The wee Christmas cabin / retold by Margaret Hodges ; illustrated by Kimberly Bulcken Root.
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TextPublication details: New York : Holiday House, c2009.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 27 cmISBN: - 0823415287 (hardcover)
- 9780823415281 (hardcover)
| 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
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Main Library | Children's Picturebook | Children’s Holiday | Hodges, Margaret | Christmas | Available | 33111005698333 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
All of her life Oona dreams of having a cabin of her own, but no lad will marry the abandoned daughter of traveling tinkers. So Oona moves from cabin to cabin, helping wherever there is trouble or need. When the Great Famine comes and the last of the potatoes is eaten, Oona knows she must leave. She sets out on a snowy Christmas Eve, bidding a silent farewell to the village, and finally drifts off to sleep under a thron bush. But it's a white Christmas, and she wakes to find hundreds of fairies making her dream come true.
"Retold from 'The wee Christmas cabin of Carn-na-ween' in The Long Christmas by Ruth Sawyer ... 1941"--T.p. verso.
A tinker's child who grows up helpng everyone in her Irish village is rewarded in her old age with a cabin built by fairies on Christmas Eve.