The Christmas Anna Angel
Author:
Ruth Sawyer
Illustrator:
Kate Seredy 
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Foreword:
Sylvester Vigilante
Publication:
1944 by Viking Press Inc
Genre:
Fiction, Holiday, Read Aloud
Pages:
48
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This is Anna Kester's story. She is a friend of Ruth Sawyer, and she avers that this tells what happened to her when she was a little girl on a Hungarian farm, many years ago.
Anna told it to Ruth Sawyer all just as it happened in her own mind, and Ruth Sawyer knew how to make it into a story.
Of course, when Kate Seredy read the story, she knew just how everything looked as it happened, and she made the pictures.
So Anna's dream comes true again, years after, in this beautiful book.
Both Ruth Sawyer and Kate Seredy have won the Newbery Medal.
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Ruth Sawyer
1880 - 1970American
Ruth Sawyer Durand was born in Boston and was educated at private schools there and in New York, and at Columbia University. She has spent most of h... See more
Kate Seredy
(Pronounced SHAIR a dee)1899 - 1975
Hungarian-American
Kate Seredy was born and brought up in Hungary. Her father was a high school teacher in Budapest, very much interested in art, and young Kate began ... See more
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The Christmas Anna Angel
Reviewed by Sherry Early
This book is absolutely beautiful. The story is great, but the text combined with the illustrations make the book a children’s masterpiece. Miklos and his older sister Anna are growing up on a farm during the later years of World War I. The book begins on St. Nicholas Eve, “the day that begins the Christmas time,” and ends on Christmas Day. In between, Anna tells Miklos about Christmases past, before the war . . .
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