Status Updates From A Tin Train Christmas:

After two very long books I turn to a short story by the author of the Growing Season books that I have been enjoying. We met Horace Schermann at the beginning of the first book in the series at which time he was 90. Now we go back in time to the depression when Horace is 6 and his brother Wilbur is 8. Both boys really want a tin train they have seen in a window, but...it is the depression.

I liked the simplicity of this book. The story is straightforward and captures Christmas in a simpler time.