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An eight-year-old boy is mistakenly left behind during Christmas and has to defend his house against two burglars. All I Want for Christmas. Peter Pan is now an adult and must save his children from Captain Hook. Around Christmas, cynical detective and a disgraced quarterback team up to take down a professional sports betting syndicate.

Lost in New York. The Nightmare Before Christmas. Look Who's Talking Now. Bickering spouses annoy the cat burglar who takes them hostage in their Connecticut home before Christmas dinner with the family. When a man inadvertently kills Santa on Christmas Eve, he finds himself magically recruited to take his place. While You Were Sleeping film. Lonely transit worker Lucy pulls her longtime crush, Peter, from the path of an oncoming train. When Lucy doesn't correct them, they take her into their home and confidence.

How the Toys Saved Christmas. The story follows some toys as they struggle to avoid the heartless Mr. Grimm, that plans to auction off the toys to the highest bidder, and to find their true homes. The Long Kiss Goodnight. A suburban mother becomes the target of a criminal organisation after they see her playing the role of Mrs Claus in her home town's Christmas parade.

I'll Be Home for Christmas. A son in college has not been home since his mother died and his father remarried. His father offers his vintage car if he is home by a certain time for Christmas. Bill Harford experiences a series of dreamlike nocturnal erotic interactions juxtaposed against the back drop of Christmas in New York city.

After assuming his dead cellmate's identity to get with the other man's girlfriend, an ex-con finds himself a reluctant participant in a casino heist. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas. A wealthy bachelor wakes up on Christmas to find he's been transported to an alternate reality where he's a tire salesman with a wife and kids living in a middle class suburban neighborhood.

A man John Cusack and a woman Kate Beckinsale meet on Christmas Eve circa and reunite a decade later on the same day. A sequel to The Santa Clause. A girl's aunt tells her a story of a girl named Katie who loved ice skating and befriended a reindeer named Blizzard. Eight very different couples and their love lives intertwine during a hectic month before Christmas in London. Christmas with the Kranks. When a suburban couple decide to forgo Christmas festivities, preferring to take a cruise to the Caribbean instead, their neighbours refuse to allow such Scrooge-like behaviour.

A magical train takes a boy and other children up to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus. An adaptation of the beloved children's book. While visiting his hometown during Christmas, a man Ryan Reynolds comes face-to-face with his old high school crush whom he was best friends with -- a woman Amy Smart whose rejection of him turned him into a ferocious womanizer.

A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. A film set around the informal Christmas truce on the Western Front during Christmas Santa Claus is actually a demon who lost a bet with an Angel, so he becomes the giver of toys and happiness.

But when the bet is off, he returns to his evil ways. Sorority sisters are stalked and murdered on Christmas Eve in this remake of the thriller. Rival neighbors duke it out when one of them decides to light his house up so it can be seen from outer space. Two women swap homes at Christmastime after bad breakups with their boyfriends. The Santa Clause 3: What Would Jesus Buy? A documentary focusing on the commercialization of Christmas.

Nothing like the Holidays. The troubled Vuillard family is no stranger to illness, grief, and banishment, but when their matriarch requires a bone-marrow transplant, the estranged clan reunites just in time for Christmas.

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Against the advice of his doctor, Frank sets out on a road trip to reconnect with his offspring for Christmas. Set in the small Norwegian town of Skogli, this film looks at those who are desperately trying to re connect with their families. The Nutcracker in 3D. Set in s Vienna, this a tale of a little girl, whose godfather gives her a special doll one Christmas Eve. Live-action 3D adaptation of the ballet. In the depths of the Korvatunturi mountains lies the closest ever guarded secret of Christmas. A Spielberg-ian horror romp with an Christmas twist.

Santa's youngest son must deliver a bicycle to an overlooked girl before Christmas morning dawns.

Am aspiring music manager causes trouble for his father's Christmas tree business in an attempt to prove he can be a success. The Best Man Holiday.

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A street-wise teen from Baltimore who has been raised by a single mother travels to New York City to spend the Christmas holiday with his estranged relatives. In , an English village copes with the disappearance of a supposedly miraculous candle. Based on the novel by Max Lucado. Madea Tyler Perry dispenses her unique form of holiday spirit on rural town when she's coaxed into helping a friend pay her daughter a surprise visit in the country for Christmas.

