The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey

Susan Wojciechowski, Wojciechowski. Candlewick Press (MA), $12.99 (40pp) ISBN 978-0-7636-1930-5

Now with a new cover and new size (8 11/16"" x 7 7/8""), The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey (1995) by Susan Wojciechowski, illus. by P.J. Lynch, pairs what PW's starred review called an ""elegant, poignant"" story, about the spiritual reawakening of a bitter man, with richly detailed watercolors of an early-American setting.

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