The Spirit of Christmas, Nancy Tillman
The Spirit of Christmas, Nancy Tillman
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The Spirit of Christmas

Author: Nancy Tillman

Narrator: Jim Dale

Unabridged: 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/29/2009

Synopsis

A celebration of the most magical holiday of the year, by the incomparable bestselling author Nancy Tillman.

Bells jingle, sleds dash through the snow, trees are topped with sparkling stars, and children everywhere dream of candy canes and presents. But the best gift of all—the most magical gift of the season—is when we spend Christmas with those we love.

Once again, this New York Times-bestselling author and artist has created a special, beautiful story that families will want to share year after year.

About Nancy Tillman

Nancy Tillman is the author and illustrator of the New York Times best-selling picture book On the Night You Were Born and its companion journal, The Wonder of You: A Book for Celebrating Baby's First Year. Her other books include Wherever You Are: My Love Will Find You, The Spirit of Christmas, and Tumford the Terrible. A former advertising executive, Tillman now writes and illustrates full-time. She lives in Tualatin, Oregon.

About Jim Dale

Jim Dale is known to millions of fans as the voice of Harry Potter, as he narrated all of the books in the Harry Potter series. An AudioFile Golden Voice, he has received numerous accolades for his audiobook work. He has won seven Audie Awards and two Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word Album for Children (for Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire in 2000 and for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in 2007). He also holds two Guinness World Records: one for having created and recorded 134 different character voices for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and one for occupying the first six places in the Top Ten Audiobooks of America 2005.  Dale’s other audiobook credits include A Christmas Carol, Peter Pan, James Herriot’s Treasury for Children, and Around the World in Eighty Days. Dale is also a stage and screen actor, well-known in Britain for his appearances in the Carry On films. He won the 1980 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah

Though I like the illustrations and the board book format this not a book I would actually purchase. There's not really a story, it reads more like the inside of a greeting card. The words aren't bad, they are full of the "warm and fuzzy" tidings of the season but I, myself prefer an actual story. T......more

Goodreads review by Nikki

This book is perfect. This is the book I pull out and beg my kids to read with me...even though they are “too old” for picture books...even though I somehow ran out of time during Christmas and ended up reading it around New Years...even though my voice cracks every time I read, “And so then, my dar......more

Goodreads review by Anita

Nice pictures, rhyming, a story about love for your child.......more

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