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Hyman, Trina Schart

How Six Found Christmas

32 pp. | Holiday | October, 2025 | Trade ISBN 9780823461929 $15.99
Reissue (1969, Little)
(2) 1-3 In this reissue of a classic fable (rev. 12/69), a girl who has never heard of Christmas heads into a snowy forest to search for it. There she meets five animals who want to know, variously and aptly, how ­Christmas feels (the cat); smells (hound dog); looks (hawk); tastes (fox); and sounds (­mockingbird). When the questers come across an old green bottle, they decide that it “must be a Christmas” and disperse, disappointed. But the girl takes the bottle home, fills it with branches of red berries and green pine -- “and lo! It was Christmas!” Hyman’s lively prose reflects each animal’s preoccupations beautifully; her mostly monochromatic illustrations, with pops of color such as red for the girl’s stocking cap, are arresting and imbued with personality.
Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2025; December, 1969

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