Tony Stark deals with posttraumatic stress disorder caused by the events of The Avengers , while investigating a string of terrorist attacks led by the mysterious Mandarin , and comes into a conflict with an old enemy: A Merry Friggin' Christmas. Boyd Mitchler and his family must spend Christmas with his estranged family of misfits. Upon realizing that he left all his son's gifts at home, he hits the road with his dad in an attempt to make the 8-hour round trip before sunrise.

All Through the House. A Christmas Horror Story. The movie is a series of interwoven stories tied together by a framework story featuring William Shatner as a radio DJ. Comedy horror film based upon the legendary Christmas demon, and alter ego of Santa Claus. When four generations of the Cooper clan come together for their annual Christmas Eve celebration, a series of unexpected visitors and unlikely events turn the night upside down, leading them all toward a surprising rediscovery of family bonds and the spirit of the holiday.

An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman over the Christmas holidays in s New York. Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie teams up once again with his angry little sidekick, Marcus, to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve. When the CEO tries to close her hard-partying brother's branch, he and his Chief Technical Officer must rally their co-workers and host an epic office Christmas party in an effort to impress a potential client and close a sale that will save their jobs.

A holiday gathering threatens to go off the rails when Ned Fleming Bryan Cranston realizes that his daughter's millionaire boyfriend James Franco is about to pop the question. Ashley travels to the suburban home of the Lerners to babysit their year-old son Luke during the holidays. She must soon defend herself and the young boy when unwelcome intruders announce their arrival.

The Man Who Invented Christmas. In , author Charles Dickens sets out to write and self-publish a novel that he hopes will revive his career. A Bad Moms Christmas. A Christmas sequel to Bad Moms. A Christmas sequel to Daddy's Home. A former defense lawyer and a former FBI agent team up to stop the mafia and save Christmas at the Villa Capri resort. A computer-animated adventure comedy based on the Nativity of Jesus. A small but brave donkey and his animal friends become the unsung heroes of the first Christmas. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms.

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The story revolves Santa's daughter Anna Kendrick who is forced to take over the family business when her father decides to retire and brother Bill Hader ends up getting cold feet prior to his first big Christmas Eve flight. The story begins when Santa Claus goes missing while delivering presents on Christmas Eve. His wife, Margie Claus Melissa McCarthy , must then put together an unlikely rescue team and set off from the North Pole for the first time in decades to rescue Santa and save Christmas.

The Muppet Christmas Carol. Jim Henson 's creations tackle Charles Dickens ' festive favorite. Danger in the Manger. Dude, Where's My Donkey? This Ain't No Silent Night. Disney's The Christmas Star. A woman finds herself caught in a Christmas time loop , and tries to figure out how to break the cycle. The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue. In , three children travel to Washington in the hope of convincing President Hoover to release their wrongly-convicted father from jail in time for Christmas.

A Christmas Elf accidentally takes off in Santa's sleigh, crash lands in a small town and loses the magic toy bag. Beethoven must rescue the Elf, recover the bag from greedy crooks and return the sleigh to Santa in time to save Christmas. Benji's Very Own Christmas Story. Bernard and the Genie. Bernard is fired from his job and his girlfriend leaves him, both on Christmas Eve.

The girlfriend takes all of his possessions with her, leaving behind only an old lamp. His Christmas suddenly becomes brighter when he rubs it. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Booky and the Secret Santa. A young girl tries to make a happy Christmas for herself and her family during the s Great Depression. A wealthy manufacturer pays an impoverished single mother who works in his factory, and her daughter, to pretend to be his "family" at Christmastime, in order to impress a visiting old-fashioned tycoon interested in buying his company.

A Boyfriend for Christmas. Santa Claus is preparing to retire, and grooms an American businesswoman Whoopi Goldberg to be his replacement. Catch a Christmas Star. A young girl attempts to reunite her father with his high school sweetheart, who has since become a successful pop singer. In a world where the holidays are run by the efficient Bureau of Yuletide Affairs, a bitter and burned-out Ghost of Christmas Past decides to go AWOL while on a "mission" and leave his "target" stranded in A Child's Christmases in Wales.

