Coming Through the Blizzard by Eileen Spinelli illustrated by Jenny Tylden-Wright

It is Christmas Eve and a blizzard blows into town.  A minister clears the pathway to the church and wonders if anyone will attend the service.
The story then relates the various individuals-human and nonhuman-who enter the church that stormy eve.
It would be interesting to discuss with children what the author meant by the last two lines, "A stranger came in.  Then . . . Christmas came."
Strategy: inferring, asking questions
Borrowed from the library.