The Silver Whistle - Hardcover

Tompert, Ann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0027891607 ISBN 13: 9780027891607

Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co, 1988

Synopsis

Having generously aided the needy with money he'd earned to buy a silver whistle for a gift to the Christ Child on Christmas Eve, a Mexican boy approaches the manger in the cathedral in embarrassment, only to find that he has pleased the Baby Jesus after all.Having generously aided the needy with money he'd earned to buy a silver whistle for a gift to the Christ Child on Christmas Eve, a Mexican boy approaches the manger in the cathedral in embarrassment, only to find that he has pleased the Baby Jesus afterall

About this title

From School Library Journal:

Grade 1-3 Miguel is set in his determination to sell the clay whistles that he makes and purchase a silver one to present at the shrine of the Infant on Christmas Day. Due to his kind heart, he finds himself divested of funds and is left with only a clumsy clay whistle, the first he ever made, to present. Yet it is this gift that earns the place of honor at the shrine, and the special favor of the Infant. This Christmas story, set in Mexico, is sweet without being saccharine, but the straightforward telling lacks dramatic punch. Peck's ink and watercolor illustrations are workmanlike but uninspired. Still, for collections that need books on Christmas customs, this is worth consideration. Ann Welton, Lake Dollof Elementary School, Auburn, Wash.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Pub Co
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0027891607
• ISBN 13: 9780027891607
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32