Christmas at Water's Edge. An angel teams with a spoiled college coed to organize a Christmas concert at a community youth center. Based on the bestselling book of the same name, a couple and their daughter move in with a widow and discover a box containing the answer to the first gift of Christmas.

A Grinch-like thief retreats to her hometown for Christmas. Can the spirit of Christmas, combined with a stint babysitting her niece and nephew, rid her of her wicked ways? A soldier serving in Afghanistan receives a Christmas card from a Californian woman he has never met. He visits the town to find the inspiration behind the card. A brother and sister become embroiled in an adventure after they try to catch video evidence of Santa Claus on camera.

Christmas Comes to Willow Creek. Two truck-driving brothers attempt to transport a load of Christmas gifts from California to an economically strapped Alaska town. A stressed-out working couple hire a consultant to help them plan an elaborate Christmas party for the wife's boss and husband's relatives. Tells the story of the inspiration behind Thomas Kinkade 's painting The Christmas Cottage , and how the artist was motivated to begin his career after discovering his mother was in danger of losing their family home.

Sloan is beautiful, stylish, and on the fast track to success at her public relations firm. After her client Caitlin dies and becomes her own personal ghost of Christmas past, present, and future; she finds out first hand that her unethical ways needs to change and reuniting with a past jilted lover may be the answer. In a remake of the plot from Groundhog Day , a man has to repeat Christmas Day over and over until he realizes how selfish he has become and has to change his ways.

In a juvenile reworking of Groundhog Day , a self-centered teenager is forced to relive the same Christmas over and over again after his sister wishes it were Christmas every day. A small town preparing for Christmas is struck by a meteor that causes extreme, spontaneous ice. Two pen pals who have never met, decide to meet up at one of their home towns in Boston during the Christmas holiday.

Only one problem though, they have both sent pictures of their better looking friends to each other. In rural Cannan, Texas a clash of classmates, one a tough farm boy, the other a bright bookish black boy evokes an unlikely friendship. It's amidst the magic of Christmas the boys learn about family, hope and love despite living in the shadow of racism. Followed by the sequel Christmas Comes Home to Canaan. Both starring Billy Ray Cyrus. Neighbors along a quaint street in Cleveland suspend their annual Christmas tradition of lighting luminaria, out of respect for their neighbors whose son desperately needs a heart transplant.

A donor is found but a blizzard threatens the heart's delivery. A woman shares an impulsive elevator kiss with a handsome stranger, who turns out to be her boss's boyfriend. They start to care for each other as Christmas approaches. Christmas Lilies of the Field. Seasonal sequel to the theatrical film Lilies of the Field has its African-American protagonist returning to the chapel he had built in the Arizona desert for a group of German nuns.

A woman makes a list of things she wants for Christmas and learns the lesson, "Be careful what you wish for. Award-winning adaptation of Truman Capote's poignant, nostalgic reminiscence about his childhood best friend — a childlike elderly relative with whom he makes fruitcakes and other gifts, in Depression-era Alabama.

A story about a friendship between a boy, Buddy, and his older cousin, Sook, during Christmas time. Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U. The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey. A bereaved boy and his widowed mother commission a grumpy woodcarver to carve a nativity set and thus form a relationship that enables them all to put their sadness behind them and move on. A reclusive workaholic, estranged from her mother for ten years, learns after her death that she has an older sibling who was given up for adoption.

Though reluctant, she searches for her sibling with the help of her neighbor a military spouse who returned home while her husband recovers overseas from a combat injury; their son wants nothing more but for his dad to be home for Christmas. The Christmas Secret aka Flight of the Reindeer. A scientist sets out to prove that reindeer can fly, and along the way discovers the true meaning of faith, family, and Christmas. Trio of interlocking stories, adopted from the hit song of the same name.

