The Twenty-Four Days Before Christmas: An Austin Family Story
(Book #0.5 in the Austin Family Chronicles Series)
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Book Overview
Vicky Austin's family does one special thing each day of December to prepare for Christmas. This year, they're also preparing for the birth of a new brother or sister, due after the New Year. Vicky is worried that the baby will come early--what kind of Christmas Eve would it be without Mother to help them hang up stockings and sing everyone to sleep with carols? This classic story of an old-fashioned Christmas is accompanied by merry illustrations by Jill Weber.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0374380058
ISBN13:9780374380052
Release Date:September 2010
Publisher:Farrar Straus Giroux
Length:45 Pages
Weight:0.47 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.3" x 7.2"
Age Range:4 to 8 years
Grade Range:Preschool to Grade 3
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
My all time favorite Christmas book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
If you love Madeleine L'Engle's books, then this is a definite "must have" for the holidays. Read about the Austin family as they prepare for Christmas, the church pageant, and a new addition to the family. Their warmth and love for each other are contagious, and yet they are a "real" family, growing pains and all. This is a fabulous book for young girls - and one to read every year in preparation for the holiday season.
Advent and preparation - a great kids book for adults too
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
L'Engle's prequel to the Austin Family series extols the virtues of patience and love as a young Vicky waits for the anvent of Christmas and a new baby. Adults and children alike will enjoy savoring the book in anticipation of the holiday. It's a great tool for slowing down the comercialized pace of the season. I'd reccomend the illustrated hardback, but I'm afraid it's out of print!
Read this book to young children at Christmas time.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
Against the backdrop of the approaching Christmas holiday, her role in the church play, and her family's wonderful holiday traditions, young Vicky Austin experiences feelings of rivalry for a sibling not yet born, and whose impending birth threatens to disrupt the holiday. This is a warm, loving book. It is an excellent story for older children, and I would recommend making the reading of it, chapter by chapter, part of a family's preparation for Christmas, like a literary advent calendar
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