The Christmas We Moved to the Barn

By Cooper Edens

Book Overview

Taffy's all set for a warm and cozy Christmas with her family, but then she's notified on Christmas Eve that they've got to move out of their house by midnight. Don't worry Taffy, her two daughters, and their twelve animals--an unusual and closeknit family--won't let the bad news get them down. Trekking back and forth across the snowy landscape, they move all of their belongings into an abandoned barn. And in the true spirit of the season, they clean up the barn, light the woodstove, hang their stockings, and put up their tree. It turns out to be a Christmas they'll never forget.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062051490
• ISBN13: 9780062051493
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 11.0" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 1 year and up
• Grade Range: Preschool and higher

Customer Reviews

The Christmas we moved to the barn

Delightful tale of twelve animals and three humans moving house on Christmas Eve. A warm-hearted fantasy world where all the animals do their share. It gives a hopeful message that even in hard circumstances, working together to a good plan the family can survive. The enchanting pictures remind me of The Tompten and other Scandinavian picture books. The magic things (such as Pinnochio) move with the creatures as well as the practical (the dryer!) A real Christmas classic, about hope and sharing, reminding us that the first Christmas was spent in the barn.