A widowed mother struggles to prevent her candy shop from being put out of business by a hard-hearted businessman. A woman must face the hurts of her past while trapped with two strangers in her house for Christmas. Now-teenaged Ralphie Parker schemes to acquire a car for Christmas in this sequel to the theatrical film. A Christmas to Remember. During the Great Depression, a young boy is sent to Minnesota to live with his grandparents, who are still grieving the loss of their son in World War I.

A successful, yet stressed, host of a cooking show is injured while traveling to a remote mountain chalet on vacation. Discovered by a widower with three young children, she has developed retrograde amnesia and does not know who she is. A single mom visits her estranged father for Christmas, and is surprised to discover his hometown oddly resembles the North Pole. An elderly nun, who's been growing an evergreen tree for decades, forms a bond with a gardener who wants to fell it and display it at New York's Rockefeller Center for the holidays.

A Christmas Tree Miracle. A family hasn't celebrated Christmas since their son died on Christmas Day serving in the Gulf War , but end up doing so after meeting "Matthew", a hitchhiker who claimed to know their son while deployed. A businessman tries to uncover a family secret for his grandmother after he returns to a small town to modernize his family's real-estate company. Christmas with a Capital C. Traumatized by her mother's death, a 6-year-old girl stops talking but is cared for by her three uncles.

The story unfolds as all of them find the importance of family. A Christmas Without Snow. Clarence Odbody tries to help a young mother who is about to commit suicide. A young Latina in East Los Angeles meets an African-American Lowrider, and struggles to reconcile her faith and blossoming love affair while becoming dangerously involved in a religious attempt to clone Jesus. A Dennis the Menace Christmas. Dennis tries to inject his grinchy neighbor Mr. A Dog Named Christmas. The Dog Who Saved Christmas.

Made by Lifetime Television, this retelling of Dickens' A Christmas Carol features Susan Lucci in the title role of Elizabeth Scrooge, a hard-driven department store owner with no compassion and no time for Christmas joy until she receives a visit from three Christmas spirits. All the major male roles in this version have been changed to female characters. Six-year-old Eloise has various adventures at the Plaza Hotel prior to the holiday, in this adaptation of Kay Thompson's book.

Aspiring musician Evie Lee must return home to save the family's Christmas Tree farm and decide what's most important in life. A Fairly Odd Christmas. A woman and a photojournalist try to track down a mysterious Christmas hero with the help of an angel. A dying man attempts to reconcile with the family he had abandoned years earlier, by having them come to visit for Christmas.

Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas! A Grandpa for Christmas. The Greatest Store in the World. A family lose their home at Christmas and in desperation, stay in a department store over the Christmas period. Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever. The Heart of Christmas. The Lockes are devastated when they learn their young son Dax has cancer.

But with courage, determination and faith, they give Dax one last Christmas, even if it's in October. Hank Zipzer and the Christmas Catastrophe. It is Christmas and the Zipzer family are preparing for a new baby. Mr Joy hates Christmas and wants to cancel it altogether but Hank causes a Christmas catastrophe. His catastrophe causing leads to his friends being arrested, and a Christmas tree nearly gets plummeted into a crowd. But will everything go to plan before Hank's new baby brother is born?

His and Her Christmas. Rival newspaper columnists battle it out one to save his career advancement at a major newspaper, the other to save the small community newspaper who is her employer before finding romance. It's Hogswatch on the Discworld and the Hogfather has gone missing, requiring Death to take his place while his granddaughter Susan endeavors to find out what has happened.

A struggling artist working as waitress kidnaps one of her customers to bring home and meet her parents at Christmas. A hard school administrator comes to town to close down the school and falls for the charming school music teacher. A Holiday to Remember. Carolyn is leaving the big city with her daughter Jordi for her childhood village, deep in the forest. A made-for-TV sequel to theatrical original.

On Christmas Eve in , the Walton family of rural Virginia awaits the return of the family patriarch who went to look for work in a distant city. This television film led to The Waltons television series. Home for the Holidays. Four sisters return home to visit their father for Christmas, only to discover that someone is trying to kill him. The House Without a Christmas Tree.

A widower, still grieving from his wife's death, refuses to allow a Christmas tree in the home, to the dismay of his young daughter. A Scrooge-like book editor is visited by her inner child, who tries to help rekindle her sense of joy during the holidays. An aging Santa Claus struggles to prepare his cynical would-be successor to take over the job in time for Christmas.

