A Christmas to Remember: Tales of Comfort and Joy

Dear Canada

by Karleen Bradford, Jean Little, Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

Find out what’s happened in the lives of your favourite Dear Canada girls in this special collection of eleven original heartwarming tales of Christmas.

Genres: Historical Fiction, Christmas, Canada, Diary, Childrens, Young Adult, Fiction

241 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[writer...]

#CanadianBookChallenge10 - canadian located + authored
Warm historical collection of stories featuring a variety of nationalities celebrating Christmas in Canada. Excellent descriptions of family traditions including worship, decorating, meals, and gift exchanging experienced across Canada in earlier eras.

[Twyla]

I liked all of the stories, so it was hard to pick a favourite, but if I had to it would most likely be either the first story about Fiona and how her sister had started to act differently, or the third story, about Devorah being upset about where she is spending Christmas, until she learns that the person she is staying with will be lonely when she leaves.

[Meghan]

Would have appreciated if Devorah and Sally’s stories were less about Christmas and more about Hanukkah.

[Olli]

Great book! I loved all the characters except a few that I won't go into great detail about. Overall an amazing book.

[Molly]

This entire series is a wonderful way to learn history or teach it to adolescents. I find today's generations seem to recall more when they learn through other people (pop songs, celebrity gossip, etc.), so what better way to teach history than through someone else's perspective? Yes, "authentic" diaries would be "better", but would the language really hold the modern student's attention? Did the diary writer know what WOULD be important in the context of history? Probably not.

[melanie]

I think my daughters are going to really like this book and it's simple, yet effective, delivery of history through personal accounts. The reason I read the book first was to see if there were any Santa Claus spoilers as my oldest is 7. (There are!) She reads at a much higher level but she doesn't need everything ruined for her just yet. I've hidden this book away until next Christmas. We will see what her views on Santa Claus are then. This year she can still believe.

[Hannah]

This book was overall great writing, but was somewhat hard to comprehend, as some of the books of the characters, I hadn’t read, so I didn’t know anything about them and their family, but they still talked about them.

[Annette]

I'm sure if you read all of the original stories for each character this book would have been easier to follow. I was surprised a few errors in the book where I found myself turning the pages back and forth to see if I was missing one because the sentence ended in the middle.
I few cute stories, not all of them concerning Christmas.

[Amber]

I love these books..

[Charmaine Puzey]

was fun to read