The Christmas Remembering

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)><em>The Christmas Remembering</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)> is an exciting and heart-warming Christmastime adventure about a little boy called Timmy who runs away from home with his favourite Christmas tree decorations to save them from being thrown into the dustbin by his stepmother. Timmy's stepmother came to live with him and his daddy after Timmy's mummy died. Timmy's stepmother loves Timmy and does not mean to be unkind but she does not understand the importance of these decorations. As the adventure moves through moments of magic and romance and danger and daring and heartache and happiness towards a heart-warming conclusion where all ends well the importance of these decorations and the reason for Timmy's brave attempt to rescue them are revealed.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(33 37 41 1)>This is a story for any child and certainly children who are bereaved or who know a child who is. As the adventure unfolds the reassuring and recuring messages about child bereavement provide children and families with opportunities to pause and talk about loss and grief. It can be read to younger children; older children can read it for themselves. As well as being read by children and families this story can be used by counsellors therapists schoolteachers and librarians.</span></p><p></p>