A Child's-Eye Account of Christmas With Mom
A Child's-Eye Account of Christmas With Mom
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Christmas at that age is mostly sensory, and this account stays at that level rather than reaching for meaning.
What it records: the smells coming out of the kitchen, the coat that always smelled like outside, the hand that turned up every time the room got too big. Both names are printed in. That last detail is the one doing the work — it is a description of what a mother is, arrived at without ever saying so. Hardcover.
Books given to mothers tend to be kept out of duty. This is one of the few that gets kept for its own sake, because it tells her something she was too tired at the time to notice. Do not wrap it with the rest; give it separately, once the house is quiet.