The Christmas Shoes

The Christmas Shoes
by Donna Vanliere

The Christmas Shoes
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Author: Donna Vanliere
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2001-11-09
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 144
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

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Summary: 5 Stars

Christmas Shoes sends an important message to people of all ages on what Christmas is really about. Before reading this book, I thought that Christmas was just when Jesus was born and brought happiness to people around the world. There are many views on what Christmas is, but this book gave me a different idea about how lucky I am and how unfortunate other people are. This book tells two different stories. One of the stories is about a third grader named Nathan whose mom had ovarian cancer and was getting sicker every day. Maggie, Nathan's mom, had a loving husband and two well-behaved children. It was Christmas morning when Maggie died. It doesn't seem right for a woman with a good life to die on Christmas day, but this was something that made me realize that I am fortunate to have a healthy family. The other part of the story was about a man named Robert who was very into making himself and his family a living. He thought that bringing in money and providing was the only thing that he had to do. Robert got upset and didn't understand when his wife Kate said she was leaving him. After work one day, Nathan and Robert met in a store when Nathan was buying his mom shoes for one of her last nights alive. Robert and Nathan didn't know that they were both helping each other. Robert was waiting in line to buy his gifts for his family, and Nathan was in front of him trying to buy red CHRISTMAS SHOES for his mother when he came out short of money. Robert gave Nathan the extra money to pay for the shoes. Robert realized how he loved his family and needed to stay home with his wife and children after experiencing a kid trying to buy his dying mom shoes. Nathan didn't tell the whole story except that he wanted his mom to look pretty when she went to heaven on Christmas night. This book is a touching story that is great for anyone with a heart.

Summary of The Christmas Shoes

Sometimes, the things that can change your life will cross your path in one instant-and then, in a fleeting moment, they're gone. But if you open your eyes, and watch carefully, you will believe....

Robert is a successful attorney who has everything in life-and nothing at all. Focused on professional achievement and material rewards, Robert is on the brink of losing his marriage. He has lost sight of his wife, Kate, their two daughters, and ultimately himself. Eight year old Nathan has a beloved mother, Maggie, whom he is losing to cancer. But Nathan and his family are building a simple yet full life, and struggling to hold onto every moment they have together. A chance meeting on Christmas Even brings Robert and Nathan together-he is shopping for a family he hardly knows and Nathan is shopping for a mother he is soon to lose. In this one encounter, their lives are forever altered as Robert learns an important lesson: sometimes the smallest things can make all the difference. The Christmas Shoes is a universal story of the deeper meaning of serendipity, a tale of our shared humanity, and of how a power greater than ourselves can shape, and even save, our lives.

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