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Christmas Day in the Morning: Awakening the Joy of Christmas Hardcover – October 6, 2020

by Pearl S. Buck (Author)
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The true joy of Christmas is to love and to awaken love.

"Christmas Day in the Morning is as gorgeous as the day it celebrates. And unlike so many other presents, the real gift isn't the book itself, it's the simple, pure message. If you give anything this year, give love."
--Jason F. Wright, New York Times best-selling author of Christmas Jars

In this adaptation of "Christmas Day in the Morning" Rob looks back on his boyhood and remembers giving an unusual gift of self a gift that filled him with Christmas joy. Now, fifty years later, Rob realizes he can still give a gift from his heart.

The original Pearl S. Buck story, published in Collier s magazine in 1955, concludes with the older Rob writing a letter of gratitude and love to his wife. As he does, Christmas joy is awakened in him once again.

The final pages of this book provide a place for you to write your own letter of gratitude and love a letter that will naturally be included when you give this book to a family member, neighbor, or friend. As you do, you may experience what Rob learned as a boy, and then again as a man: the gifts most likely to rekindle Christmas joy are not just the presents we give with our hands, but the gratitude we express from our hearts.
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  1. Reading age
    6 - 9 years
  2. Print length
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  3. Language
    English
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    Preschool and up
  5. Dimensions
    5.75 x 0.5 x 7.75 inches
  6. Publisher
    Shadow Mountain
  7. Publication date
    October 6, 2020
  8. ISBN-10
    1629727962
  9. ISBN-13
    978-1629727967
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Christmas Day in the Morning is as gorgeous as the day it celebrates. And unlike so many other presents, the real gift isn't the book itself, it's the simple, pure message. If you give anything this year, give love. ----Jason F. Wright, New York Times best-selling author of Christmas Jars

About the Author

Pearl S. Buck wrote Christmas Day in the Morning in 1955. She was a prolific author and earned a Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Good Earth. The daughter of Christian missionaries, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in China. Upon her return to the United States in 1935, she became an advocate for women's rights and racial equality.

David Warner received his PhD in theatre and film from Brigham Young University and has worked with the Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra on Temple Square for more than a decade.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Shadow Mountain (October 6, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 48 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1629727962
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1629727967
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 6 - 9 years
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ Preschool and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 0.018 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 0.5 x 7.75 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia. Her parents were Southern Presbyterian missionaries, most often stationed in China, and from childhood, Pearl spoke both English and Chinese. She returned to China shortly after graduation from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1914, and the following year, she met a young agricultural economist named John Lossing Buck. They married in 1917, and immediately moved to Nanhsuchou in rural Anhwei province. In this impoverished community, Pearl Buck gathered the material that she would later use in The Good Earth and other stories of China.

Pearl began to publish stories and essays in the 1920s, in magazines such as The Nation, The Chinese Recorder, Asia, and The Atlantic Monthly. Her first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published by the John Day Company in 1930. John Day's publisher, Richard Walsh, would eventually become Pearl's second husband, in 1935, after both received divorces.

In 1931, John Day published Pearl's second novel, The Good Earth. This became the bestselling book of both 1931 and 1932, won the Pulitzer Prize and the Howells Medal in 1935, and would be adapted as a major MGM film in 1937. Other novels and books of nonfiction quickly followed. In 1938, less than a decade after her first book had appeared, Pearl won the Nobel Prize in literature, the first American woman to do so. By the time of her death in 1973, Pearl had published more than seventy books: novels, collections of stories, biography and autobiography, poetry, drama, children's literature, and translations from the Chinese. She is buried at Green Hills Farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

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❄𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐉𝐨𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐁𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐫❄𝐈𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬? 𝐌𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐞......𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎 𝐬𝐨 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐧𝐨𝐭.𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭, 𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭! 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬. 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠.🎄𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲🎄𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐚𝐬🎄𝐖𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞🎄𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐛𝐲 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐰 𝐌𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰. 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐦𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐨𝐰𝐧.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2021
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We live this story!! We wanted to share it with our kids.
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Becky
4.0 out of 5 stars Meaningful gift book
Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2020
I have heard this short holiday story many times before, but I didn’t know it was written by Pearl S. Buck. It is the heartwarming story of a meaningful Christmas gift of selfless service. Rob sneaks out of bed extra early as a surprise on Christmas morning and does the farm chores before his dad wakes up. Then 50 years later, on another early Christmas morning, he is reflecting on his love for his wife and writes her a letter of appreciation and love. There are a few lined pages at the back of the book for you to write your own message of gratitude and love for the person you give the book to. I think it is a beautiful idea and has the potential for becoming a priceless gift that will be cherished through the years. Thanks to the publisher for an ARC to use for my review.
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Betsy
5.0 out of 5 stars A stocking stuffer or year around gift!
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2020
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This is a beautiful story!
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Silent E
3.0 out of 5 stars Not really a great kids book
Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2021
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This was a nice story and I enjoyed reading about the little boy serving his father as a Christmas gift. But it ends with an old man writing a letter to his wife and it’s not quite an ending that speaks to kids.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful book that can become a beautiful gift
Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2020
I’m still trying to determine what Christmas is going to look like this year. It hit me today that there won’t be a Mormon Tabernacle Choir concert. And that makes me so sad. I’m sure there will still be fun, family, love and the Savior’s light. But…some things are so hard.

I’m grateful that there are still things happening. Like this book. It’s a tradition every year for me to review the book that came from the last’s year’s concert. And this little book arrived just in time to brighten my spirits.

I love the way this familiar story by Pearl S Buck is told with beautiful illustrations. But the thing I loved the very most is the addition of the grown man to the story. How would he have felt. What would he have done. It’s just beautiful to think about.

There’s also a song that was sung at last year’s concert. It’s interspersed throughout the story. I just love Christmas music! It made me want to watch the broadcast, I can’t wait for it!

And the space for a thank you note of your own at the end is a perfect touch. It makes this little book a personalized gift. And I love that!

I was sent a copy of Christmas Day in the Morning as a gift from the publisher. All opinions are my own.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Very short and not all that unique.
Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2021
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Not worth $12! Very predictable and so short!
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5.0 out of 5 stars This is one of my Favorite Christmas Stories! A must give Gift this Christmas!
Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2020
I loved this short little Christmas Book, Christmas Day in the Morning Awakening The Joy of Christmas. Once I started reading, I was absolutely thrilled! The story told in this book is one of my favorite Christmas stories. It tells of a boy named Rob who learns the gift of giving selfless service to his father one Christmas morning. He experiences the great joy that comes from serving someone else. This particular story is so touching to me because of Rob doing something so special for his father. I loved my father dearly and wished he was still here. It's been almost ten years since his passing, and I miss him so. I think back to my own experiences of doing acts of service for my father and mother. There is no more important lesson to teach our children and grandchildren than to think of others first by doing loving acts of service and letting go of being overly concerned about ourselves.

I highly recommend getting this book as a gift for your children and grandchildren. Buy a copy for yourself and read it on Christmas Eve and make it a new tradition in your family. I can't wait to share this story with my family again in this new format with such lovely pictures and the addition of the song and the final pages where we as a family can write down things we are grateful for.
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Monica
4.0 out of 5 stars Timeless Story That Teaches So Many Lessons
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2020
I have always loved this story! I read it to my children every Christmas...on a typed sheet of paper. I can't tell you how excited I am to now have this story in a beautiful hardcover book. The story teaches love, caring, kindness, and the joy of selfless giving. I love the photos that accompany the story, the nice, thick paper, and the lined section at the end where you get to write your own letter of gratitude and love. I can't wait to read it to my children from this beautiful book!
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