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Author Greene, Ellin, 1927-2018.

Title The legend of the Christmas rose / [written by] Selma Lagerlof ; retold by Ellin Greene ; with illustrations by Charles Mikolaycak.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Holiday House, c1990.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Nettels Everybody Holiday Book  E GREENE    ---  Available
 Pittsburg 1st Fl Juvenile Non-Fiction  J 398.2 Gre    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Note "This retelling is adapted from Selma Lagerlof's The legend of the Christmas rose, published in Good housekeeping, December 1907"--Author's note.
Summary In hope of getting her husband pardoned, an exiled outlaw's wife agrees to reveal to an old monk the miracle in Goinge Forest, where every Christmas Eve a beautiful garden blooms in remembrance of the birth of the Christ Child.
Subject Folklore -- Sweden.
Christmas -- Folklore.
Added Author Mikolaycak, Charles, illustrator.
Lagerlof, Selma, 1858-1940. Legenden om julrosorna.
ISBN 0823408213

 
    
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