いのちのことば社・フォレストブックス
「最高の贈りものをあげよう」。謎めいた「サンタ」の誘いで小児病棟で手伝いをする少年モーは、紙袋をかぶった奇妙な少女に出会う。「サンタ」がモーに贈ろうとしたもの、そして「ペーパーバッグ（紙袋）クリスマス」の意味するものとは？ 本当のクリスマスを伝える感涙の物語。家族で読みたい一冊。
この本の書評はこちら>著者・訳者など：ケヴィン・アラン・ミルン/宮木陽子
ページ数：208頁
判型：四六判
ISBN：978-4-264-03380-6
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The Paper Bag Christmas
(Pehpah Baggu Kurisumasu)
Kevin Alan Milne
Fiction. Dr. Christopher K. Ringle is the last person you'd expect to find moonlighting as Santa Claus at the mall on the day after Thanksgiving. He is an amputee oncologist at a children's cancer unit. But it is at the mall that he meets a 9 year old boy named Molar Alan, who desperately needs to know Christmas is more than getting presents. Dr. Ringle recruits Mo and his older brother Aaron (11 years old) as volunteers at the children's hospital for the holiday season. At the hospital, Mo is tasked to help bring holiday cheer to the young cancer patients on the fifth floor through planning for a Christmas pageant of the birth of Jesus. His biggest challenge is befriending a decidedly angry girl, Katrina, who is so embarrassed by her scarred appearance that she hides her face behind the safety of a paper bag. Aaron befriends a Hindu boy, Madhu, who wants to learn about Christmas and wants to be a Wise Man who gives a gift to Jesus. Almost in spite of himself, Mo learns that is better to give than to receive, while Katrina learns that she is more beautiful than she had ever imagined. Forest Books. B6* size, 208 pp.
