The Best Christmas

by Jane B. Mason, Sarah Hines Stephens

A heartwarming Christmas story about Hattie Best, a headstrong young girl (Junie B. Jones meets Annie) who must bring her Depression-era family together for Christmas.

Poor Hattie. Her mother has died and her father is traveling across America looking for work during the depression. She has to live with her two fussy aunts and her pipsqueak brother, as well as the stuck-up new girl on the farm next door. Christmas is coming and Hattie isn't in the spirit. But then she decides she will make enough money to bring her father home . . . and make the Best family's Christmas the most wonderful one ever!

Genres: Christmas

128 pages, Hardcover

Published October 1, 2002

About the author

Jane B. Mason grew up in a large family in northern Minnesota. She has written books for kids of all ages under many names and on many subjects, among them ghosts, Jedi, detective duos, princesses, twins, mean girls, and slam books.

Jane has lived in the midwest and on both coasts, but appears to have settled in Oakland, California, and writes almost every day at either a friend's dining room table or a little studio in her back yard, where she has a purple loveseat, a whole lotta books, and an odd selection of trinkets she has unwittingly been collecting since she was a child.

Reviews

[♥ The Book Snob ♥ · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read The Best Christmas when I was 12. So naturally, I felt this was a great book. I loved all the characters and the ending. It was so perfect. So this is the twelve-year-old version of me speaking.

It still gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling inside whenever I think about the book though :D

♥ XOXO ♥

[Lisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

It’s a children’s book. Sweet story of a girl wanting her dad home for Christmas.

[Theresa Lange · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good!