gifts

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gifts

Morris the artist

2003
Morris buys a set of paints as a birthday present for Benjamin, but he wants to keep them for himself.

Rosie's roses

2003
Rosie has four roses for her aunt's birthday, but after four animals "borrow" one, her gift is reduced to a rainbow ribbon.

Hannah and the whistling teakettle

2000
When she goes to visit her grandparents in the Bronx, Hannah wonders if her grandmother will consider the whistling tea kettle Hannah is bringing a necessity worth keeping when it helps to foil a robbery.

A little shopping

1998
Rosie, Lily, and Tess, three cousins who are living together with their aunt, decide to make a miniature flower shop just like Aunt Lucy's real shop, and give it to her as a gift.

The secret Santa

2002
Nancy's third-grade class has a secret Santa exchange; but when Nancy gives her gift, she receives nothing in return.

Herbie Jones and the class gift

1987
Disaster strikes when Annabelle trusts Herbie Jones and Raymond with the job of picking up the class's gift to their teacher.

Gifts to make for your favorite grownup

1996
Provides instructions for making fifty crafts suitable as gifts for adults.

The gift of the Magi

2006
An illustrated version of O. Henry's tale about a young husband and wife who give up their most treasured possessions to buy each other Christmas gifts, which ends in an ironic twist that makes their sacrifices poignant.

What child is this?

a Christmas story
1997
When seventeen-year-old Matt tries to find a family for an eight-year-old foster child, his attempt backfires and both of them need a Christmas miracle.

The gift of the magi

1997
A husband and wife sacrifice treasured possessions in order to buy each other Christmas presents.

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