It's Christmas at Green Apple Acres Farm! Charming tales with Christmas themes of animals on the farm are woven into each story's adventures. Award-winning author Cynthia A. Sudor weaves engaging tales of animals interacting with each other on the farm, learning to navigate life's twists and turns. Each story features a Christmas theme including a moral and lesson about life situations. After each story is a synopsis of the theme and lesson, interactive questions for the children to answer and inspiring quotations that support the theme. Beautiful color illustrations by award-winning illustrator Christina Wald. At the end of the book are photos of the real animals and people who are featured in the stories and how the author knows them. Many of the animals featured in the stories are from the author's farm. Book Three story themes: Selecting a Special Gift that Goes All Wrong, Believe in Miracles, Family Traditions, the Legend that Animals Talk at Midnight on Christmas Eve, and Helping Others, Even Strangers, in Need. Book One and Book Two received the Literacy Select Children's Book of the Year Award from Executive Women International (EWI), the first time an author has received this award twice. Hardback, 96 pages, target ages 8 to 12, younger children also enjoy the stories and beautiful illustrations "Christmas is a special season and the spirit of Christmas can live with us all year around if we allow it to continue. The themes in these stories are special to the season of Christmas, but the lessons are ones that children and adults can identify with at any time of the year." Cynthia A. Sudor, Author - from Amzon