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The Legend of the Candy Cane: The Inspirational Story of Our Favorite Christmas Candy
By Lori Walburg and James Bernardin
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One dark November night a stranger rides into a small prairie town. Who is he? Why has he come? The townspeople wish he were a doctor, a dressmaker, or a trader. But the children have the greatest wish of all, a deep, quiet, secret wish. Then a young girl named Lucy befriends the newcomer. When he reveals his identity and shares with her the legend of the candy cane, she discovers fulfillment of her wishes and the answer to her town's dreams. Now will she share what she has learned? Warm, lavish illustrations by James Bernardin bring to life a timeless tale by Lori Walburg, a story that will help families celebrate the mystery and miracle of Christmas—for many Christmases to come.
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Lori Walburg
Lori Walburg is a freelance editor, a writer for the NIrV Kid's Devotional Bible, and the author of The Legend of the Easter Egg. She lives with her family in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This fiction story tells the legend of the Candy Cane and tries to remind a town of the real meaning of Christmas. A small town gets a new storekeeper. Each member of the town is wishing for a certain type of store, but the children wish the hardest. The store turns out to be a candy store. A little girl goes to help the candy man with setting up his store and is taught the message of the Candy Cane, which they then go and share with all in the town. This brings happiness and joy to the town just in time for Christmas. The books is a very easy read-out loud book. The best part are the illustrations, which are paintings. Each image conveys the story. Most have people in them and the illustrator made the expressions exaggerated to help push the emotions that the characters would be feeling at the moment. This book has a throughly Christian message, so it may not be a good book to read out loud in a class. However, if a teacher is doing a unit on different holidays and their symbols, this would be a good book to use. It also helps to remind those of us who are Christians, the real meaning of Christmas that tends to get lost in the all wrappings and bows. Recommended for ages 4 and up.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Kids will love the quaint, simple story of how a man and a littlegirl brought the joy of christmas to those around them by somethingas simple as a piece of candy.(10+)
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This was an explicityly religious Christmas story about a town that gets a new candy store (that's kind of incongrous, ha ha). The owner of the candy story tells a little girl about the origin of the candy cane. They then deliver candy canes to all the townspeople and invite them to the grand opening of the store.I'm not sure I'm happy with the idea that the red stripe in a candy cane represents Jesus' blood, but whatever! That definitely has more to do with the idea of eating dried blood than anything else. This would probably make a nice Christmas story at a Sunday school or in a Christian school setting. I did really like the illustrations, which are sort of Norman Rockwell-esque at times. There's a nice one of the little girl opening a giant box filled with lots of different types of candy that I drooled over. It's sort of odd, but it almost looks like the cover illustration was done by a different artist altogether. Weird.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This fiction story tells the legend of the Candy Cane and tries to remind a town of the real meaning of Christmas. A small town gets a new storekeeper. Each member of the town is wishing for a certain type of store, but the children wish the hardest. The store turns out to be a candy store. A little girl goes to help the candy man with setting up his store and is taught the message of the Candy Cane, which they then go and share with all in the town. This brings happiness and joy to the town just in time for Christmas. The books is a very easy read-out loud book. The best part are the illustrations, which are paintings. Each image conveys the story. Most have people in them and the illustrator made the expressions exaggerated to help push the emotions that the characters would be feeling at the moment. This book has a throughly Christian message, so it may not be a good book to read out loud in a class. However, if a teacher is doing a unit on different holidays and their symbols, this would be a good book to use. It also helps to remind those of us who are Christians, the real meaning of Christmas that tends to get lost in the all wrappings and bows. Recommended for ages 4 and up.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This Christmas story is a story within a story. The story has charm and I would even say magic, the type of which Chrristmas is made. The illustrations evoke the time period in which it is set, the late 1800s.
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