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Lisbet
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Why didn't anyone warn me???? 
I FINALLY checked out this book over the weekend. I read it on the way to a family gathering and arrived with raccoon eyes and mascara streaks down my cheeks!! This book is really a treasure!
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Ooops...we should have warned you. I cry every year reading it.
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 me too!
This one and An Orange for Frankie
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I just ordered the dvd for my children for Christmas. This book just had me in buckets - also the Frankie one.
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Yep...these Christmas books would/do make great Hallmark movies!!!
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I read this to my children last year during Advent. I felt the same way! It came so highly recommended, with good reason, but geesh , I wish I had been warned. What a tearjerker!
And it figures I didn't preread it, so I was in tears, along with my dd12 as I read it aloud to her and her siblings. My younger 2 didn't quite "get it", though, and didn't understand why we were crying.
It's one of my all time favorites now.
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Jonathan Toomey is also available on DVD. The Hearth and Home Coop has it right now on the Christmas DVD open buy. But the buy closes next Monday 1 December. It's on for $10.25, retails for $13. There are TONS of other videos for Christmas available, too.
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Last year we bought a set on clearance with the book and the book on CD read by James Earl Jones. We didn't have a working CD player at the time but do now. Has anyone listened to the Jones reading of the book? How is it? Am I going to cry any harder when I hear his rich voice?
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Both books bring on my tears every time. Thanks for reminding me to get them out! :-)
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I just stumbled across the DVD- what age range would you recommend it for?
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Sarah,
We're getting it through the coop for our family to watch together. I'm looking forward to it!
Blessings,
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Oh, Lisa, I love that book, too!
My mom bought it for my oldest girl a few years ago...it came w/ a CD of the book being read aloud by James Earl Jones--fantastic!!!
I'm glad we have it on CD b/c I always get choked up at the end just listening to it!
It's a good one for me to listen to when I'm feeling like "Mrs. Gloomy"  Helps me to re-focus on what is REALLY important.
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