TY  - BOOK
AU  - Duryea,Elizabeth
TI  - The long Christmas Eve 
AV  - PZ7.D9347 Lo
U1  - F DUR 
PY  - 1969///
CY  - Louisville, KY
PB  - American Printing House for the Blind, 
KW  - Christmas
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Wood-carving
KW  - Gifts
N1  - Contracted braille; Transcribed from: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1954
N2  - An engaging short story about a Bavarian family in Boston gives Christmas cheer, a couple of surprises and a touch of nostalgia for the old country in the new. On Beacon Hill, the 12 year old twins Karl and Maria Bayer, out window shopping with their father, see a wooden angel in a shop, very like the ones their woodcarving grandfather used to make in Oberammergau. They are separately inspired- the twins to buy the angel for their father and Mr. Bayer to get out his old carving tools and make one- and there is warm gaiety Christmas morning when they discover both angels in the creche
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