Silver packages : an Appalachian Christmas story / by Cynthia Rylant ; paintings by Chris K. Soentpiet.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Orchard Books, 1997.Description: [32] p. : col. ill. ; 27 cmISBN:- 053130051X
- 0531330516 (lib. bdg.)
- [E] 21
- PZ7.R982 Si 1997
Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Materials specified | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Picturebook | Children’s Holiday | Rylant, Cynthia | Christmas | Available | 33111004040743 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In Appalachia each Christmas, a boy named Frankie waits beside the tracks for the Christmas Train, which will bring presents to the children who live in coal towns and hollows. Year after year, Frankie hopes that one particular gift -- one very special gift -- will be tossed to him from that train. And it is this enduring hope that will guide him to the true meaning of the season.
"A Richard Jackson book"--Half t.p.
Every year at Christmas a rich man rides a train through Appalachia and throws gifts to the poor children who are waiting, in order to repay a debt he owes the people who live there.
BKM.