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One Wintry Night: Book Review & Giveaway

Congrats to Jill who won the Totally Awesome, Super-Cool Bible Stories book giveaway.

A snowy night, a warm cabin, and a boy who hears the Christmas story told for the first time—beginning with Creation and ending with the Resurrection…..

One Wintry Night

In One Wintry Night, Young Zeb is lost and hurt in a snowstorm in the mountains. He finds a safe haven in a cabin with a woman who shares the Christmas story with him. But this isn’t just any version of the Christmas story. This one begins with the beginning, in the Garden of Eden, and goes through the Resurrection.

We’ve been reading this book as Emma’s bedtime story, one chapter each night. We’re enjoying the story and all three saying WOW at the illustrations. You can see a couple  of examples in the flipbook sample of One Wintry Night. My favorites are wrinkly old Noah and the lion from Daniel’s story. The detail is stunning.

“Ruth Bell Graham has written the perfect Christmas book . . . with imaginative, stunning pictures. It is a book children and adults will love. The story is tried and true, well-told, and important. I can see children around the world sitting with a parent or grandparent saying, ‘Then what happened?’ or, ‘Turn the page. Let’s see the next picture.’ I love this story and I love this book.” — Barbara Bush

If you’re looking for a way to explain how a baby’s coming could save the world, One Wintry  Night is a great book to tie it all together. Ruth Bell Graham does a fantastic job of leading us on a journey through the Bible.

The Giveaway

One Simple Pen reader is going to win a copy of One Wintry Night.

One Wintry Night

To Enter: Leave a comment on this post.

Want an extra entry? Tell us about your favorite Christmas book traditions. Do you read together on Christmas Eve? Do you have your kids make Christmas storybooks of their own?

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Entries will remain open until Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 9 p.m. EST. One winner (US addresses only) will be randomly chosen. The winner will be emailed and will have 48 hours to respond. If there is no response, a new winner will be chosen. 

Disclosure: I was provided with a copy of One Wintry Night to review. All opinions are – as always – honest and my own (especially that part about liking Noah & the lion!). 

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Comments

  1. In a world of ever-growing commercialism, reading a true Christmas book each year would be a great way to guarantee that my kids understand the real reason for the season from an early age. Plus, I trust your judgement on things like this, Jen. Thanks for sharing! 🙂

  2. I forgot …. our Christmas book traditions: I keep our Christmas-themed books packed away throughout the year and break them out on the day after Thanksgiving. Because they don’t get attention throughout the rest of the year, the kids are so excited to see and hear them again that we read and re-read them throughout the Christmas season. It’s fun to see which book(s) become their favorite(s) as they grow older. 🙂

  7. We have a whole set of books that we like to read just through December, as a tradition. I also love reading the Christmas story from the Bible with our kiddos on Christmas Eve. Another tradition is lighting an Advent candle/wreath at breakfast each day until Jesus is born! 🙂

  12. We don’t have a tradition of reading a specific book, but we do read holiday and winter themed books all season long for our bed time stories. One book that makes a frequent appearance is ‘One Winter’s Day’ by M. Christina Butler. My kids’ love this story of sharing and kindness.

  15. Would love to add this book to my Christmas collection. We need more good books to read. Thanks for the opportunity to enter to win. Merry Christmas!