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A Christmas Picture Book: Season Eight

Note: This pictorial eBook contains large images and is designed to be viewed on an actual tablet. It can also be viewed on a a Mac with iBooks. Viewing it on a tablet or a Mac will allow the images to be enlarged and explored.

Somehow, the need to be kind and generous and tolerant seems more urgent than ever, and that need was very much on my mind as I arranged my Christmas mantel village and imagined the story that would accompany it. When I was finished, I had to ask myself: is this really a Christmas story? And the answer is that -- in the truest spirit of this season of love and hope -- it is.

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A Fire in the Village



The story this season: Mayor Pittman has lost his bid to become a United States senator. For the past few days he has been consulting with his advisors about the next step. Suddenly, in the thick of all the conflicting advice comes a call for the most urgent form of action: there has been a fire in the village.







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