Re: Cooney/Christmas Book/What Child Is This?

[Kathleen Fencil <tkfencil@MCN.NET>]

I too just happened to finish this book on Sunday.  I had bought it in June
when I heard Cooney speak in Dillon, MT.  I waited to read it now because
she had mentioned it was going to be a TV movie, I thought this year, but
have heard nothing more about it.  If anyone knows I would be interested.
Cooney plays the organ at her church and mentioned she wrote the story sort
of a gratitude for the joys that has brought.  Perhaps as these things go
the TV adaptation will come a year from now.

Sincerely,

Kathy Fencil
Kathleen H. Fencil              Washington Elementary School
1220 Poly Drive                 1044 Cook Ave.
Billings, MT 59102-1715         Billings, MT 59102
tkfencil@mcn.net                fencilk@billings.k12.mt.us

>Seasons Greetings,
>  In honor of Black Friday I read What Child Is This by Caroline Cooney.
>This wonderful Christmas story is outlined by lines taken from Christmas
>carols, all listed in the source notes. With mature shades of Robinson's
>Best Christmas Pageant Ever, it has a fresh appeal and I haven't cried
>so easily in ages. This is the story of a male teenage foster child in a
>struggling home and parallel stories of the affluent classmate with the
>corporate surface personality father, the couple who lost a sickly
>infant,  the classmate son of the warm fuzzy local businessman and the
>ties that bring them all together, particuliarly in a younger foster
>child's dilemma. The setting includes the snowy Christmas steepled
>church of so many seasonal cards and the ending is happy.
>        I am thinking this book best for 5th and up because of its
>emotional pull, but I'd love to hear from others about the best ways
>found to share it as one special holiday book. I think a play or a made
>for television movie would also work. The carol lines cry out to be
>sung in the background. They also make good academic punch bowl trivia!
>Joy to you, and to you your wassail, too.
>Paula Brown, Librarian
>The Episcopal Academy
>pbrown@ea.pvt.k12.pa.us
>
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Kathleen H. Fencil              Washington Elementary School
1220 Poly Drive                 1044 Cook Ave.
Billings, MT 59102-1715         Billings, MT 59102
tkfencil@mcn.net                fencilk@billings.k12.mt.us

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