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CBC Showcase: Holidays Around the World

A charming story about life on the prairie in the 1880s, Prairie Christmas follows eleven-year-old Emma and her doctor mother as they venture out to deliver a baby on Christmas Eve.

coverPrairie Christmas

by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk, illustrated by BRonald Himler

Eleven-year-old Emma is disappointed when she learns her mother, a doctor, has to deliver a baby on Christmas Day. But when she arrives with Mama at the house, Emma realizes she isn't the only one whose Christmas has been interrupted. Young Hansie and Will are sad about missing the holiday and anxious about their new sibling's arrival. Overcoming her own feelings of frustration, Emma works to create a special Christmas that the two young children won't forget.


Ages 5 and up
ISBN: 0802852807
Price: $17.00
Publisher: Eerdmans Books for Young Readers

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