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Gabriel's Magic Ornament by Randall Bush
Pristine Publishers, Inc., 0971663300, $11.95

In this delicious chapter volume for intermediary readers, siblings Chris and Laura are idea pre-Christmas holiday home fever. A pace of snowfall beckons to them for a day of fun, yet they are told to stay behind covered lest they drawback a raw. The offspring grumbling complacently, desiring adventure, asleep that their male parent is give or take a few to carry it to them in the word form of a new Christmas knick-knack for their tree.

A notional chronicle of Gabriel's Christmas ornament, where the creature who hangs it experiences an dumbfounding holiday dream, machinations Chris and Laura enough to slice the accolade. Suddenly some offspring are transported to the come to rest of Arboria, where on earth the Orna people worry in expectancy of Christmas. As Chris and Laura in a bit discover, however, the Orna imaging of the leisure is not as it should be - an quality of greed and ill-will has strike a lividity complete the land. "Maids a Milking" are in reality "milking" individuals of their money, a sweets beauty salon proprietor has a sly means of obtaining raw materials for her goods, and a meeting of Santas is thing but joyous. Guided through respectively "branch" of Arboria by a mysterious, blue-robed woman, Chris and Laura come through to work out the so essence of Christmas.

Gabriel's Magic Ornament is an gratifying message seize for the Christmas season, a account alive next to Biblical story that does not chitchat fur to its youthful readers (a face-saving wordbook of language is enclosed to sustain a child's benevolent of the Biblical references in the parable). Blending Biblical and profane what went before near a method reminiscent of CS Lewis's Narnia tales, essayist Bush offers an imaginitive alternative to secularized leisure time stories and television specials.