|  | Jennifer Heger | | Writing for Children |
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How Six Found Christmas
I know Christmas may seem like a distant memory, yet it was only a mere 10 days ago! This book lingers with me every year, How Six Found Christmas written and illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman.
This is a simple story, longer than a picture book but not yet a chapter book, about a "sensible" little girl who had never heard of Christmas. She sets off into the snowy woods to find this mysterious thing. She runs into a curious cat, a hound dog and a hawk. They've never heard of Christmas either so they join her in her search. Soon they are joined by a clever fox and a silly mockingbird.
Then, half buried in the snow, they come across something ( I won't tell you what!). They each assign it different qualities, as they perceive the world with different senses: touch (cat), smell (hound), sight (hawk), taste (fox), sound (mockingbird). They all believe the found object to be Christmas, but their experiences of it are varied: silky, smooth, cold, charming, disappointing and in the words of hound: "It smells of past memories, half-forgotten things, both happy and sad." The little girl takes the object home; perhaps she has found Christmas.
I have owned my copy of this book since childhood and always saw it as magical. Ms. Hyman's illustrations are beautiful in only black, white, red and brown. Oh, how I wished to be that sensible little girl in the snowy woods, on a seemingly small, but in fact rather large, adventure!
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book I'd love to read this Jen. |
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