Spending the holidays with those you love best is what Christmas is all about. This is what a little girl learns as she travels with her mother to join her grandmother in an Appalachian coal mining town. Life is not easy in coal country--but in this tightly knit community, traditions are nurtured and passed along year after year, along with an undeniable hope and optimism. And on Christmas night, as the child snuggles into bed with both her mother and grandmother, she knows it's more than blankets that are keeping her warm--it's also memories and the love of her family.

 

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2003 by Boyds Mills Press .

Elizabeth Ferguson Brown, whose grandfather was a coal miner in Pennsylvania lives in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. Harvey Stevenson is the author and illustrator of a number of picture books. He lives in Paris, France.