When a young boy catches his mom kissing Santa, he decides to be as naughty as he can until he drives Santa back to the North Pole. It Came Upon the Midnight Clear. After suffering a fatal heart attack, a man Mickey Rooney is granted a brief return to life so that he can show his California-bred grandson Scott Grimes his first white Christmas in New York. It Happened One Christmas. A young businesswoman, despondent over the circumstances of her life, contemplates suicide, but is shown the value of her life by a guardian angel, in this feminist remake of It's a Wonderful Life starring the then recently liberated Marlo Thomas.

A modern "Christmas Carol" adaptation in which the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future mistakenly visit the neighbor of the man they were supposed to teach to love Christmas. Like Father, Like Santa. A ruthless toy tycoon who is also secretly the son of Santa Claus travels to the North Pole to put an end to an attempted coup. Love You Like Christmas.

A successful advertising executive, on a cross-country trip to attend a client's wedding, is stranded in Christmas Valley, Ohio, a town in love with Christmas. But her son, needing math tutoring, makes friends with a man from Maggie's past. The Man in the Santa Claus Suit. The lives of three different men are transformed by a magical Santa Claus costume rented to them by a mysterious shopkeeper. The Man Who Saved Christmas.

Fact-based drama of toy inventor A. Gilbert, a pacifist toymaker who is forced by the U. A young girl helps the monsters from her storybook defeat an evil witch that has stolen their voices because they sang better at Christmas carols than she did. The Most Wonderful Time of the Year. An aging Santa Claus is ready to retire but first he must convince his son to take over his job. Santa must pass his powers on to his chosen successor, but mistakenly passes them on to an ex con. The son of Santa Claus woos a single mom while masquerading as an ordinary man and working as a mall Santa.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure. Cousin Eddie and his family get stranded on what they think is a deserted island for Christmas in this sequel to the theatrical film. He and his father end up driving the Tree throughout the country and the tree become a national icon. A Chicago sports radio shock jock is changed by a Christmas season encounter with a year-old fan who is dying of cancer who forces him to be nice for a day. A woman finds herself in the possession of Santa's "Naughty or Nice book" and uses it for her own advantage.

The Night They Saved Christmas. An oil company dynamites in the North Pole in search of an oil field, unaware that they are endangering Santa Claus. A young boy and his new friend Clementine try to bring back the happiness of Christmas before it's too late. A ballerina is unable to perform in her dream role as The Sugar Plum Fairy due to the sudden death of her sister, which left her as her niece's guardian. Her niece becomes a ballerina herself and is invited to play Clara; the theater director is her aunt's former boyfriend who was to play the Prince in her aunt's performance.

Once Upon a Christmas Miracle. A woman is in serious need of a liver transplant; a complete stranger is found to be a perfect match. After the operation the two begin to have feelings for each other. She continues trudging towards her home in the snow, but she collapses. The nativity scene comes to life and hurries to help her. They are small figures; they look like they are about 3 feet tall. These tiny figures carry her to her trailer and put her in bed. Then they go to the town and to the same shop where the old woman sold her instrument.

Then they go to the grocery store and buy food. They are 3 feet tall figurines who are pushing a grocery cart. No one notices that it is kind of unusual. They get to her trailer, decorate it with a Christmas tree, and cook a meal for her. When the old woman awakens, she is incredulous to see food and to see her instrument. Mar 28, Emily Allen rated it really liked it.

I would have to agree! Being a wordless picture book, the illustrations were everything. At first I was taken a back by the almost faceless characters, but Peter Collington brought these characters to life in other ways. The story follows a woman who lives in a trailer, for lack of a better word. When she wakes up one morning to a growling stomach, she checks the bread box only to see that's it's empty. She opens up her money case and when she sees it's empty as well, she heads to town with her accordion in hand.

After trying unsuccessfully to make some money on street playing her instrument, she decides to sell it to the local pawn shop. After selling it, she is robbed of her new money by a man on a motorcycle. Walking back home completely distraught, she passes by the local church, only to see the same thief taking the money collected for poor from the church's sanctuary. She's able to wrestle the money away from the thief, put back together the nativity scene that was disheveled in the altercation, and heads home.

