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What Child Is This?: A Christmas Story

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This book shows how the meaning of Christmas can be lost. In this book two sixteen year olds only want one thing for Christmas. They want Katie, age 8, to get a family for Christmas. This book is so enteresting because you have to wait until the every end of the book to find the outcome. It does not have just one good part. This book has several good parts. It defines love, loss, and hope.

Orphans have no hope most of the year, but Christmas is a time for all the hope you can muster. So as a gesture of kindness Matt offers to hang a special bell on a special tree for Katie. Matt and Katie are orphans at the same foster home, Matt has no hope anymore but all Katie wants is a family. It is a Christmas Eve that no one will ever forget, not Tack, Liz, Allison, Katie, or even hopeless Matt. It's the time when one insignificant orphan's wish comes true. This is a heart warming book that will teach you the real meaning of Christmas. Everyone in this book will grow just a little above their normal selves. I think that every one should read this book during Christmas. We all stray from the path of giving, but this will remind us that all is takes is a little giving to make a child smile.

Fiction

In the hurry-up holiday that Christmas has become, What Child Is This puts the spirit back into the season of peace, hope and love. All that and more is in this gem of a story that leaves you hungry to experience the true meaning of Christmas. I'm partial to Christmas stories in general, but this book shines like a child's eyes on Christmas morning.

I admit that I'm one of those people who love Christmas. I decorate, bake, sing carols, shop and usually drive my family crazy trying to get them into the Christmas spirit. As a high school English teacher and librarian, I'm always looking for good books. One day in the supermarket I happened to see and then buy What Child Is This. It touched my heart in a way that few books ever have. I bought a copy for my best friend and gave it to her for Christmas. Last year I ordered 5 more for my sisters-in-law. This year I intend to order more to give to coworkers and other friends. The message is simple, we're all in this life together and we need to care for and take care of each other. Katie's out there alone and is like so many people in this world who need and desperately want a family.

This is an amazing book; with a great lesson to it. I love to read this book at Christmas time to my younger sisters. It has such a powerful message. You should buy several to pass out this year at Christmas. Believe me you won't regret it.

I found this book interesting, fast and easy to read, but must confess that I had not considered the plight of many foster children and foster parents. Especially poignant during a holiday season. I found the book somewhat disjointed, since there were no real chapters, but many short segments, each introduced by a line from a Christmas carol. Sections shifted focus from one teenager (or child or adult) to another, so it requires literary flexibility. Desite the lack of a clearcut protagonist, I think it would make a good TV movie.

As the book jacket proclaims; the kids desire so much (a ski trip, expensive sneakers, nothing less than a new and permanent family, and maternal closure for a grieving older sister). Yet the adults who control these kids' lives leave so much to be desired: Liz' parents--clueless about the true meaning of Christmas--honestly love her, but only wish to impress the World, so they set poor examples of compasison and charity. Perhaps a few fathers are as close to perfect as Mr. Knight, but I feel that most congregations would respond the same way if confronted by a Christmas Eve disaster-- even that of a stranger. Let your heart go out to the needy children in the community--this book is an inspiration to churches and social agencies to bring joy to orphans, poor and foster kids with no home to call their own. The ending satisfies..

This little book tugged at my heartstrings from the get-go. I'm going to keep it around for when my girls get a bit older and need some reading to do. I think everyone should read this book... it's a definite must-read. I can't get any plainer than that. :)

This is a great book for Christmas time. It really gets you thinking about your life, and what a family means. I like how it didn't really have chapters. Each "segment" was introduced by a line in a Christmas carol and really pertained to the action of the story. I loved the ending too- I would have never guessed people could come together like that. This was my favorite Christmas book 4 years ago, and it's still my favorite today.

I thought this a wonderful Book and would recomend it to all. And for people who only think of themselves. I think this book would totally change their minds. Its About a little girl named Katie, a foster child, who gets to pick one wish and they will put it on a christmas tree in a restuarant on a tree and if that child is lucky someone will pick their wish and buy it for that child. Even though Katie says all she wants is a casset radio, what she really wants is a family. Two sixteen yr. old help make this possible. Read this book, it is truly a great story and it teachs you what christmas really is and how christmas isn't perfect for everyone and we should help. Buy this book and enjoy!

This book was really a tear jerker. I made me think of how fortunate I really am to have a loving and caring family.It's the type of novel that is hard to put down at times cause I was so curious about what was going to happen next. The author really went into depth about the feelings of each of the childer. I reccommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading novels by Caroline B.Cooney!