“The Christmas Orange” is a classic Christmas story full of grandmotherly wisdom and wonder. It is a story of compassion, gratitude, generosity, and the miracle of life and love that is so often celebrated at Christmas.
For the poorest of the poor to feel that they “have so much” and to marvel that they have been “given more” makes this story a gift worth sharing every year. This is the story the author and his colleagues have traditionally read to their students on the last day of school before Christmas vacation--handing each child a tissue-wrapped mandarin orange as a gift and, often, their own personalized copy of the story to share with family and friends.
