The Saint Nicholas Day Snow - Hardcover

Riggle, Charlotte

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0984612459 ISBN 13: 9780984612451

Publisher: Phoenix Flair Press, 2017

Synopsis

The Saint Nicholas Day Snow begins on the morning of St. Nicholas Eve. Catherine's best friend, Elizabeth, is coming for a sleepover. They'll share a day filled with warm cookies, squabbles with siblings, holiday traditions, and the excitement of an unexpected snowstorm. It's all familiar, comfortable, and delightful.

And yet Elizabeth is worried. She's spending the night with Catherine because her grandmother is ill, and her parents are heading to the hospital to see her. The brief references to Elizabeth's grandmother in the main story are developed into a fully realized wordless story-within-a-story in the corner of each spread. Both stories are filled with kindness, prayer, faith, and love.

And snow.

At the end of the day, the girls set out their shoes (with apples and carrots for St. Nicholas's horse), and their parents pray and keep vigil for Elizabeth's grandmother. All of them, in the end, receive joy.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Shoes or stockings?

Horse or reindeer?

Does St. Nicholas come on December 6 or on Christmas Eve?

Will a little girl's prayer be answered?

When Elizabeth has to stay at Catherine's house, she's worried about her grandmother, and worried that St. Nicholas won't find her.

The grownups, though, are worried about the snow.

Charlotte Riggle and R.J. Hughes, the award-winning author and illustrator of Catherine's Pascha, team up again to bring you The Saint Nicholas Day Snow.

Edition details

• Publisher: Phoenix Flair Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0984612459
• ISBN 13: 9780984612451
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Hughes R J
• Number of pages: 48