It's Christmas Eve and Mami has bought a delicious roast for a Christmas feast. But, oh no! It's too big to fit in the oven. Jose and Papa need to find an oven big enough to cook Mami's roast. As they walk from door to door through their apartment building, no one seems to be in the Christmas spirit. So they head down the street to find someone willing to help, and only when they do, lo and behold, the scent--the itself magical smell--of dinner begins to spread, and holiday cheer manifests in ways most unexpected.

Sonia Manzano from Sesame Street and two-time Caldecott Honor-recipient Marjorie Priceman have cooked up a Christmas tale about how the simplest things--like the tantalizing smell of Christmas dinner and the sharing of it--can become a holiday miracle.

This book has been graded for interest at 4-8 years.

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2015 by Simon & Schuster .

Sonia Manzano is best known as "Maria," one of the first Hispanic characters on Sesame Street , a role she has delighted in for more than twenty years. She has earned fifteen Emmy Awards as a member of the Sesame Street writing staff, and is the author of the picture books No Dogs Allowed! , A Box Full of Kittens , and the Pura Belpre Award honored The Revolution of Evelyn Serrano . Sonia Manzano lives in New York City with her husband. Marjorie Priceman has won Caldecott Honors for Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin by Lloyd Moss and for Hot Air: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Hot-Air Balloon Ride , which she also wrote. She lives in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.