![]() ![]() The woodcarver’s secret anguish – a wife and child lost years ago – is gently revealed, and his miraculous transformation from a lonely, lost soul to a caring, loving man is gradual and affecting. ![]() ![]() Every day as he works on the figures the widow and son visit, and the boy eventually wins his trust and love, resulting in the miracle: an emotional reawakening for the lonely woodcarver.Ī heartwarming Christmas tale that never descends into sentimentality, thanks to the restraint and subtle craft of the author. One day he receives a request from a widow and her son to carve a nativity scene. Interests: Christmas, art, wood carving, Christian religionĪlso by this illustrator: When Jessie Came Across the SeaĪ grim and unfriendly woodcarver keeps to himself in a New England town at the turn of the (last) century. ![]()
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