - this is a sure hit and a wonderful tale of love and family.

*overall rating 4.5/5

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Product Description:

The wish book.

This amazing year, the nine children in the Cole family have been allowed to sit down with the Sears, Roebuck and Company catalogue to choose the gift they would most like to receive for Christmas. This is a rare event, for the Coles are not wealthy.

Indeed, Cole Family Christmas is the true, tender, and wholly unforgettable tale of a coal miner's family. The story takes place in the small company town of Benham, Kentucky, in a time (1920) and place when coal was king and families made their precarious living mining the dirty and sometimes deadly coal.

When one of Mama's few possessions, a treasured purple glass bowl with fluted edges, is accidentally broken by exuberant children rushing in from the outdoors, and an unlikely blizzard prevents Papa from coming home after working extra hours at the coal mine on Christmas Eve, the stage is set for a Christmas morning in which gifts are given and received that no one could have predicted.

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*A very special thank you to Lisa Roe at Online Publicist for allowing me the opportunity to read and review this great book!