It's on her journey back home that the story takes an incredible twist! The idea of a wordless picture book was foreign to me until I read this book.

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I think these types of books are great for developing kid's imaginations and their abilities to look for context clues and details in illustrations. These would be encouraging for children who can't yet read but still wan't to enjoy a good story. I really like this book, and I like the message of doing the right thing in the face of evil, and taking care of one another, because that's what community is for! Feb 24, Emma Hoyer rated it it was amazing Shelves: Sometimes, that praise and retribution will come in a form you least expect. Thankfully, for the life of the old woman in this story, her retribution came in the form of the things she needed most: I felt a jarring pang of sadness when the thief steals her dollar that she sold her accordion for.

Without words, this story is able to capture a wonderful and unique Christmas tale. I would definitely show this book to my children, and I want to be able to do the same with the students in my classroom one day. This book would work for any age, young or old. I feel as though books without words can mean a lot more to a variety of ages and other demographics, simply because you can infer so much from just images.

A Small Miracle

That being said, the images need to be powerful enough to evoke emotion and tell a great story. Peter Collington does just that with this book, and I have had the greatest privilege to have been able to read this book. Feb 01, Courtney Turpen rated it really liked it Shelves: A small miracle is wordless book and a story about a small elderly lady. She wakes up one morning and she goes to her cabinets to look for some food.

Come to find out she has nothing there to eat. She goes to town to play her accordion and make a little cash to get some food at the market. When she is on the sidewalk playing her instrument some man steals her money and takes it away. She chases him to the church and sees him coming out the doors stealing more money. She knocks over his bike and A small miracle is wordless book and a story about a small elderly lady. She knocks over his bike and takes the money back into the church where she finds a huge mess of doll figurines all over the floor of shepherds and baby jesus.

Once she replaces the money and all the figurines she heads home still with no food. On the way she becomes weak and falls into the snow. The small figurines from the church come alive and take her to her home. They put her in bed, buy back her accordion, and go to the grocery for her. When she wakes up she finds all the new items in her house and have no idea who has helped her. This book was for older children to say the least. The pictures were very descriptive and lively. The colors were a little dull, but the pictures were very clear to see.

The illustrations went great with the story yet it would take time to analyze.



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It was a great way of showing how good deeds are encouraged and turns out wonderful for the small old lady. Being good always gets people farther in life and this story showed the true meaning of being honest and kind, and the rewards that follow. Sep 22, LLash rated it really liked it. In fact, at first I forgot it was supposed to be a wordless book and I was confused.

I then had to start over and really focus on the story through the illustrations. Speaking of illustrations, I felt they were well-done enough to understand the story and what happened throughout the story, however, I really did not like the drawing of the woman, the main character. I felt as though she was terrifying looking! The story had a very touching theme to it, however. While feeling sad and sorry for the woman in the beginning, I felt proud of her in the middle, and then in the end, I felt she deserved the miracle she was given by the make-believe Jesus figures.

It was a miracle all right and very touching. It reminded me of Christmas and the importance of giving and kindness. I did enjoy this wordless book, it just made me have to really focus on the illustrations more than I normally do. Jan 07, Stephanie Croaning rated it liked it Shelves: This is a quirky little book that kind of grows on you!

It features an accordion player, a thief, and a nativity that comes to life. It starts out very depressing, and then is almost comical as the small nativity characters in the church come to life to help the old woman. So what did I like about the book? I love wordless picture books, and the illustrations in this one are beautifully detailed and tell the story well.

I like that it is different and original. And quite frankly, you should read This is a quirky little book that kind of grows on you! And quite frankly, you should read this book just to see the scene depicting the Three Wise Men pushing a cart with groceries through the local supermarket while absolutely no one gives them a second glance! Seriously, the checkout girl just smiles as the accordion-toting, itty-bitty Wise Man hands over the cash.

