Renfroe's Christmas - Softcover

Burch, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0670050601 ISBN 13: 9780670050604

Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers, 1971

Synopsis

Book by Burch, Robert

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Burch has been praised by Atlanta Weekly magazine as "the author of some of the finest, most satisfying books for young people to be written in the South in this century." Author of nineteen books for children, Burch is a three-time winner of the Georgia Children's Book Award, an honor bestowed by the schoolchildren of the state. His story Queenie Peavy is a winner of the Children's Literature Association's Phoenix Award.

Review:

A gentle Christmas story, too merry to be sentimental but touched with sentiment. . . . The family scenes are natural and lively, the story giving a particularly pleasant picture of a rural community’s close-knit relationships.

(Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books)

The rural regional quality of the story is strong, the details of church pageant and party are relayed with humor, and the conversations abound in briskness and poignancy.

(Horn Book)

This understated story with its excellent characterizations has year-round as well as holiday appeal.

(Library Journal (starred review))

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0670050601
• ISBN 13: 9780670050604
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1