The Christmas Child & The Wonderful Life

e-artnow presents the Christmas Specials Series. We have selected the greatest Christmas novels, short stories and fairy tales for all those who want to keep the spirit of Christmas alive with a heartwarming tale. 'The Christmas Child' - Miss Priscilla Perry is an old lady who lives on a farm with her servant Nathan and her adopted niece Rhoda, young woman about twenty years old. When Aunt Priscilla's real niece dies she is forced to take in her car a little six-year-old girl name Joan. Rhoda grows fond of Joan and they form a strong bond. At Christmas Rhoda sits Joan and tells her of something she does every year, and that is to go into the barn and see if the Christ Child has come to stay in their manger. But course, that never happens. Until one year... 'The Wonderful Life' tells the story of the child's life of Jesus Christ. It is a charming story of the life and death of our Lord.

Hesba Stretton was the pen name of Sarah Smith (1832-1911), an English writer of children's books. Her moral tales and semi-religious stories, chiefly for the young, were printed in huge numbers. She became a regular contributor to Household Words and All the Year Round under Charles Dickens's editorship.