Feb 17, Lora Hall rated it it was amazing Shelves: This book tells a wonderful story without saying a word. I was amazed at the author's ability to communicate emotions through pictures. This is a wonderful book for children when teaching them about giving and receiving. During the group read aloud the other students in my group felt that this story contributes to building hope in humanity. The old woman is at a dead end and has not options in sight. Even though she is suffering she still shows care for others, this leads to her life being saved This book tells a wonderful story without saying a word.

Even though she is suffering she still shows care for others, this leads to her life being saved the characters from the nativity scene save her life, buy her accordion back from the pawn shop and fix her food. It is a wonderful story and I definitely recommend it. Oct 10, Kayla Bennett rated it it was amazing Shelves: This was a very inspiring story that gave me comfort in my trials and there is always ways you can serve an many will return it back. It really touched me that she took the time to fix the nativity.

She took time and gave it to our Savior. It made me reflect how much I have done in my life to help others in their journey. Have I benefited anyone? He will always provide a way for us. She was taken care of by the nativity characters and she did not know it. This has a really good meaning to it tha This was a very inspiring story that gave me comfort in my trials and there is always ways you can serve an many will return it back. This has a really good meaning to it that would teach a valuable lesson to children I feel.

Jan 29, Sydney rated it it was amazing Shelves: This is a beautiful book in art and in the story line. Since there are now words, the illustrations are really designed to show emotions. I could feel those emotions flipping through the pages. I thought it was a heartwarming story and it teaches a lesson of compassion and acts of service. It was a little strange to see the statues she set back up come to life and serve her in return but it is a sweet thought.

It could be used to teach lessons of kindness and to show that when you see someone i This is a beautiful book in art and in the story line. It could be used to teach lessons of kindness and to show that when you see someone in need, we should help them out in any way possible. Truly an inspiring read. Nov 26, Trace rated it it was amazing Shelves: Luke and I "read" this book together this evening.

Well, we didn't actually read it because there are no words. But the story is so well done, there are no need for words. This book literally made me cry. Such a beautiful story of a Christmas miracle. Looks like this will need to be purchased to add to our library. Unanimous decision between the Lukester and I: Dec 30, Vicki rated it it was amazing Shelves: I'm not a fan of wordless books, but this has to be my favorite.

The illustrations have fantastic crisp plain detail which children will enjoy looking at. A few things I noticed and loved were Mary sitting with the old woman, Joseph the carpenter repairing the wood floor, and the old woman's home reminded me of the tv show "Tiny House" currently on HGTV! The title truly portrays the story in the book and the message of Christmas.

Feb 23, Missy rated it it was amazing. I absolutely love this cute little story. It's told entirely through illustrations without words and would be the perfect addition to any family's Christmas book collection. I read this a few years ago and tried to purchase it through Amazon for Christmas this past year. I just got notification it should be here before May. A couple of times since ordering, Amazon has given me the option to cancel the order. But this book is worth waiting for and I'm anxious to add it to our library. Oct 03, Blair Herron rated it liked it.

I liked this book, especially the part where the old woman was being taken care of when she became sick by the people in the nativity set that she had so diligently looked after. The illustrations were great in the fact that they showed every step that happened in the plot, and were very realistic.

They would definitely help a beginning reader to put the plot line of a story together through the pictures that show the story line. Jan 29, Kate rated it it was amazing Shelves: Rare is the book that can say so much without saying a word. A Small Miracle is a beautiful book composed entirely of pictures.

It follows the Christmas Even journey of a poor gypsy woman who is saved from certain starvation by a true Christmas miracle. Every picture is a work of art, and the story is so beautifully moving and sweet. You are doing yourself a disservice if you miss this one. For kids of all ages. Dec 20, Sarah rated it it was amazing. I would love to have this Christmas book on our shelves but sadly it is out of print. The story is all told through pictures and is so cute. The nativity comes to life help a poor old woman. The illustrations are wonderful and it is so fun to see the wise men shopping in the grocery, Joseph fixing floor boards and Mary comforting the sick woman.

This illustrator has done a number of other books as well. I am going to have to find a few others. Dec 21, ABC rated it it was ok Shelves: This is a wordless book for Christmas. An old woman is literally rescued by figures from a nativity scene They drag her home from the snow where she has passed out, they go shopping and fix her a Christmas dinner