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• 图书类型：Picture Book
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Overview 简介：

Ivy, Holly, and Mr. and Mrs. Jones all have one Christmas wish. Ivy, an orphan, wishes for a real home and sets out in search of the grandmother she's sure she can find. Holly, a doll, wishes for a child to bring her to life. And the Joneses wish more than anything for a son or daughter to share their holiday. Can all three wishes come true? This festive tale is perfectly complemented by beloved Barbara Cooney's luminous illustrations, filled with the warm glow of the Christmas spirit.

Customer Review 顾客评论：

This is an absolutely enchanting and extremely moving Christmas tale for children. It centres on a little orphan girl, called Ivy, who is shunted off on Christmas Eve to the Infants’ Home, as there is nobody to look after her. Stubbornly, Ivy declares she will go to her ‘grandmother’ but she has no grandmother and so Miss Shepherd puts her on the train. However, Ivy gets off and goes in hunt of the home that must belong to her.

In the toyshop, a pretty doll called Holly is dressed for Christmas and longs for a little girl of her own to love her. When Ivy sees her through the window, they both know they belong together – but Ivy has no money and the glass separates them and then the shop closes…

Meanwhile, a lady called Mrs Jones puts up her Christmas tree and waits for her policeman husband to return from his beat. Mr Jones scoffs kindly at her preparations, but knows that she longs for a little girl of her own. The way that Rumer Goden brings together these three characters is absolutely masterly. This is story telling at its best, which will undoubtedly leave you feeling a little wrung out, but absolutely cheering at the end! If you read one story to your children at Christmas which absolutely invokes the spirit of the season, this should be it. At under 100 pages it is ideal to be read aloud to children of 4+.