This book celebrates family, traditions, and rural living. The watercolor illustrations are precise, expressive, and detailed.
All year the Bryan family awaits the day near Christmas when they gather to make cream candy (the description reminds me of pulled taffy?). Cousins, aunts, uncles, and a grandmother drive from far away to stay at the farm where the narrator (I can't figure out his name . . .his Great Gram calls him by the wrong name throughout the entire book!!), his parents, his brothers, and Great-Gram live. This Christmas the narrator's dog, Luke, goes missing and causes him to be distracted from the festivities.
*Highly recommend. Please add it to your stack of Christmas read alouds!
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