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Paula in MN
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Posted: Dec 21 2006 at 1:49pm \| IP Logged

A new(er) book by John McCutcheon. I just saw an artile for it in my Diocese paper. Has anyone here read it?

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Posted: Dec 21 2006 at 5:33pm \| IP Logged

Paula, paula...

I went to look this up on the library catalog and they were all checked out. Come to find out the one from my branch is in my library basket here at home.

We will dig it out tonight (a metaphor for what we've been doing all day

) and read it and I'll let you know. It comes with a CD but not sure what's on it.

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Posted: Dec 21 2006 at 6:09pm \| IP Logged

Thanks Gwen. Us Grandmothers need to stick together! Your snow made it here - I'll be digging tomorrow!!

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Posted: Dec 21 2006 at 6:45pm \| IP Logged

We currently have the book, too. I got it for Veteran's Day but held off reading it until a couple weeks ago, since I thought it did fit better with Christmas. It is a well done picture book - not much detail which is probably good for the younger ones since war can be hard to cover. The story behind the book - how a group of German and English troops had a cease-fire on Christmas Eve during WWI. They got together and shared food, small gifts, played soccer, and the singing of Silent Night in German and English. The story in the book is told from the view point of a fictional English grandpa telling the story to his grandchildren. There is a tape that goes along with it - the story read by the author, a version of Silent Night sung in both English and German, and a version of the folk song that the author first wrote which inspired him to write the picture book.

Another children's book version of the same story - War Game which I think was made into a short movie. This one emphaizes the soccer game which isn't the focus of the McCutcheon version.

Another book (not children's though) on the Christmas truce - Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce

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Posted: Dec 22 2006 at 3:02am \| IP Logged

We read War Game recently and I put a review on my blog here.

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